Where did the world’s self-made billionaires go to college? Here are the Top 10 universities

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"If you want to become a billionaire, then maybe you should do what billionaires do – and that could start with getting a similar education.

Recruitment app Debut delved into the biographies of 851 billionaires and came up with a list of the universities that have produced the most self-made members of the exclusive super-wealthy club. Below is the Top 10, with the number of up-by-the-bootstraps billionaires each institution can claim." …

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2020/02/where-did-the-worlds-self-made-billionaires-go-to-college-here-are-the-top-10-universities.html

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After reviewing the Top 10 list, I no longer feel guilty about not attending Princeton or Dartmouth decades ago.

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A very small sample size and a very select group. I certainly wouldn’t read any general trends out of this data - “these are the best schools”, or “schools not on the list aren’t good”.

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Also, HBS is listed with a bunch of undergrad programs. Where did the people who went to HBS go for their undergrad education?

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And second place with 40, is high school.

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These self-made billionaires made their money through innovation and entrepreneurship, not because of a college.
Bill Gates’ Harvard commencement speech (which he gave 32 years after dropping out) explains how successful people make themselves.

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The list includes people like Bill gates, whose parents, while not Billionaires, were reasonably wealthy, Mark Zuckerman grew up in a very affluent suburb of NY, his father was a dentist and his mother was a Psychiatrist. I kinda think that they were pretty wealthy too.

So even though “self-made” is supposed to imply a kind of “rags to riches” vibe, what we have is more along the lines of “riches to a huge amount of riches”.

Yeah, sure, “up-by-the-bootstraps”.

Of course, according to “Debut” ALL billionaires a “self made”. Every person mentioned by name from their list grew up in an affluent or wealthier family, but if their parents weren’t already billionaires, then that makes them “self made”. I guess that the myth that “anybody can be a billionaire, they just have to work hard (and attend the “right” college, evidently)”.

I am not at all surprised that the most common school attended by wealthy kids who them became billionaires was Harvard. There is no better college at making the rich richer than Harvard.

“Self-made”. They keep using that term, but I don’t think it means what they think it means.