Well-known training organizations of billionaires in the world

Posted On 22/12/2013

9 out of 10 universities in this list are from the U.S., led by Harvard University and followed by such universities as Pennsylvania, Stanford, New York and Columbia.

Wealth-X has just released the ranking table of universities producing the most billionaires in the world. The number of graduate billionaires, total value of assets and typical former students are enclosed with every university.
In the top 10, all mostly are private schools and located in the U.S. According to David Friedman, Chairman of Wealth-X, this list is “only to re-affirm what we predicted, the problem is not only to know which school but also who has studied there.”

1. Harvard

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 52

Total assets: USD 205 billion

Typical billionaires: New York Mayor – Michael Bloomberg, founder of Citadel Investment Fund – Kenneth Griffin and petroleum tycoon – David Rockefeller. Two other famous billionaires – Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are not considered because of discontinuing their studies for business starting.

2. Pennsylvania

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 28

Total assets: USD 112 billion

Typical billionaires: Billionaire in real estate – Mortimer Zuckerman, Daniel Och of Och-Ziff investment fund and financial expert Michael Milken.

3. Stanford

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 27

Total assets: USD 76 billion

Typical billionaires: Co-founder Jerry Yang of Yahoo, two founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, founder Philip Knight of Nike.

4. New York

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 17

Total assets: USD 68 billion

Typical billionaires: co-founder Home Depot Kenneth Langone, two managers of Millennium hedge fund- Israel Englander and John Paulson.

5. Columbia

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 15

Total assets: USD 96 billion

Typical billionaires: Investment billionaire Warren Buffett, co-founder and CEO of KKR investment fund – Henry Kravis and Chairman and CEO of Kraft – Robert Kraft Group.

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 15

Total assets: USD 114 billion

Typical billionaires: Brothers Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries group, co-founder Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm.

7. Cornell

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 14

Total assets: USD 35 billion

Typical billionaires: Founder of PeopleSoft – David Duffield and five members of family SC Johnson & Son.

8. South California

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 14

Total assets: USD 32 billion
This university, in addition to the training of many famous artists and athletes, also produces such billionaires as Bradley Hughes of Public Storage and Scott Cook of Intuit.

9. Yale

Nation: United State

Number of billionaires graduated: 13

Total assets: USD 77 billion

Typical billionaires: Forrest Mars Jr. and John Mars from Mars food, Cargill MacMillan Jr. and Whitney MacMillan of Cargill group, co-founder Blackstone – Stephen Schwarzman.

10. Cambridge

Nation: English

Number of billionaires graduated: 11

Total assets: USD 48 billion

Typical billionaires: Founder of Soho Real estate Group (China), Zhang Xin and Hong Kong billionair in real estate, Raymond Kwok.
Thuy Linh (theo CNBC)

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