Which colleges get you the farthest/ richest?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm curious, which universities produce a lot of rich/successful people??</p>

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<p>Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Georgetown, Penn state, Arkansas</p>

<p>All in all, while going to a top school will help you for your very first job, the school you go to won’t dictate how rich you will get - that’s up to you, not the school. Although if you are interested in banking and finance, going to a top school can be very important. For anything else, it probably won’t matter.</p>

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<p>Any school where you can thrive. Normally, its a top school where you can have an extensive alumni network.</p>

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<p>Of course, the most selective schools take in students who are most likely to succeed no matter where they go to school.</p>

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<p>None of them. Not one. Zero. Zilch. Nada. </p>

<p>Whether it’s wealth, respect, happiness, love, YOU get yourself these things. It’s all about you and what you do. </p>

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<p>@jkeil911 please stop spreading that myth jkeil911, the biggest predictor of success is where you come from. The concept of the self-made man is ridiculous. </p>

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<p>Yes, it is true. Those who come from an affluent economic background will, on average, end up much better than those who come from a less advantaged economic background.</p>

<p>Nonetheless, if you can afford college and you have the drive to go through with it, almost any university will help you meet those goals.</p>

<p>I believe the most recent figure is that 1/3 of Americans have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. That itself puts you in a fairly elite percentage of the population.</p>

<p>Not the 1% but the 33%. Good enough I hope?</p>

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<p>Well @jkeil911 and @Vlklngboy11, whether you make your own success or whether it’s determined for you from birth (or some combination of the two) – one thing is for certain, it doesn’t happen because you went to a particular school. </p>

<p>OP, if you’re looking for a school that will make you rich, there is none. And anyone who tries to sell you on the idea that School X will get you that golden ticket is either delusional or is trying to promote School X. </p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.nber.org/papers/w17159”>http://www.nber.org/papers/w17159&lt;/a&gt;
For most students, according to this research, there is no significant monetary return to attending a highly selective college. Students who are admitted to such schools but who choose to attend less selective schools earn about as much, on average, as students who attend the more selective schools. </p>

<p>I don’t think these findings are 100% conclusive, and there may be good reasons to choose a more selective school besides the prospect of higher future earnings. However, your choice of major (as well as internship experiences) may have more impact on future earnings than your choice of school.
<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/majors-that-pay-you-back”>http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/majors-that-pay-you-back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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None. The elite schools skim the cream who will be successful no matter where they attend; they do not “produce” success.</p>

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<p>^ Agreed, as well as with @jkeil911‌. Among the top schools’ cream that they skim are the top 0.5% in income, which self propagates when it is passed on.</p>

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<p>@Vikingboy11, you obviously don’t have the same respect for myth that I have. :smiley: </p>

<p>But I wasn’t citing myth. I was simply saying that if a child does nothing at all, s/he will end up with nothing he or she treasures. </p>

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<p>University of Phoenix?</p>

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<p>The service academies. Guaranteed a position of leadership after college. </p>

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<p>Those maybe empty leadership positions.</p>

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<p>^ Uh, no. At that point the Lt/Ens is either in charge of an small organization or responsible for some major element in acquisition/flight/warfare. What the graduate does after that is up to them (just like a student in college).</p>

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<p>they’re not empty positions in the Navy. those men and women work their butts off trying to keep their sailors alive and safe, and in their spare time they’re responsible for counseling men and women sometimes twice their age about everything from adultery to taxes. Those men and women are hands-on leaders.</p>

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<p>H,Y,P, Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, Williams, Amherst, Holy Cross, Bowdoin.</p>

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<p>I’m interested in Business (entrepreneurship, international business) which schools are best for that?</p>

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<p>@MijoChbulkan‌ you’ll want to start your own thread for that question.</p>