Benchmarking Tulane against all colleges
Only Tulane has both as high a USNews College ranking (54th place) and as little debt related to property, plant, and equipment ($0.00K).
In other words, any other private college with as high a USNews College ranking also has more debt related to property, plant, and equipment, and any other private college with as little debt related to property, plant, and equipment also has a lower USNews College ranking.
In other words, any other private college with as high a USNews College ranking also has more debt related to property, plant, and equipment, and any other private college with as little debt related to property, plant, and equipment also has a lower USNews College ranking.
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Peers
closest are Pepperdine (54th place, $238.8M), Lehigh Univ (40th place, $254.3M), Brandeis (35th place, $257.2M), and Notre Dame (16th place, $411.9M), ending with Harvard (2nd place, $4.542B).
References
- Debt related to property, plant and equipment are amounts for all long-term debt obligations including bonds payable, mortgages payable, capital leases payable, and long-term notes payable. (FARM para. 421.3, 421.7) Includes the current portion of long-term debt if it is separately reported in institutions's general purpose financial statements. The source is the IPEDS FY 2013 finance data file F1213_F2 of private not-for-profit institutions and public institutions that use accounting standards established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
- The US News National Universities Rankings are at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities.