> What if I told you UT has a higher endowment than any other school in the US including Harvard?
I would ask your data source, because Wikipedia has 2024 stats indicating Harvard’s endowment is ~$4.5 billion greater than the UT system’s ($52B vs $47.5B).
I’d also point out that the UT system has almost 9 times the student body size as Harvard (250k+ vs 30k) spread among 14 campuses.
If you told me that I would ask for some clarification.
The UT system has a very large endowment, (which appears to be a little smaller than Harvard's), but UT Austin is much smaller (but still very large for a public university.)
I'd also ask why you included the University of Florida in that list, since it appears their endowment is pretty small (at least compared to the other schools in that list.)
I'm guessing they relied on an LLM response. That was my thought, and having tried it they indeed generate lots of garbage for this topic. I got a ChatGPT A/B test for this and both options were incorrect (one obviously and the other subtly, due to misinterpreting a bond rating page's discussion of the PUF and just blindly regurgitating the number from there).
Doesn't seem to be true? The LLM response claims 47.5 billion but I have no idea where it got that number from after looking through its sources.
edit: Oh, and if you're talking about the Permanent University Fund that's split between the UT + A&M systems. And the ChatGPT response is way off here as well.
And as the others have noted, even if what you said was true it has very little to do with what you're replying to.
