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>Harvard has a $38 billion endowment, Yale $29 billion, Princeton $26 billion.

Holy Mother of God. I had to fact check this. But it turns out Wiki had a whole page [1] on it. Valued at $40.9 billion as of 2019. And [2] with the list of US university endowment. And on average 10 to 20 times the size of UK universities [3].

$40 BILLION US dollars?

And the insane amount of Student Debt? ( portrayed by MSM anyway, I didn't look much into it ).

Again there are just lots of thing across the pond lots of people from the outside fail to comprehend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_the_Un...




> And the insane amount of Student Debt? ( portrayed by MSM anyway, I didn't look much into it ).

Presumably not from Harvard students. They have very generous financial aid.

https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi....


Keep in mind this is for undergrad only. Stanford is fairly generous with aid as well, but for a masters degree the only aid is loans unless you get a TA/RA position.


Even people with no income still need to pay. See https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/8/4/hill-elimininate...


They don't, if you read the article. The $3,000 is not tuition, it's just a requirement to show this much cash from work or borrowing for non-tuition expenses, in order for Harvard to pay their tuition.




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