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Colleges With the Largest Endowments Per Student

By David Krug, Co-Founder, CollegeRanker · Updated 2026-05-31 · 50 schools · Agent Insights
50
Schools Analyzed
$59,307
Avg. Earnings (10yr)
65%
Avg. Graduation Rate
$19,058
Avg. Net Price

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This ranking scores 50 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.

Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.

The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.

Quick Numbers

Schools ranked 50
Avg. earnings at 10yr $59,307
Avg. graduation rate 65%
Avg. net price $19,058
Avg. median debt $21,875

How We Ranked

Endowment per student — the financial resources available to invest in education and research.

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Earnings vs. Cost

Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.

$15K$68K$120K$0$59KNET PRICEThe UniversitySaint JohnsTrinity WashingtonUniversity ofNevada State

Graduation Rates

Longer bars = higher graduation rate.

The University of Texas …88%Saint Johns University76%Trinity Washington Unive…47%University of North Caro…92%Nevada State University32%Saint Francis University74%California College of th…62%Westminster College56%University of South Dako…61%The New School70%Missouri University of S…64%Columbia College Chicago50%University of Louisville61%University of South Alab…53%University of North Caro…78%University of Kentucky71%Oregon State University70%University of Idaho59%The University of Alabama74%University of Alabama at…63%

Top 3

#1

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Graduation88%
Earnings$75,121
Net Price$19,857

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#2

Saint Johns University

Collegeville, MN

Graduation76%
Earnings$76,786
Net Price$25,672

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#3

Trinity Washington University

Washington, DC

Graduation47%
Earnings$53,804
Net Price$9,302

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Full Rankings

#1

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX · 42,855 students · Public

27% accepted 88% graduate $75,121 earnings
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#2

Saint Johns University

Collegeville, MN · 1,395 students · Private nonprofit

91% accepted 76% graduate $76,786 earnings
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#3

Trinity Washington University

Washington, DC · 1,414 students · Private nonprofit

100% accepted 47% graduate $53,804 earnings
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#4

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC · 20,752 students · Public

15% accepted 92% graduate $72,200 earnings
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#5

Nevada State University

Henderson, NV · 3,762 students · Public

87% accepted 32% graduate $53,166 earnings
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#6

Saint Francis University

Loretto, PA · 1,557 students · Private nonprofit

77% accepted 74% graduate $62,101 earnings
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#7

California College of the Arts

San Francisco, CA · 990 students · Private nonprofit

91% accepted 62% graduate $49,414 earnings
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#8

Westminster College

Fulton, MO · 638 students · Private nonprofit

79% accepted 56% graduate $52,199 earnings
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#9

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD · 5,439 students · Public

99% accepted 61% graduate $51,926 earnings
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#10

The New School

New York, NY · 6,563 students · Private nonprofit

63% accepted 70% graduate $52,901 earnings
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#11

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rolla, MO · 5,521 students · Public

73% accepted 64% graduate $82,957 earnings
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#12

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, IL · 5,368 students · Private nonprofit

89% accepted 50% graduate $42,195 earnings
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#13

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY · 14,727 students · Public

79% accepted 61% graduate $53,899 earnings
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#14

University of South Alabama

Mobile, AL · 8,879 students · Public

71% accepted 53% graduate $49,379 earnings
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#15

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Winston Salem, NC · 945 students · Public

30% accepted 78% graduate $38,357 earnings
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#16

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY · 24,763 students · Public

93% accepted 71% graduate $59,025 earnings
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#17

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR · 30,743 students · Public

77% accepted 70% graduate $64,010 earnings
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#18

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID · 7,747 students · Public

76% accepted 59% graduate $54,670 earnings
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#19

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL · 33,227 students · Public

77% accepted 74% graduate $59,221 earnings
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#20

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · 11,635 students · Public

88% accepted 63% graduate $54,501 earnings
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#21

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR · 28,677 students · Public

74% accepted 70% graduate $58,191 earnings
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#22

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL · 35,629 students · Public

24% accepted 91% graduate $71,588 earnings
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#23

Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, ME · 942 students · Public

54% accepted 60% graduate $89,964 earnings
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#24

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR · 20,497 students · Public

88% accepted 72% graduate $61,324 earnings
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#25

Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, VA · 1,527 students · Public

71% accepted 79% graduate $77,369 earnings
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#26

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg, VA · 30,923 students · Public

55% accepted 86% graduate $81,698 earnings
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#27

University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT · 19,835 students · Public

52% accepted 84% graduate $73,997 earnings
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#28

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT · 27,264 students · Public

86% accepted 64% graduate $67,170 earnings
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#29

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Socorro, NM · 995 students · Public

44% accepted 57% graduate $76,489 earnings
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#30

University of Wyoming

Laramie, WY · 7,944 students · Public

97% accepted 59% graduate $56,880 earnings
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#31

University of Virginia's College at Wise

Wise, VA · 1,101 students · Public

29% accepted 48% graduate $45,325 earnings
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#32

Auburn University

Auburn, AL · 26,816 students · Public

46% accepted 81% graduate $65,337 earnings
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#33

North Carolina A & T State University

Greensboro, NC · 12,182 students · Public

50% accepted 56% graduate $44,440 earnings
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#34

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI · 40,922 students · Public

85% accepted 81% graduate $67,253 earnings
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#35

Rowan University

Glassboro, NJ · 15,841 students · Public

78% accepted 68% graduate $59,988 earnings
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#36

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL · 32,212 students · Public

24% accepted 84% graduate $61,675 earnings
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#37

South Carolina State University

Orangeburg, SC · 2,934 students · Public

83% accepted 33% graduate $38,262 earnings
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#38

Angelo State University

San Angelo, TX · 5,643 students · Public

83% accepted 42% graduate $50,116 earnings
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#39

Washington State University

Pullman, WA · 21,099 students · Public

87% accepted 61% graduate $68,905 earnings
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#40

Wichita State University

Wichita, KS · 10,780 students · Public

94% accepted 51% graduate $51,532 earnings
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#41

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Greensboro, NC · 14,062 students · Public

89% accepted 57% graduate $48,160 earnings
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#42

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA · 22,264 students · Public

84% accepted 74% graduate $64,762 earnings
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#43

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX · 32,394 students · Public

73% accepted 68% graduate $62,454 earnings
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#44

Emporia State University

Emporia, KS · 2,239 students · Public

98% accepted 55% graduate $47,601 earnings
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#45

Mississippi University for Women

Columbus, MS · 1,605 students · Public

90% accepted 42% graduate $46,128 earnings
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#46

East Texas A&M University

Commerce, TX · 9,912 students · Public

92% accepted 44% graduate $50,296 earnings
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#47

Colorado College

Colorado Springs, CO · 2,014 students · Private nonprofit

18% accepted 87% graduate $65,222 earnings
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#48

University of Mississippi

University, MS · 21,473 students · Public

97% accepted 70% graduate $50,994 earnings
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#49

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN · 12,701 students · Public

72% accepted 50% graduate $48,458 earnings
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#50

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV · 17,385 students · Public

89% accepted 63% graduate $55,939 earnings
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Sources & Citations

[1]

Chetty, R., Friedman, J., Saez, E., Turner, N., & Yagan, D. (2017). Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 23618. →

[2]

U.S. Department of Education. College Scorecard Data. Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics. →

[3]

Bell, A., Chetty, R., Jaravel, X., Petkova, N., & Van Reenen, J. (2019). Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(2), 647-713. →

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David Krug

Co-Founder, CollegeRanker

David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.

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