Indiana University a Midwest US state school has a 3+ Billion Dollar endowment behind it and ranks 16th right now. University of Texas is #1 at $42B and Berkeley is 20th at $2.6B. These are just state schools. Stanford is at $38B and Yale is at $42B. There is plenty of money out there in the university endowments. They just need to spend it on things like research and professors rather than Golf Courses and sports stadiums.
