list of US colleges and universities by endowment (from Answers.com)
This list of US colleges and universities by endowment contains the 55 universities in the United States that have an endowment of at least 1 billion US dollars (at fiscal year-end 2005).
Rank Institution Endowment
1 Harvard University $25.474B
2 Yale University $15.225B
3 Stanford University $12.205B
4 *University of Texas System $11.611B
5 Princeton University $11.207B
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $6.712B
7 *University of California System $5.222B
8 Columbia University $5.191B
9 * Texas A&M System $4.964B
10 University of Michigan $4.931B
11 Emory University $4.376B
12 University of Pennsylvania $4.370B
13 Washington University (St. Louis) $4.268B
14 Northwestern University $4.215B
15 University of Chicago $4.138B
16 Duke University $3.826B
17 Cornell University $3.777B
18 University of Notre Dame $3.650B
19 Rice University $3.611B
20 University of Virginia $3.219B
21 University of Southern California $2.746B
22 Dartmouth College $2.714B
23 Vanderbilt University $2.628B
24 Johns Hopkins University $2.177B
25 University of Minnesota $1.969B
26 Brown University $1.844B
27 Ohio State University $1.726B
28 Rockefeller University $1.557B
29 New York University $1.548B
30 University of Pittsburgh $1.530B
31 Case Western Reserve University $1.516B
32 University of Washington $1.490B
33 UNC Chapel Hill $1.486B
35 California Institute of Technology $1.418B
35 Grinnell College $1.390B
36 University of Rochester $1.370B
37 Williams College $1.348B
38 Purdue University $1.341B
39 Michigan State University $1.325B
40 Wellesley College $1.276B
41 Boston College $1.270B
42 University of Richmond $1.208B
43 Penn State University $1.175B
44 Swarthmore College $1.164B
45 Amherst College $1.155B
46 Yeshiva University $1.149B
47 *University of Illinois $1.148B
48 *University of Wisconsin $1.125B
49 *Indiana University $1.107B
50 University of Delaware $1.077B
51 *University of Nebraska $1.042B
52 Tufts University $1.040B
53 Smith College $1.036B
54 Texas Christian University $1.033B
55 University of Cincinnati $1.032B
56 Baylor College of Medicine $1.008B
*Denotes the aggregate of a cluster of institutions (university system).
References
Yale Posts Highest Endowment Returns, Topping Stanford, Harvard (November 22, 2005). Bloomberg.com.
2005 National Association of College and University Business Officers Endowment Study (PDF)