Higher education institutions with largest endowments, fiscal 2019

With an endowment of $39,4 billion, Harvard University remains the institution with the largest fund.

Harvard University continues to have the largest endowment of any U.S. higher education institution.

The 2019 NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments says that for fiscal 2019, Harvard's endowment was valued at $39.4 billion—more than $8.4 billion larger than the next largest endowment—nearly $31 billion at the University of Texas System.

The only other institution with an endowment of more than $30 billion is Yale University.

Data from 774 U.S. colleges and universities for the  NACUBO-TIAA Study found that endowments returned an average of 5.3% for the fiscal 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) compared with 8.2 percent growth percent for the 2018 fiscal year.

Here are the 10 higher-education institutions that had the largest endowments in fiscal 2019.

Harvard University                                     $39,427,896,000

The University of Texas System              $30,958,239,000

Yale University                                             $30,314,800,000

Stanford University                                     $27,699,834,000

Princeton University                                    $26,116,022,000

Massachusetts Institute of Technology     $17,569,328,000

University of Pennsylvania                         $14,649,761,000

The Texas A&M University System            $13,514,527,000

University of Michigan                                 $12,448,816,00

University of California                                 $11,797,543,000

About the Author

Mike Kennedy

Senior Editor

Mike Kennedy has been writing about education for American School & University since 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.

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