Princeton billionaire

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<p>Someone showed me that the following are top 5 billionaire universities.</p>

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<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia </li>
<li>Yale</li>
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<p>Princeton used to be top 6 last year. I can not find Princeton any more in the new top 10 list
In</a> Pictures: Billionaire University - Forbes.com</p>

<p>Is this ranking accurate ? Is there some mistake in this ranking ?
What happened to Princeton Billionairs ??</p>

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<p>I can think of three off of the top of my head: Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman, and Carl Icahn. I’m sure there’s others.</p>

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<p>Icahn is an epic last name. Pronounced “icon” or “i-can.” Suits a billionaire perfectly.</p>

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<p>Add on Eric Schmidt and the Fishers (Gap). There must be others too, especially since these are just the most well known. </p>

<p>Edit: Not really sure how Forbes counted but [Ten</a> alums among Forbes’ Top 400 - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2007/09/26/18736/]Ten”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2007/09/26/18736/) seems to suggest that we should be somewhere up there. Granted, the others get huge boosts from their grad schools but I don’t see how we’re not top ten.</p>

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<p>Notice that the ranking includes both undergraduate and graduate schools thus severely hurting Princeton’s ranking.</p>

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<p>I don’t know if it’s that big a deal. Princeton is going to give you the tools to be a billionaire. A lack of names on this list might say more about the end goals of many Princeton students than it says about their success.</p>

<p>There are many ways to be successful other than being a Billionaire. I think Princeton (as well as Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Columbia and Yale) will outfit you just fine for whatever.</p>

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<p>You’d think Forbes would have the sense to control for the size of the school, Princeton being smaller than any of these–in nearly every case, *much *smaller. Maybe there aren’t any quants on Forbes’s staff?</p>

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<p>I don’t think such a practice was necessary, except perhaps if someone wanted to use the ranking to gauge their relative chances of being a billionaire if he or she were to go to those schools.</p>

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<p>How come I’m not a billionaire anyway? No Justice, No Peace!</p>

<p>Maybe it’s all the time I spend on CC ;)</p>

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<p>Duh!!!</p>

<p>Princeton has no b-school. Of course it’s not going to be on this list.</p>

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<p>Get over it! All mighty princeton has never been at the top for eeeeeeverything and no other university will ever be.</p>

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<p>Mmm maybe the ranking only included billionairs who actually worked their fortunes instead of inheriting them, that should take care of most princeton billionairs ;)</p>

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<p>I don’t see how this is even relevant. Only a handful of people ever become billionaires, and where people go to school doesn’t determine their likelihood of becoming a billionaire.</p>

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<p>It is skewed because Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia, MIT are the top MBA programs in the country.</p>

<p>The odds of becoming a billionaire are so remote, it’s not worth losing sleep over that bragging right…</p>

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<p>is that you over there in the dark, JomJom/Germancar?</p>

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<p>For undergraduates:</p>

<p>[Ten</a> alums among Forbes’ Top 400 - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2007/09/26/18736/]Ten”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2007/09/26/18736/)</p>

<p>Of the billionaires who made the magazine’s list, 10 are Princeton alumni…</p>

<p>Among top-ranked schools, Harvard has the most undergraduate alumni on the Forbes 400 list, with 16 of America’s richest citizens having pursued bachelor’s degrees there. That figure includes Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard.</p>

<p>Yale edges out Princeton as well, with 14 alumni on the list. Stanford has nine.</p>

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<p>nowadays when i see a 5 year old kid i think of jomjom and his german car. screw you, jomjom</p>

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<p>jomjom, they must have run away when you drove past them in your nice little german car.</p>

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<p>oh dear, jom jom invaded again</p>

<p><em>SHELTER IN PLACE DRILL</em></p>

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<p>Steve Forbes excludes himself from that list, but he should be on that list and he’s a Princeton alum… So we really have 11 :P</p>