Let Them Play: Santa Clara University Football

Did you know...that Santa Clara's endowment is larger than 108 of the 123 schools now playing at the Division I-AA level? Or that annual giving to the university is more than the giving at 112 of the 123 schools playing in Division I-AA?

Below is a summary of the top 125 endowments and annual giving totals in 2000 for four-year coeducational universities. Santa Clara is represented highly in both.

Ranked by endowment, Santa Clara is ranked at #93. Note that 105 of the top 125 schools listed by endowment field an intercollegiate football team and 88 of the top 100. Ranked by annual giving, Santa Clara is ranked at #115. 110 of the top 125 schools listed by annual giving field an intercollegiate football team and 90 of the top 100.

	Endowment Assets (000)		Football?
1	Harvard	18,844,338	Yes
2	Yale	10,084,900	Yes
3	Stanford	8,649,475	Yes
4	Princeton	8,398,100	Yes
5	MIT	6,475,506	Yes
6	Emory	5,032,683	No
7	Columbia	4,263,972	Yes
8	Washington (Mo.)	4,234,599	Yes
9	Texas A&M	3,932,469	Yes
10	Chicago	3,828,664	Yes
11	Cornell	3,436,926	Yes
12	Rice	3,372,458	Yes
13	Northwestern	3,368,233	Yes
14	Michigan	3,329,637	Yes
15	Pennsylvania	3,200,812	Yes
16	Notre Dame	3,089,007	Yes
17	Duke	2,663,891	Yes
18	Dartmouth	2,490,376	Yes
19	Vanderbilt	2,314,935	Yes
20	UC-Berkeley	2,168,671	Yes
21	Southern California	2,152,589	Yes
22	Johns Hopkins	1,825,212	Yes
23	Minnesota	1,809,305	Yes
24	Virginia	1,738,984	Yes
25	Texas	1,611,050	Yes
26	Case Western Reserve	1,550,600	Yes
27	Cal Tech	1,535,702	No
28	UCLA	1,447,371	Yes
29	Brown	1,416,052	Yes
30	Williams	1,357,589	Yes
31	Purdue	1,301,976	Yes
32	Ohio State	1,294,923	Yes
33	Rochester	1,278,774	Yes
34	Georgia Tech	1,141,666	Yes
35	Pomona	1,109,410	Yes
36	North Carolina	1,105,254	Yes
37	Wisconsin	1,080,363	Yes
38	Richmond	1,068,708	Yes
39	Boston College	1,044,542	Yes
40	NYU	1,030,800	No
41	Pittsburgh	1,018,015	Yes
42	Texas Christian	988,127	Yes
43	Wake Forest	969,618	Yes
44	Cincinnati	963,907	Yes
45	Swarthmore	963,676	No
46	St. Louis	925,955	No
47	Boston University	913,207	No
48	Amherst	912,399	Yes
49	Washington	911,804	Yes
50	Delaware	911,521	Yes
51	Southern Methodist	911,121	Yes
52	Grinnell	862,487	Yes
53	Berea	861,303	No
54	Carnegie Mellon	829,121	Yes
55	Syracuse	825,250	Yes
56	Lehigh	791,190	Yes
57	Penn State	781,038	Yes
58	Yeshiva	775,262	No
59	Georgetown	745,398	Yes
60	George Washington	737,647	No
61	Rensselaer	729,973	Yes
62	Tulsa	725,470	Yes
63	Kansas	684,362	Yes
64	Florida	681,370	Yes
65	Middlebury	666,783	Yes
66	Trinity	656,978	Yes
67	Baylor	645,095	Yes
68	Tulane	636,350	Yes
69	Oberlin	610,229	Yes
70	Nebraska	590,875	Yes
71	Illinois	585,879	Yes
72	Wesleyan	579,914	Yes
73	Macalester	564,439	Yes
74	Tufts	523,520	Yes
75	Northeastern	518,536	Yes
76	Indiana	499,105	Yes
77	Denison	498,362	Yes
78	Claremont-McKenna	487,120	Yes
79	DePauw	482,251	Yes
80	Bowdoin	465,274	Yes
81	Bucknell	465,262	Yes
82	Miami	465,212	Yes
83	Louisville	454,521	Yes
84	Lafayette	451,160	Yes
85	SUNY-Buffalo	447,322	Yes
86	Colgate	439,115	Yes
87	Washington State	437,093	Yes
88	Hamilton	432,225	Yes
89	Iowa	424,159	Yes
90	Oklahoma	417,909	Yes
91	Santa Clara	411,260	No
92	Iowa State	410,704	Yes
93	Brandeis	406,722	No
94	Colorado	405,641	Yes
95	Pepperdine	402,264	No
96	Rutgers	400,259	Yes
97	Washington & Lee	399,567	Yes
98	UC-Davis	395,346	Yes
99	Earlham	392,316	Yes
100	Houston	390,617	Yes
101	Georgia	388,432	Yes
102	William and Mary	382,538	Yes
103	IUPU Indianapolis	381,134	No
104	Missouri	379,095	Yes
105	Colby	373,535	Yes
106	Alabama	370,695	Yes
107	Kentucky	370,125	Yes
108	Virginia Tech	368,197	Yes
109	Holy Cross	368,119	Yes
110	Trinity (Ct.)	361,745	Yes
111	Reed	346,392	No
112	Worcester Poly.	343,967	Yes
113	Southwestern (Tx.)	341,551	No
114	Loyola- Chicago	338,937	No
115	Davidson	336,426	Yes
116	Haverford	329,571	No
117	Wabash	321,103	Yes
118	Maryland	319,061	Yes
119	Utah	317,268	Yes
120	Loyola-New Orleans	315,698	No
121	Whitman	313,244	No
122	North Carolina State	312,840	Yes
123	Michigan State	310,289	Yes
124	Howard	308,972	Yes
125	South Alabama	306,193	No

