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
