Troy's Advantage Over All Other Sbc Schools

[MCMLXXX]

Check out their endowment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_University

It is more than double any other SBC school and any State supported CUSA school. It is bigger than 5 SEC schools and just a few million shy of LSU.It is bigger than 4 Big 12 Schools and just a few million shy of Colorado. Imagine what UNT could do with that size of an endowment.

[Guest GrayEagleOne]

Endowments are impressive and can be a great academic help to a university. In the vast majority of cases, you can only use the interest from the endowment, not the principal. Public universities, at least in Texas, cannot use endowment interest on athletics.

A lot of the endowment funds are given for a specific purpose, such as endowing a chair in a specific College or School. Those funds are restricted and can be used for no other purpose. North Texas is relatively new to the endowment process and only generates in the neighborhood of one million dollars per year from investments, most of which is nondiscretionary.