	Annual Giving (000)		Football?
1	Stanford	580,474	Yes
2	Harvard	485,238	Yes
3	Duke	407,953	Yes
4	Yale	358,103	Yes
5	Cornell	308,676	Yes
6	Johns Hopkins	304,044	Yes
7	Columbia	292,268	Yes
8	Pennsylvania	288,152	Yes
9	Wisconsin	280,182	Yes
10	UCLA	253,765	Yes
11	Southern California	253,288	Yes
12	MIT	238,426	Yes
13	NYU	236,620	No
14	Washington	225,575	Yes
15	Michigan	221,381	Yes
16	Northwestern	203,069	Yes
17	Texas	201,637	Yes
18	Virginia	195,284	Yes
19	Minnesota	193,950	Yes
20	Chicago	177,619	Yes
21	Ohio State	174,329	Yes
22	UC-Berkeley	166,844	Yes
23	Princeton	166,189	Yes
24	North Carolina	164,640	Yes
25	Florida	163,600	Yes
26	Utah	144,016	Yes
27	Notre Dame	140,679	Yes
28	Iowa	130,022	Yes
29	Washington	127,219	Yes
30	Pennsylvania State	125,958	Yes
31	Michigan	121,287	Yes
32	Cal Tech	117,561	No
33	Dartmouth	116,128	Yes
34	UC-San Diego	112,792	No
35	Texas A&M	110,426	Yes
36	Case Western	109,933	Yes
37	Illinois	107,504	Yes
38	Georgia Tech	107,465	Yes
39	Emory	101,430	No
40	Indiana	100,797	Yes
41	Miami	100,563	Yes
42	Mississippi	94,973	Yes
43	Vanderbilt	94,181	Yes
44	Brown	93,077	Yes
45	Georgetown	92,837	Yes
46	Arizona	91,711	Yes
47	IUPU-Indianapolis	90,718	No
48	Arkansas	88,197	Yes
49	Brigham Young	86,474	Yes
50	Purdue	84,358	Yes
51	Iowa	83,894	Yes
52	Clemson	82,929	Yes
53	Pittsburgh	82,030	Yes
54	Houston	80,777	Yes
55	UC-Davis	76,768	Yes
56	North Carolina State	74,363	Yes
57	Rutgers	73,945	Yes
58	Rice	73,651	Yes
59	Boston College	73,428	Yes
60	Tufts	72,990	Yes
61	Carnegie-Mellon	71,671	Yes
62	Arizona State	69,026	Yes
63	Florida State	68,203	Yes
64	Southern Methodist	67,765	Yes
65	Bowdoin	67,271	Yes
66	UC-Irvine	67,254	No
67	Tulane	66,000	Yes
68	Rochester	64,091	Yes
69	Kansas	62,793	Yes
70	Brandeis	61,704	No
71	Cincinnati	61,671	Yes
72	Williams	60,136	Yes
73	Texas Tech	59,474	Yes
74	Baylor	57,661	Yes
75	Colorado	57,284	Yes
76	Alabama-Birmingham	56,864	Yes
77	Maryland	56,119	Yes
78	Virginia Tech	55,610	Yes
79	West VirginIa	52,855	Yes
80	South Carolina	52,357	Yes
81	Oklahoma	51,244	Yes
82	Rose-Hulman	49,262	Yes
83	Boston Univ.	48,668	No
84	Oregon	48,584	Yes
85	Kentucky	48,382	Yes
86	Tennessee	48,004	Yes
87	Nebraska	47,615	Yes
88	Washington State	45,808	Yes
89	Georgia	45,739	Yes
90	Delaware	44,679	Yes
91	Louisville	44,091	Yes
92	Syracuse	42,814	Yes
93	Rensselaer	42,716	Yes
94	Wake Forest	42,502	Yes
95	DePauw	41,892	Yes
96	Yeshiva	41,299	No
97	South Florida	40,809	Yes
98	George Washington	40,350	No
99	Kansas State	40,331	Yes
100	Wayne State	40,000	Yes
101	Temple	39,721	Yes
102	San Diego State	39,635	Yes
103	Washington & Lee	39,219	Yes
104	Missouri	39,212	Yes
105	Illinois-Chicago	38,509	No
106	Oklahoma	37,984	Yes
107	Alabama	37,688	Yes
108	Connecticut	37,577	Yes
109	Auburn	37,301	Yes
110	Oregon State	37,178	Yes
111	Texas-Dallas	36,737	No
112	William & Mary	36,092	Yes
113	Tulsa	35,929	Yes
114	Oberlin	34,575	Yes
115	Santa Clara	34,427	No
116	Louisiana State	33,400	Yes
117	Lehigh	33,346	Yes
118	Amherst	33,342	Yes
119	Wheaton	33,125	Yes
120	Loyola Marymount	32,965	No
121	Connecticut	31,755	Yes
122	Saint Louis	31,662	No
123	Macalester	31,230	Yes
124	Hillsdale	31,132	Yes
125	Northeastern	31,089	Yes

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