Harvard vs. Stanford: Which Universities Have Produced The Most Billionaires, 2017 Study?

Harvard University ranked number one college for producing most billionaires, according to the Wealth-X study, which ranked universities across the world by how many billionaire alumni they had produced.

Harvard has graduated some 131 billionaires, with a collective fortune of $528.7 billion, , to lead a global list of universities ranked by alumni worth $1 billion or more – in the so-called three commas club.

That’s more than twice as many as the No. 2 school, Stanford University, which has 50 billionaire alumni worth a collective $338.9 billion.

Also read: 20 Universities With The Highest Number of Richest Alumni In The World, 2017 Study

What is Three Commas Club?

Three Commas Club is an all exclusive club limited to those individuals whose net-worth is valued at a billion dollars or more.

To be in the three commas club is to be a billionaire = A billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) has 3 commas.

As the chart below shows, the University of Pennsylvania, has 77 billionaires to its credit,ranked No. 3 on the list.

So which universities are shelling out the most billionaires?

The top 10 universities with the most billionaire alumni:

1. Harvard University
   Number of Billionaires: 131
   Combined wealth: $528.7 billion
2. Stanford University
   Number of Billionaires: 50
   Combined wealth: $338.9 billion
3. University of Pennsylvania
   Number of Billionaires: 47
   Combined wealth: $246.5 billion
4. Columbia University
   Number of Billionaires: 38
   Combined wealth: $218 billion
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Number of Billionaires: 26
   Combined wealth: $157.9 billion
6. Cornell University
   Number of Billionaires: 23
   Combined wealth: $57 billion
7. University of Southern California
   Number of Billionaires: 22
   Combined wealth: $51.3 billion
8. University of Chicago
   Number of Billionaires: 21
   Combined wealth: $48.7 billion
9. Yale University
   Number of Billionaires: 21
   Combined wealth: $99.2 billion
10. University of California, Berkeley
    Number of Billionaires: 19
    Combined wealth: $83.7 billion
    

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