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February 03, 2014 12:00 AM

Top-performing endowments

Endowments with more than $1 billion in assets ranked by one-year return as of June 30, 2013. Assets are in millions.

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    RankEndowmentReturnAssets
    1Bowdoin College16.0%$1,039
    2UCLA Foundation15.2%$1,527
    3Williams College14.8%$1,997
    4University of Pennsylvania14.4%$7,741
    5University of Oklahoma14.3%$1,324
    6Duke University13.5%$6,041
    7University of Washington13.5%$2,347
    8University of Virginia13.4%$5,167
    9University of Illinois13.1%$1,926
    11Amherst College13.0%$1,824
    10University of California13.0%$6,377
    12University of Nebraska12.9%$1,339
    13University of California, Berkeley12.8%$1,243
    14Brown University12.6%$2,670
    15University of Missouri System12.6%$1,260
    16University of Richmond12.6%$2,023
    17University of Iowa12.5%$1,095
    18Yale University12.5%$20,780
    19Dartmouth College12.1%$3,734
    20Michigan State University12.1%$1,637
    21Stanford University12.1%$18,689
    22Tulane University12.1%$1,048
    23University of North Carolina Chapel Hill12.1%$2,381
    24University of Cincinnati12.0%$1,046
    25University of Rochester12.0%$1,731
    26Swarthmore College11.9%$1,635
    27Georgetown University11.8%$1,286
    28University of Minnesota111.8%$2,757
    29University of Notre Dame11.8%$6,856
    30Princeton University11.7%$18,200
    31Northwestern University211.6%$7,883
    32Ohio State University11.6%$3,149
    33Berea College11.5%$1,012
    34Columbia University11.5%$8,198
    35Cornell University11.4%$5,272
    36Harvard University11.3%$32,334
    37Pennsylvania State University11.3%$2,957
    38Massachusetts Institute of Technology11.1%$11,006
    39Kansas University10.9%$1,289
    40University of Michigan10.8%$8,382
    41Washington University - St. Louis10.5%$5,652
    42Carnegie Mellon University10.1%$1,371
    43Georgia Tech9.9%$1,715
    44Vanderbilt University9.3%$3,673
    45New York University29.1%$2,949
    46University of Florida9.1%$1,360
    47University of Texas System29.0%$20,448
    48University of Chicago6.6%$6,669
    Notes: 1 Data are as of Sept. 30, 2013; 2 Data are as of Aug. 31, 2013.
    Sources: 2013 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments (assets); Pensions & Investments' data from financial reports (returns)

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