Which university has the most billionaire alumni?

College Search & Selection
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<p>billionaire-university.html:</a> Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance</p>

<p>Interesting article.
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Columbia/Yale
5. MIT</p>

<p>Read more inside.</p>

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<p>Interesting article… thanks for posting.</p>

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<p>I believe the Skull and Bones society at Yale is the organization that created the most billionaires per capita.</p>

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<p>FULL LIST</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Uchicago</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UTA</li>
</ol>

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<p>good to see USC on there.</p>

<p>still, I guess I could understand the Ivies being listed… but USC seems a little random among these top 20s no? Is it because of Hollywood? And what happened to NYU? I think it was on the list last year.</p>

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<p>Rank School Enrollment Billionaires Per Current Student
1 Harvard…25,778…54…0.0021
2 Stanford…17,747…25…0.0014
2 Yale…11,415…16…0.0014
4 MIT…10,253…11…0.0011
5 Upenn…23,743…18…0.0008
6 Columbia…22,317…16…0.0007
6 UChicago…14,263…10…0.0007
8 Northwstrn…18,486…10…0.0005
8 Cornell…19,639…9…0.0005
10 USC…33,389…9…0.0003
10 Berkeley…33,920…9…0.0003
12 UTA…49,697…9…0.0002</p>

<p>These enrollment figures are from stateuniversity.com. They are the numbers of recently enrolled students, not the numbers of all living alumni. I’m guessing the total living alumni would number about 10 times the above enrollment figures. If so, the ratio of billionaires per living alumni would range from about 2 per 100,000 (UTA) to 2 per 10,000 (Harvard). These are miniscule numbers but it’s interesting how closely they seem to track the college rankings.</p>

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<p>bayv…Tour list is not a full list. You left off Cornell. Do you have something against the school?</p>

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<p>I’m schocked.</p>

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<p>Which university has the most students with billionaire parents?</p>

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<p>princeton isn’t even on that list.</p>

<p>wonder where they went.</p>

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<p>Cornell is however, and bayv… just left it off!!</p>

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<p>the picture they have of cornell in the slide show isn’t even cornell!</p>

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<p>Are you sure? It could be it is so general.</p>

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<p>Yes, indeed, that is the appropriate question here.</p>

<p>I only know, personally, one fellow who is referred to in the newspapers as a billionaire. His undergraduate degree is from a regional Catholic university that is rarely mentioned here. He spent most of his childhood in an orphanage.</p>

<p>These lists serve no purpose.</p>

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<p>I am not sure how accurate this article is. Michigan, for example, has produced at least 10 Billionaires. </p>

<p>John Robert Beyster (BA)
Desai Bharat (MBA)
Charlie Munger (BA)
Larry Page (BS)
Jorge M. Perez (MBA)
Stephen Ross (BA)
Kavitark Ram Shriram (MBA)
Bruce Wasserstein (BA)
Samuel Wyly (MBA)
Samuel Zell (BA)</p>

<p>The list above only includes Michigan graduates who made their own fortune. </p>

<p>I am not including people like Stanley Druckenmiller, Joan Tisch, Alfred Taubman or Niklas Zennstrom, who either attended Michigan but did not graduate from there or who graduated from Michigan but merely inherited their fortune.</p>

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<p>I too was wondering about the list, Alexandre. In fact, one of your threads seems to contradict it.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/471140-billionaires-according-alma-matter.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/471140-billionaires-according-alma-matter.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Harvard alumni make up 5% of the world’s billionaires but only .000543% of the population.</p>

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<p>Numerous billionaires have become mere millionaires over the past year. As pointed out in the article, Penn lost 1/3 of its billionaire alumni. I’m sure they were not alone. That will account for any discrepancy people are noting from prior years.</p>

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<p>Russ, in the case of the Michigan billionnaires I listed above, all 10 of them are all current Billionnaires (as of July 2009). The study was incorrect.</p>

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<p>Are most of Stanford’s billionaires…on paper? dot-com billionaires? And can any of this assume a direct correlation with going to a school and becoming a billionaire or are those who are driven just drawn to elite schools…that being said where the heck is Princeton?</p>