Clickbait articles are sometimes fun. This one notes that several of the top US billionaires attended just 5 colleges. Colleges with the most billionaires
“ Forbes published its “Top Colleges for Billionaires” list today that ranks American universities by the number of undergraduate alumni that have gone on to become billionaires.
Take a look at the top five schools in the ranking, which have collectively graduated 126 billionaires with a total net worth of $927.4 billion.”
Pretty incisive analysis there from Forbes, lol.
How many of them were already obscenely wealthy before they arrived at these schools (in some cases having bought their way in)?
Can you save us all the click and tell us?
I know the wife of a multi billionaire. Both she and her H went to our state’s “lesser” flagship.
1 Penn
2 Stanford
3 Harvard
4 Yale
5 Princeton
6T USC
6T Princeton
8T MIT
8T Dartmouth
8T Columbia
11T Michigan
11T UCB
Our state’s first tech billionaire is a college dropout. 
From Harvard
And the second one is a dropout from the big state school that has a big cat for a mascot.
I did not click on the article above, but I did click on this Forbes article:
Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2024: The Top 200.
In 2024 there are now 2,781 billionaires in the world, 813 of which are from the U.S.
Penn, #1 on the list of producers, has more than 290,000 alumni, only about half of which attended for undergrad (source). Stanford has more than 230k alumni (didn’t specify undergrad vs. grad in the source). Harvard has more than 400k alumni (again, source didn’t specific undergrad vs. grad).
So, taking just the top 3 college producers of billionaires, they currently have 920,000 alumni. Yet there are only 2,781 billionaires in the world. If anyone is choosing a college based on the likelihood of becoming a billionaire, I’m not sure if they have the chops to get into one of these highly selective/rejective schools.
You have Princeton listed twice. I believe #5 is Cornell.
It is debatable which school should get the credit : undergrad (4 years ) or masters (~ 1-1.5 year).
Now all the angsty CC newcomers are going to take a bunch of colleges off their kids’ lists and replace them with every college listed above.
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