几年前，一位专注研究高等教育的美国朋友就扔过一个榜单给我，说这是对学生最有钱也最慷概的大学榜单，给孩子申请学校参考它。一个学校是否有钱、能否慷概地提供奖学金。不是看捐赠总额，而是捐赠金额平均到每个学生头上的数额，这才是衡量一个机构财务实力的真正指标。当然，通常来说，拥有最大捐赠金额的学院和大学——即他们控制下用于资助运营的资金或资产——往往能够为更多学生提供更多的财政援助。看看这是不是正好是最慷慨的学校的排名，是不是一些不见经传但内里富足的学校。身在其中的学生一定能感受得到。这是2024年最新数据。
| School Name | Endowment per Student | |
| 1 | Princeton University | $4,103,050 |
| 2 | Soka University of America | $3,031,573 |
| 3 | Yale University | $2,426,601 |
| 4 | Stanford University | $2,115,795 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $2,078,473 |
| 6 | Harvard University | $2,012,725 |
| 7 | Principia College | $1,689,410 |
| 8 | Swarthmore College | $1,606,862 |
| 9 | Amherst College | $1,551,542 |
| 10 | Williams College | $1,481,779 |
| 11 | Pomona College | $1,462,174 |
| 12 | Grinnell College | $1,441,078 |
| 13 | California Institute of Technology | $1,410,946 |
| 14 | Curtis Institute of Music | $1,344,246 |
| 15 | Bowdoin College | $1,318,133 |
| 16 | University of Notre Dame | $1,295,636 |
| 17 | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | $1,247,610 |
| 18 | Dartmouth College | $1,227,102 |
| 19 | The Juilliard School | $1,207,799 |
| 20 | Franklin W Olin College of Engineering | $1,148,145 |
| 21 | Washington and Lee University | $1,091,389 |
| 22 | Wellesley College | $1,067,040 |
| 23 | The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | $956,384 |
| 24 | Berea College | $949,712 |
| 25 | Duke University | $926,673 |
| 26 | Vanderbilt University | $892,684 |
| 27 | Rice University | $883,638 |
| 28 | University of Richmond | $882,314 |
| 29 | Washington University in St Louis | $873,796(19.4%) |
| 30 | University of Pennsylvania | $855,494 |
| 31 | Claremont McKenna College | $853,648 |
| 32 | Emory University | $788,869 |
| 33 | Smith College | $761,961 |
| 34 | Oregon Health & Science University | $724,691 |
| 35 | Bryn Mawr College | $663,985 |
| 36 | Trinity University | $656,202 |
| 37 | Davidson College | $642,912 |
| 38 | Webb Institute | $633,637 |
| 39 | Earlham College | $608,012 |
| 40 | Brown University | $605,048 |
| 41 | Hamilton College | $600,547 |
| 42 | Hillsdale College | $570,280 |
| 43 | Carleton College | $555,458 |
| 44 | Berry College | $549,177 |
| 45 | Northwestern University | $538,953 |
| 46 | University of Chicago | $515,600 |
| 47 | University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis | $500,849 |
| 48 | Vassar College | $490,100 |
| 49 | Wabash College | $464,096(2.4%) |
| 50 | Colby College | $457,396 |
| 51 | Reed College | $454,889 |
| 52 | Middlebury College | $446,366 |
| 53 | Whitman College | $438,185 |
| 54 | Denison University | $434,005 |
| 55 | Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America | $430,984 |
| 56 | Mount Holyoke College | $426,434 |
| 57 | Columbia University | $418,869 |
| 58 | Harvey Mudd College | $417,820 |
| 59 | Haverford College | $415,419 |
| 60 | Scripps College | $414,969 |
| 61 | Wesleyan University | $409,453 |
| 62 | DePauw University | $407,460 |
| 63 | University of Tulsa | $394,525 |
| 64 | Cornell University | $389,734 |
| 65 | University of Virginia | $388,022 |
| 66 | Trinity College | $384,715 |
| 67 | Colgate University | $380,153 |
| 68 | Oberlin College | $373,068 |
| 69 | Macalester College | $369,544 |
| 70 | Lafayette College | $365,582 |
| 71 | College of the Ozarks | $364,929 |
| 72 | Thomas Jefferson University | $363,412 |
| 73 | Virginia Military Institute | $361,461 |
| 74 | University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center | $360,937 |
| 75 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | $356,467 |
| 76 | Cottey College | $353,341 |
| 77 | Colorado College | $343,173 |
| 78 | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso | $340,604 |
| 79 | Rush University | $338,687 |
| 80 | Furman University | $331,545 |
| 81 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | $326,219 |
| 82 | Centre College | $313,975 |
| 83 | College of the Holy Cross | $313,032 |
| 84 | The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | $312,556 |
| 85 | Randolph College | $309,228 |
| 86 | Johns Hopkins University | $290,820 |
| 87 | Lawrence University | $284,412 |
| 88 | Texas A&M University-College Station | $279,460 |
| 89 | Occidental College | $279,308 |
| 90 | Hampden-Sydney College | $278,631 |
| 91 | Bucknell University | $276,225 |
| 92 | Boston College | $274,849 |
| 93 | Bryn Athyn College of the New Church | $259,937 |
| 94 | Washington College | $256,382 |
| 95 | St. John’s College | $255,964 |
| 96 | Dickinson College | $255,910 |
| 97 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | $253,102 |
| 98 | Kenyon College | $251,340 |
| 99 | University of Rochester | $246,440 |
| 100 | Union College | $245,619 |
| 101 | Lehigh University | $244,727 |
| 102 | Case Western Reserve University | $244,214 |
| 103 | The University of the South | $242,943 |
| 104 | Southwestern University | $238,535 |
| 105 | Hollins University | $236,408 |
| 106 | St Olaf College | $234,413 |
| 107 | Bates College | $229,842 |
| 108 | MCPHS University | $228,130 |
| 109 | Wake Forest University | $226,819 |
| 110 | Catawba College | $225,577 |
| 111 | Texas Christian University | $222,794 |
| 112 | Transylvania University | $222,268 |
| 113 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | $222,203 |
| 114 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | $222,108 |
| 115 | Willamette University | $221,961 |
| 116 | Centenary College of Louisiana | $219,076 |
| 117 | Georgetown University | $217,261 |
| 118 | Saint Mary’s College | $215,930 |
| 119 | University of Puget Sound | $214,955 |
| 120 | Wofford College | $209,765 |