Endowment
As of 2011, W&M's fiscal year endowment totaled US $625 million. With a total enrollment of just under 8,000 (undergraduate and graduate), this equates to an $80,000 per student endowment - a common metric of an institution's financial strength. This places W&M on par with flagship public universities in several neighboring states including the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ($77,000) and Georgia Tech ($78,000).
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