Message-Id: <10661.120299@fatcity.com> From: Rick Osterberg Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:37:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA Needed in Central Texas.. > "Texas A&M has an endownment about the same size as Harvard. It owns > oil fields, ranches and winaries all over Texas. It boasts many very > wealthy alums over a long history" Endowments: Texas A&M: $3.7 billion (1) Harvard: $18.2 billion (as of June 30, 1999) (2) That sounds like some of that Texas "fuzzy math". :-) Another site says that Texas A&M has the 9th largest endowment as of "1998-1999": (3) Harvard: $14.5 billion Yale: 7.2 Princeton: 6.4 Stanford: 6.2 MIT: 4.2 Washington U: 3.8 Columbia: 3.6 Penn: 3.2 Texas A&M: 3.1 Northwestern: 3.0 -Rick (1) http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/sheets/amfacts.htm (2) http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/factbook/99-00/page38a.htm (3) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112636.html +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Rick Osterberg osterber@fas.harvard.edu | | Database Applications Specialist FAS Computer Services | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+