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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Rank	Endowment	Return	Assets
1	Bowdoin College	16.0%	$1,039
2	UCLA Foundation	15.2%	$1,527
3	Williams College	14.8%	$1,997
4	University of Pennsylvania	14.4%	$7,741
5	University of Oklahoma	14.3%	$1,324
6	Duke University	13.5%	$6,041
7	University of Washington	13.5%	$2,347
8	University of Virginia	13.4%	$5,167
9	University of Illinois	13.1%	$1,926
11	Amherst College	13.0%	$1,824
10	University of California	13.0%	$6,377
12	University of Nebraska	12.9%	$1,339
13	University of California, Berkeley	12.8%	$1,243
14	Brown University	12.6%	$2,670
15	University of Missouri System	12.6%	$1,260
16	University of Richmond	12.6%	$2,023
17	University of Iowa	12.5%	$1,095
18	Yale University	12.5%	$20,780
19	Dartmouth College	12.1%	$3,734
20	Michigan State University	12.1%	$1,637
21	Stanford University	12.1%	$18,689
22	Tulane University	12.1%	$1,048
23	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	12.1%	$2,381
24	University of Cincinnati	12.0%	$1,046
25	University of Rochester	12.0%	$1,731
26	Swarthmore College	11.9%	$1,635
27	Georgetown University	11.8%	$1,286
28	University of Minnesota1	11.8%	$2,757
29	University of Notre Dame	11.8%	$6,856
30	Princeton University	11.7%	$18,200
31	Northwestern University2	11.6%	$7,883
32	Ohio State University	11.6%	$3,149
33	Berea College	11.5%	$1,012
34	Columbia University	11.5%	$8,198
35	Cornell University	11.4%	$5,272
36	Harvard University	11.3%	$32,334
37	Pennsylvania State University	11.3%	$2,957
38	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11.1%	$11,006
39	Kansas University	10.9%	$1,289
40	University of Michigan	10.8%	$8,382
41	Washington University - St. Louis	10.5%	$5,652
42	Carnegie Mellon University	10.1%	$1,371
43	Georgia Tech	9.9%	$1,715
44	Vanderbilt University	9.3%	$3,673
45	New York University2	9.1%	$2,949
46	University of Florida	9.1%	$1,360
47	University of Texas System2	9.0%	$20,448
48	University of Chicago	6.6%	$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)