Higher education is not a prerequisite to achieving billionaire status. Study. Which Universities Produce The Most Billionaires? University of Pennsylvania Has The Most Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni, 16 of 20 Top Billionaire Schools Are In The US.
The University of Pennsylvania is the top university in the world in terms of number of billionaire undergraduate alumni according to this year’s Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census. Twenty-five billionaires obtained their bachelor’s degrees from this prestigious university.
The annual Wealth-X and UBS study also shows that higher education is not a prerequisite to achieving billionaire status as 35% of the 2,325 billionaires in the world have not
obtained a tertiary-level degree. Notable university dropouts include Microsoft co- founder Bill Gates and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Both walked out of Harvard during their undergraduate years to start their businesses.
Among those billionaires who hold a tertiary-level degree, 42% graduated with a bachelor’s degree, 26% have a master’s degree, 21% finished their MBA, and 11% attained a
PhD.
Sixteen out of the top 20 billionaire schools are in the United States. With 12 billionaire alumni, India’s University of Mumbai has the most billionaire graduates of any university based outside the US. The London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom, Lomonosov Moscow State University and ETH Zurich in Switzerland are other schools outside the US that made it to the top 20 billionaire schools list.
Top 20 schools that produce the world’s billionaires:
1. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni –
25);
2. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 22);
3. YALE UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 20);
4. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate
Alumni – 16);
5. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 14);
6. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 14);
7. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 14);
8. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate
Alumni – 12);
9. UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI (Country: INDIA; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 12);
10. LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (Country: UNITED KINGDOM;
Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 11)
11. LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY (RUSSIA; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 11);
12. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 10);
13. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 10);
14. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni –
10);
15. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 9);
16. DUKE UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 9);
17. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 8);
18. BROWN UNIVERSITY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 8);
19. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Country: UNITED STATES; Billionaire
Undergraduate Alumni – 7);
20. ETH ZURICH (Country: SWITZERLAND; Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni – 6).
