Check out the average annual returns of the U.S. universities with the country's largest endowments.
The Best Of The Biggest !
"And you can bet that most of these schools have shifted some of their portfolios into Oil commodities ."
Yale University
average annual return last ten years
16.8%
2004 Endowment: $12,747,150,000
1994 Endowment: $3,529,000,000
Harvard University
average annual return last ten years
15.9%
2004 Endowment: $22,143,649,000
1994 Endowment: $6,201,220,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
average annual return last ten years
15.7%
2004 Endowment: $5,865,212,000
1994 Endowment: $1,777,777,000
Princeton University
average annual return last ten years
15.5%
2004 Endowment: $9,928,200,000
1994 Endowment: $3,446,818,000
Stanford University
average annual return last ten years
11.7%
2004 Endowment: $4,767,466,000
1994 Endowment: $1,750,203,000
University of California (entire system)
average annual return last ten years
11.7%
2004 Endowment: $4,767,466,000
1994 Endowment: $1,750,203,000
Columbia University
average annual return last ten years
11.6%
2004 Endowment: $4,493,085,000
1994 Endowment: $1,918,l48,000
University of Texas
(entire system, including Texas A&M)
average annual return last ten years
9.8%
2004 Endowment: $14,709,734,000
1994 Endowment: $6,605,022,000
