List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

More billionaires went to the University of Pennsylvania for their undergraduate degrees than to any other college in the world. Twenty-five current billionaires received their bachelor's degrees at Pennsylvania; the only other colleges to produce similar numbers were Harvard College with 22 undergraduate alumni billionaires and Yale College with 20. The University of Mumbai is the university outside the US with the highest number of billionaire graduates.

Among the billionaires who hold a tertiary-level degree, 42 per cent graduated with a bachelor's degree, 26 per cent have a master's degree, 21 percent finished their MBA, and 11 percent attained a PhD.

The list is dominated by US universities with 16 of them making it to the top 20, including the first eight positions.

The 23 top colleges by number of billionaires

1. University of Pennsylvania - 25
2. Harvard College - 22
3. Yale College - 20
4. New York University - 17
5. University of Southern California - 16
6. Princeton University - 14
7. Cornell University - 14
8. Stanford University - 14
9. The University of Chicago - 13
10. University of California, Berkeley - 12
11. University of Mumbai - 12
12. London School of Economics - 11
13. Lomonosov Moscow State University - 11
14. University of Texas - 10
15. Dartmouth College - 10
16. University of Michigan - 10
17. Duke University - 9
18. Columbia College - 8
19. Brown University - 8
20. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 7
21. ETH Zurich - 6
22. Carnegie Mellon University - 5
23. Bates College - 2

See also

• List of countries by the number of US dollar billionaires
• List of cities by the number of billionaires
• List of wealthiest historical figures