2012 Endowment Report

[vu72]

Found this site with 2012 and 2011 endowment figures.  Interestingly enough, Valpo was virtually unchanged from 2011 and stood at $163,530,000 in 2012. This ranked 302nd.

Against what could be considered our competition we continue to do well.

We were ranked ahead of schools like Xavier, Drake, Butler and Evansville. 

I couldn't even find some of the Horizon League schools but did notice Oakland was ranked 547th at $54,980,000.

Here is the site:

http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2012NCSEPublicTablesEndowmentMarketValuesRevisedFebruary42013.pdf

[valpotx]

Wiki has the endowments included, which are hopefully accurate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_League

[vu72]

Wiki has the endowments included, which are hopefully accurate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_League

This is old, at least two years.  Valpo is listed at 140 mil and the above report has us at 163 for the last two years.

[Dave_2010]

Wow...I would have never guessed that Valpo had a larger endowment than Butler. I guess our position as America's de facto National Lutheran University is a much bigger draw than being a large(r than Valpo) private school in a major city. Not to drag up an issue from another board, but (if true) this sort of thing is exactly why the school needs to maintain and make known its Lutheran identity. Butler is an outstanding school that has more students, is in a major city but still can't match our endowment b/c of a lack of (non-athletic) identity.

The other surprising number came from the Wikipedia page. I understand why UIC would have a huge endowment being in a major city and part of the U of I system. However, YSU's endowment (if correct) seems way out of whack for a commuter school in a severely economically depressed city like Youngstown.

[valpotx]

Someone should fix our page as well then :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University

According to Wiki, we are only 600 total students behind Butler, so they are not that much larger. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_University

Interesting to note that we seem to have a much larger campus size in acres than all of the schools you mentioned as well:

Xavier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_University

Evansville:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Evansville

Drake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_University