Universities are highly unequal, but gap isn’t growing

Published August 11, 2015 5:16pm ET



There’s a large difference between the resources of wealthy and poor universities, but that difference is mostly stable, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

While some schools, such as Harvard University, have multibillion-dollar endowments, other universities get by on much less. However, the gap between Harvard and less well-off schools isn’t growing, despite concerns that a few institutions may soon dominate the higher education sector.

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