There has been much talk in the past several years, particularly this season, about how much or little support Penn Athletics has received from the university.
It must be noted that the problem for Penn Athletics isn’t the inability to spend. According to data from the Office of Postsecondary Education, Penn’s annual expenses since 2004 – the start of Amy Gutmann’s presidency at Penn – average out to 30,644,364, the highest average in expenses in the Ivy League in that span:
Average Annual Athletics Expenses Since 2004
- Penn 30,644,364
- Yale 27,483,608
- Princeton 19,230,050
- Harvard 18,707,094
- Columbia 18,703,370
- Dartmouth 18,673,655
- Cornell 18,589,023
- Brown 15,175,837