List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

More billionaires] went to the University of Pennsylvania for their undergraduate degrees than to any other college in the world.[1] Twenty-five current billionaires received their bachelor's degrees at Pennsylvania; the only other colleges to produce similar numbers were Harvard University with 22 undergraduate alumni billionaires and Yale University with 20. The University of Mumbai is the university outside the US with the highest number of billionaire graduates.

Among the billionaires who hold a tertiary-level degree, 42 per cent graduated with a bachelor's degree, 26 percent have a master's degree, 21 percent finished their MBA, and 11 percent attained a PhD.[2]

The list is dominated by US universities with 16 of them making it to the top 20, including the first eight positions.[3]

The 20 top universities by number of billionaires

  1. University of Pennsylvania - 25
  2. Harvard University - 22
  3. Yale University - 20
  4. University of Southern California - 16
  5. Cornell University - 14
  6. Princeton University - 14
  7. Stanford University - 14
  8. University of California - 12
  9. University of Mumbai - 12
  10. London School of Economics - 11
  11. Lomonosov Moscow State University - 11
  12. Dartmouth College - 10
  13. University of Michigan - 10
  14. University of Texas - 10
  15. Duke University - 9
  16. New York University - 9
  17. Brown University - 8
  18. Columbia University - 8
  19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 7
  20. ETH Zurich - 6

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The 20 Universities That Have Produced The Most Billionaires". Retrieved 2014-09-17.
  2. ↑ "Mumbai University Has More Billionaire Alumni Than MIT". Retrieved 2014-10-27.
  3. ↑ "The Top 10 Universities for Billionaire Alumni". Retrieved 2014-09-17.