Do you know, which university produces most of billionaires?
Yes of course, the name which comes first in your mind is
right.
In first place, Harvard University stays
1. Harvard university:
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| Harvard University |
Number of billionaire alumni: 52
Total wealth: $205 billion
Notable billionaires: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, oil and
banking tycoon George Kaiser
Meg Whitman of eBay, and also keep in mind
famous drop out of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
2. University of Pennsylvania:
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| University of Pennsylvania |
Number of billionaire alumni: 28
Total wealth: $112 billion
Notable billionaires: real estate titan
Mortimer Zuckerman, Daniel och of hedge fund Och-Ziff and Michael Milkmen
3. Stanford University
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| Stanford University |
Number of billionaire alumni: 27
Total wealth: $76 billion
Notable billionaires: Jerry Yang of Yahoo,
Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Philip Knight of Nike and David Shaw of
hedge fund DE shaw.
4. New York University
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| New York University |
Number of billionaire alumni: 17
Total wealth:$68 billion
Notable billionaires: hedge fund managers Israel
Englander and John Paulson, Kenneth Langone cofounder of Home Depot
5. Columbia University
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| Columbia University |
Number of billionaire alumni: 15
Total Wealth: $96 billion
Notable billionaires: Warren Buffet, Henry
Kravis, Robert Kraft
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Number of billionaire alumni: 15
Total Wealth: $35 billion
Notable billionaires: Charles and David
Koch of Koch Industries and Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm.
7. Cornell University
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| Cornell University |
Number of billionaire alumni: 14
Total Wealth: $35 billion
Notable billionaires: David Duffield of
PeopleSoft and five members fo the SC Johnson Family
8. University of Southern California
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| University of Southern California |
Number of billionaire alumni: 14
Total Wealth: $32 billion
Notable billionaires: Bradley Hughes of
Public Storage and Scott Cook of Intuit.
9. Yale University
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| Yale University |
Number of billionaire alumni: 13
Total Wealth: $77 billion
Notable billionaires: Mars chocolate
fortune (Forrest Mars jr. and John Mars) and Cargill agricultural fortune (Cargill
MacMillan jr. and Whitney MacMillian). Invester Eddie Lampert and Blackstone
Group cofounder Stephen Schwarzman.
10. University of Cambridge (non-US university)
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| University of Cambridge |
Number of billionaire alumni: 11
Total Wealth: $48 billion
Notable billionaires: Beijing real-estate
magnate Zhang Xin
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