11 Most Profitable Universities in America

5. Stanford University

Forbes’s rank: 12

Pay scale rank: 6 (early career pay – $70,100; mid-career pay – $130,000)

Stanford University was founded in 1885 by former California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford in the memory of their only child who died of fever. Its budget for 2015-16 has been $5.5 billion, while the university endowment is $22.2 billion. Moreover, in 2012, the California University became the first school which managed to raise more than a million of dollars during one year. And not only that Stanford is one of the richest educational institutions in the world, but its alumni are also among top-earners. The list of its notable students includes founders of Google, Instagram, Snapchat, and Yahoo. In 2012, two Stanford professors determined that universities alumni generate almost 3 trillion in annual revenue and that they have created 5.4 million jobs.

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