Consider Harvard, MIT's, and NU's endowments. I attend Northeastern, where the CS college is excellent, particularly the opportunities to do research with programming language rockstars like Matthias Felleisen (The Little Schemer) and Olin Shivers (best known for his SCSH acknowledgements page).
The educational caliber of a school doesn't necessarily translate to deep pockets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $7.982 billion (US dollars)
Harvard University | $25.66 billion (US dollars)
Northeastern University | $486.9 million (US dollars)
(2009 estimates)
Consider Harvard, MIT's, and NU's endowments. I attend Northeastern, where the CS college is excellent, particularly the opportunities to do research with programming language rockstars like Matthias Felleisen (The Little Schemer) and Olin Shivers (best known for his SCSH acknowledgements page).
The educational caliber of a school doesn't necessarily translate to deep pockets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $7.982 billion (US dollars) Harvard University | $25.66 billion (US dollars) Northeastern University | $486.9 million (US dollars) (2009 estimates)
Harvard has 52 times more money than NU.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=endowment+of+MIT%2C+Har...
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