Stanford Makes Mo' Money Stanford's endowment returned 23% last year, according to Bloomberg. It's now $17.2 billion, or about half of Harvard's $34 billion.

Stanford is also in the middle of a five-year, $4.3 billion fundraising campaign—the highest in the history of American higher education, which almost surely means the highest in the history of the world.  ¶ 8:35 AM