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. If only bachelor's degrees are counted, the University of Pennsylvania comes in slightly ahead of Harvard, according to a 2014 report. 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. 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.
Global top 10 universities by number of billionaire alumni per Wealth-X 2018
- Harvard University – 188 alumni
- Stanford University – 74 alumni
- University of Pennsylvania – 64 alumni
- Columbia University – 53 alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 38 alumni
- Cornell University – 35 alumni
- Yale University – 31 alumni
- University of Southern California – 29 alumni
- University of Chicago – 29 alumni
- University of Michigan – 26 alumni
Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Wealth-X 2019
- Harvard University – 13,650 alumni, combined wealth $4,769 billion
- Stanford University – 5,580 alumni, combined wealth $2,899 billion
- University of Pennsylvania – 5,575 alumni, combined wealth $1,780 billion
- Columbia University – 3,925 alumni, combined wealth $1,501 billion
- New York University – 3,380 alumni, combined wealth $712 billion
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 2,785 alumni, combined wealth $990 billion
- University of Cambridge – 2,760 alumni, combined wealth $390 billion
- Northwestern University – 2,725 alumni, combined wealth $389 billion
- University of Southern California – 2,645 alumni, combined wealth $548 billion
- University of Chicago – 2,405 alumni, combined wealth $707 billion
- Yale University – 2,400 alumni, combined wealth $777 billion
- University of California, Berkeley – 2,385 alumni, combined wealth $760 billion
- University of Oxford – 2,290 alumni, combined wealth $349 billion
- Cornell University – 2,245 alumni, combined wealth $483 billion
- University of Texas at Austin – 2,195 alumni, combined wealth $463 billion
- Princeton University – 2,180 alumni, combined wealth $1,126 billion
- University of Notre Dame – 2,085 alumni, combined wealth $179 billion
- University of Michigan – 1,970 alumni, combined wealth $691 billion
- INSEAD – 1,965 alumni, combined wealth $356 billion
- University of California, Los Angeles – 1,945 alumni, combined wealth $375 billion
Global top 10 universities by number of billionaire undergraduate alumni per Wealth-X 2014
Rank | University | Amount |
1 | University of Pennsylvania | 25 |
2 | Harvard University | 22 |
3 | Yale University | 20 |
4 | University of Southern California | 17 |
5 | Princeton University | 14 |
6 | Stanford University | 14 |
7 | Cornell University | 14 |
8 | University of California, Berkeley | 12 |
9 | University of Mumbai | 12 |
10 | University of St. Gallen | 11 |