According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rockefeller University has an endowment that exceeds $7,500,000 per student. Looks like they picked the right name.
It helps to only have 192 students. They also have 74 heads of laboratories, 181 research and clinical scientists, 355 postdoctoral investigators and 1,043 support staff. That's 8.6 faculty and staff for each student. How's that for student/faculty ratio? http://www.rockefeller.edu/about.php But impressive as that is, it isn't tops. The Scripps Research Institute has 287 faculty members, nearly 800 postdoctoral fellows and over 1,500 technical and administrative support personnel, along with 164 students. That's 15.8 faculty and staff for each student! Their endowment is a lot smaller than Rockefeller's, but they suck in research grants bigtime. In 2003, TSRI received $1,196,975 per student, in sponsored research funding from just the National Institutes of Health alone. http://www.scripps.edu/intro/facts.html
