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BenjaminDrover t1_jchy3eu wrote

Why did you skip most of the public universities? The University of Texas has an endowment 2nd only to Harvard.

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bronco_y_espasmo t1_jci6ni7 wrote

Well, I AM learning something today.

How is that?

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Economy_Bite24 t1_jci9tea wrote

It’s for the whole UT system spanning multiple universities.

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BenjaminDrover t1_jcicj8a wrote

When Texas founded its 2 main universities in the early 19th century, huge tracts of nearly worthless land in West Texas were allocated to support the institutions. Guess where the largest oil deposits in America were found in the following years...

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