Endowment, per School

In the new NIL era, the wealth of the school’s alums/fans becomes a very important factor.

Here is the list of all of the P4’s Endowments, including Notre Dame, from Highest to Lowest

Texas- $44.97 Billion

Standford- $36.50 Billion

Texas A&M- $19.26 Billion
Michigan- $17.88 Billion
Notre Dame- $16.62 Billion
Northwestern- $13.70 Billion
Duke- $13.24 Billion

Virginia- $9.8 Billion
Vanderbilt- $9.6 Billion

Southern California- $7.47 Billion
Ohio State- $7.39 Billion

Minnesota- $5.50 Billion
Pittsburgh- $5.49 Billion
North Carolina- $5.20 Billion

Washington- $4.94 Billion
Pennsylvania State- $4.44 Billion
Michigan State- $4.10 Billion

California, Los Angeles- $3.88 Billion
Wisconsin- $3.84 Billion
Purdue- $3.80 Billion
Indiana- $3.56 Billion
Illinois- $3.38 Billion
Boston College- $3.30 Billion
Iowa- $3.26 Billion
Brigham Young- $3.10 Billion

Georgia Tech- $2.95 Billion
California, Berkeley- $2.92 Billion
Texas Tech- $2.72 Billion (Includes $1 Billion approved by November 2023 vote)
Texas Christian- $2.60 Billion
Kansas- $2.36 Billion
Florida- $2.34 Billion
Nebraska- $2.27 Billion
Missouri- $2.24 Billion
Colorado- $2.10 Billion
Maryland- $2.10 Billion
Houston- $2.05 Billion (Includes $1 Billion approved by November 2023 vote)
Southern Methodist- $2.04 Billion
North Carolina State- $2.03 Billion
Alabama- $2.01 Billion

Rutgers/ New Jersey- $1.99 Billion
Baylor- $1.97 Billion
Syracuse- $1.90 Billion
Wake Forest- $1.90 Billion
Georgia- $1.81 Billion
Kentucky- $1.81 Billion
Virginia Polytechnic- $1.80 Billion
Oklahoma State- $1.71 Billion
Oklahoma- $1.67 Billion
Iowa State- $1.64 Billion
Utah- $1.64 Billion
Tennessee- $1.60 Billion

Arkansas- $1.52 Billion
Oregon- $1.50 Billion
Arizona State- $1.47 Billion
Miami $1.36 Billion
Cincinnati- $1.35 Billion
Louisiana State- $1.10 Billion
Auburn- $1.08 Billion
Clemson- $1.02 Billion
Arizona- $1.29 Billion

South Carolina- $952 Million
Kansas State- $950 Million
Florida Stare- $947 Million
Louisville- $918 Million
West Virginia- $844 Million
Mississippi- $836 Million
Mississippi State- $709 Million

Central Florida- $230 Million

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You have to understand some of these universities like UT and A&M have multiple campuses. UH is system school, not on the scale as them. $44B looks impressive until you toss in the other campuses and A&M the same

That’s not why UT’s is inflated, UH also has multiple Universities in it’s system and their Endowment contributions are run my the Main Campus.

UT and TAMU have ballooned their Endowment via Oil Royalties from The PUF

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44 billion is impressive no matter how you slice it.

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Mine is bigger than yours :rofl:

Thank you, PUF

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If the point is a university needs a rich endowment to have a rich NIL, I do not agree. They are two completely different funds. You can have a rich endowment and a rich NIL, but you can also have an average endowment and a rich NIL.

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The Final Four, in this year’s playoff, featured schools with an Endowment of

$44.97 Billion
$7.39 Billion
$4.44 Billion
&
$16.62 Billion

So, there is some correlation and that gap will continue to grow.

im surprised we’re higher than SMU and that they are that low. I thought they were oozing money?

A billion of ours is from the state, per that last vote.

They are Private, so they do not get any help from the state

how much and how often do we get money from the state? it cant be a Bill a year is it? I didnt follow it that closely but did vote for it.

still surprised SMU is as low as they are

Endowment wise we can hold our own.

NIL honeypot money wise, it’s a different story.

Those are DIFFERENT pots of money. Never equate one with the other. That’s why people can’t assume that Stanford will ever become a big NIL power. Endowment AIN’T NIL.

We don’t have the oil baron sugar daddies that SMU has that would enable us to to fill our own NIL honeypot to the same degree that they can, currently.

Consider this. Rice has an almost $8 billion endowment. Doesn’t mean that they’ll ever be an NIL power on par with USC or Ohio State.

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Some on here said that Bama uses their endowment for football.

Yea I don’t understand if there is any meaningful correlation between endowment and nil. Don’t know what the OP is suggesting.

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He is obsessed with the idea that Stanford, because of its endowment, could be a big NIL player “if they wanted to be.”

:roll_eyes:

Whatever.

Given how small their fan base is, how low their attendance and viewership are, and just how little most of their alums care about football and basketball, that’s a very INVALID assumption.

If their alums and money people don’t want it, and it appears that they don’t, then it isn’t going to happen.

High endowment doesn’t equate to big NIL.

If it did then Rice would be an NIL super power.

They are another school which, like Stanford, apparently “doesn’t want it.”

They DO…but not for NIL.

They use it to fund scholarships for athletes via the “Crimson Tide Foundation.”

NIL is WHOLLY separate.

NEVER equate or correlate one with the other.

Rice doesn’t, and never has, cared about athletics.

Funny how, out of the 4 SWC rejects, the ONLY one yet to find a way back to a Power Conference is the most respected academic institution and most well off of the bunch.

Rice is C-R-A-P

Stanford hasn’t cared about football or basketball in the NIL era.

If they did, then they’d put more effort into/have more success with NIL.

They don’t/they haven’t.

And unless/until either a) their alums care more (not likely) or b) they get a sugar daddy, that isn’t likely to change.

Better hope that Harvard doesn’t get serious with football.

$53.2 billion as of October 2024

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They have insane Olympic sports.