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56 Colleges Have Endowments Topping $1B

 

By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer Mon Jan 23, 12:34 AM ET

 

The number of North American colleges with endowments topping $1 billion has jumped to 56, a new study says, with nine schools joining the elite club in what was an average year for university investments overall.

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Harvard remained the richest, with $25.5 billion, followed by Yale with $15.2 billion...

 

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  • 2 months later...

I figured that this is the best place for this post since it is really the only one that covers grants and donations to the University of Cincinnati.  So here is the info:

 

UC gets $289M software gift

Programs give students - and company - an edge

BY LORI KURTZMAN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

www.enquirer.com

 

CINCINNATI - It's not that Roy Eckart, the interim dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, was unaware his school was receiving lots of free software from a Plano, Texas, firm.

 

He just didn't know how much - until he looked at the gifts over the past three years and added up the commercial value of all that engineering software from UGS Corp.

 

The total?

 

$289,291,696...

 

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  • 4 months later...

Ohio's state schools cost too damn much. 9333.00 a year for tuition is insane. Looking at my bill makes me want to vomit.

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