List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Counting all degrees, Harvard University comes in first place in terms of the total number of billionaire alumni. The University of Pennsylvania comes in first if only bachelor's degrees are counted, according to the most recent 2022 Forbes report.[1] Harvard also ranks first in the number of ultra-high net worth alumni with assets greater than $30 million. Harvard's total number of ultra-high net worth alumni is more than twice that of the next highest ranking institution, Stanford University. These figures have not been adjusted for the relative size of these institutions. The list is dominated by US universities, which account for all of the global Top 10 universities by number of billionaire alumni.[2]

Global top 10 universities by number of billionaire alumni per Wealth-X 2018[2]

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Rank University Number
1   Harvard University 188
2   Stanford University 74
3   University of Pennsylvania 64
4   Columbia University 53
5   Massachusetts Institute of Technology 38
6   Cornell University 35
7   Yale University 31
8   University of Southern California 29
8   University of Chicago 29
10   University of Michigan 26

Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Wealth-X 2019[3]

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Rank University Number Combined wealth
1   Harvard University 13,650 $4,769 billion
2   Stanford University 5,580 $2,899 billion
3   University of Pennsylvania 5,575 $1,780 billion
4   Columbia University 3,925 $1,501 billion
5   New York University 3,380 $712 billion
6   Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2,785 $990 billion
7   University of Cambridge 2,760 $390 billion
8   Northwestern University 2,725 $389 billion
9   University of Southern California 2,645 $548 billion
10   University of Chicago 2,405 $707 billion
11   Yale University 2,400 $777 billion
12   University of California, Berkeley 2,385 $760 billion
13   University of Oxford 2,290 $349 billion
14   Cornell University 2,245 $483 billion
15   University of Texas at Austin 2,195 $463 billion
16   Princeton University 2,180 $1,126 billion
17   University of Notre Dame 2,085 $179 billion
18   University of Miami 1,970 $691 billion
19      INSEAD 1,965 $356 billion
20   University of California, Los Angeles 1,945 $375 billion

Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Altrata 2022[4][5][6]

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Rank University Number
1   Harvard University 17,660
2   Stanford University 7,972
3   University of Pennsylvania 7,517
4   Columbia University 5,528
5   New York University 5,214
6   Northwestern University 4,354
7   University of Cambridge 4,149
8   Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4,089
9   Yale University 3,654
10   National University of Singapore 3,653
11   University of Southern California 3,594
12   University of Chicago 3,588
13   University of Texas System 3,407
14   University of Oxford 3,356
15   Princeton University 3,173
16   Cornell University 2,911
17   University of California, Los Angeles 2,906
18   University of Michigan 2,881
19   University of Notre Dame 2,804
20      INSEAD 2,625

Global top 20 universities by number of billionaire undergraduate alumni per Wealth-X 2014[7][8][9][10][11][12]

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Rank University Number
1   University of Pennsylvania 25
2   Harvard University 22
3   Yale University 20
4   University of Southern California 16
5   Princeton University 14
5   Cornell University 14
5   Stanford University 14
8   University of California, Berkeley 12
8   University of Mumbai 12
10   London School of Economics and Political Science 11
10   Moscow State University 11
12   Dartmouth College 10
12   University of Michigan 10
12   University of Texas System 10
15   Duke University 9
15   New York University 9
17   Columbia University 8
17   Brown University 8
19   Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7
20   ETH Zurich 6

Global top 11 universities by number of undergraduate billionaire alumni per Forbes 2021[13]

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Rank University Number Total Net Worth
1   University of Pennsylvania 29 $284.8 billion
2   Harvard University 28 $207 billion
2   Stanford University 28 $124.4 billion
4   Yale University 21 $140.8 billion
5   University of Mumbai 20 $162.8 billion
6   Cornell University 18 $65.1 billion
7   University of Southern California 15 $58.5 billion
8   Massachusetts Institute of Technology 14 $104 billion
9   Columbia University 11 $40.9 billion
9   Princeton University 11 $288.4 billion
9   University of California, Berkeley 11 $82.6 billion

Top 12 US universities by number of undergraduate alumni† on 2021 Forbes 400 list[14]

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Rank University Number
1   Harvard University 15
2   University of Pennsylvania 14
3   Stanford University 12
3   Yale University 12
5   University of Southern California 10
6   Cornell University 9
7   Princeton University 8
8   Columbia University 7
8   University of Michigan 7
10   Duke University 6
10   University of California, Berkeley 6
10   Dartmouth College 6

Top 11 US universities by number of undergraduate alumni† on 2022 Forbes 400 list[15]

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Rank University Number
1   University of Pennsylvania 17
2   Harvard University 11
2   Yale University 11
4   University of Southern California 10
5   Stanford University 9
6   Princeton University 8
7   Columbia University 7
7   Cornell University 7
7   University of Michigan 7
10   Dartmouth College 6
10   New York University 6

† Includes only those alumni who received undergraduate degrees

Top 8 US universities by share of centi-millionaires (>$100 million) per Henley & Partners[16]

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Rank University Share
1   Harvard University 7%
2   Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5%
2   Stanford University 5%
4   University of Pennsylvania 4%
4   Columbia University 4%
4   Yale University 4%
7   Cornell University 3%
7   Princeton University 3%

† Includes only U.S. residents worth more than $100 million

See also

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References

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