Ivy League Wrestles With Windfalls as Student Costs Rise
- Soaring endowments help schools boost student aid, add staff
- Newfound wealth raises questions on spending priorities
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Yale: $42 billion. Princeton: $38 billion. Columbia: $14 billion.
All told, it’s as if the Ivy League added another Harvard to its combined fortune in the space of a single year. The investment gain in the last fiscal year for the eight members: about $50 billion, for a total of more than $190 billion in assets.