Princeton has an endowment of US $ 1.9 billion (most of it contributed by alumni), second only to Harvard with US $ 2.3 billion and the University of Texas with US $ 2 billion, but Harvard has 15,600 students and Texas has 48,000, so in comparison Princeton's students are much better off.
根據校方統計，普大的各項資產（絕大部分是校友自動捐獻的）共值十九億美元，僅次於哈佛的廿三億及德州大學的廿億，但哈佛學生總數一萬五千六百餘人、德大更高達四萬八千人，相較之下，不過六千餘人的普大，每位學生在校時平均享用的資產及學校預算遠居第一。