The World’s Top Universities Based On The Total Net Worth Of Their Billionaire Graduates

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan DhirajCEO AgendaJune 28, 2018October 19, 2018

To identify the world’s top universities based on the total net worth of their billionaire graduates, CEOWORLD magazine reviewed the data of the richest people on the Forbes 2018 billionaires list, along with the institutions from which these individuals graduated. There were few surprising (and unsurprising) universities on the list.

Of the 512 billionaires reviewed, with a total net worth of its billionaire alumni $217 billion, the first place goes to Harvard university. Harvard also stands out with a total of 8 billionaire graduates.

The World’s top universities with the highest net worth based on their alumni:

1. Harvard, US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $217.5 billion
Number of billionaire: 8

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $186.2 billion
Number of billionaire: 4

3. Princeton University, US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $142.2 billion
Number of billionaire: 3

4. Columbia University, US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $116.2 billion
Number of billionaire: 3

5. Stanford University, US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $116 billion
Number of billionaire: 4

6. Ecole Polytechnique, France
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $83.9 billion
Number of billionaire: 2

7. Shenzhen University, China
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $60.9 billion
Number of billionaire: 2

8. University of Pennsylvania
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $56.6 billion
Number of billionaire: 5

9. The University of California, Berkeley, US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $56.1 billion
Number of billionaire: 3

10. Wuhan University, China
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: $52.9 billion
Number of billionaire: 3

11. University of Mumbai, India
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 51.9 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

12. Moscow State University, Russia
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 45.5 Billion
Number of billionaire: 3

13. Waseda University, Japan
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 38.1 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

14. Yale University, US
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 36.2 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

15. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 34.6 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

16. Moscow Institute of International Relations, Russia
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 8.4 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

17. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 26.0 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

18. National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Russia
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 24.9 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

19. University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Total net worth of its billionaire alumni: 22.9 Billion
Number of billionaire: 2

These are the universities which produced the most successful billionaire graduates:

Rank	Name	Net worth	Country	University
1	Jeff Bezos	112000000000	US	Princeton University
3	Warren Buffett	84000000000	US	University of Nebraska Lincoln, University of Columbia
4	Bernard Arnault	72000000000	France	Ecole Polytechnique
7	Carlos Slim Helu	67100000000	Mexico	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
8	Charles Koch	60000000000	US	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8	David Koch	60000000000	US	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11	Michael Bloomberg	50000000000	US	Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University
12	Larry Page	48800000000	US	University of Michigan, Stanford University
13	Sergey Brin	47500000000	US	University of Illinois
14	Jim Walton	46400000000	US	University of Arkansas
15	S. Robson Walton	46200000000	US	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
16	Alice Walton	46000000000	US	Trinity University
17	Ma Huateng	45300000000	China	Shenzhen University
18	Francoise Bettencourt Meyers	42200000000	France	University of Paris X Nanterre
19	Mukesh Ambani	40100000000	India	University of Mumbai, Stanford University (Drop Out)
20	Jack Ma	39000000000	China	Hangzhou Normal University
22	Steve Ballmer	38400000000	US	Harvard University, Stanford University (Drop Out)
24	Lee Shau Kee	30300000000	Hong Kong	Chinese University of Hong Kong
24	Hui Ka Yan	30300000000	China	Wuhan University
26	Wang Jianlin	30000000000	China	Liaoning University
28	Phil Knight	29600000000	US	University of Oregon, Stanford University
29	Jorge Paulo Lemann	27400000000	Brazil	Harvard University
31	Georg Schaeffler	25300000000	Germany	University of St. Gallen, Duke University
32	David Thomson	25000000000	Canada	University of Cambridge
34	Jacqueline Mars	23600000000	US	Bryn Mawr College
34	John Mars	23600000000	US	Yale University, The Hotchkiss School
37	Giovanni Ferrero	23000000000	Italy	Lebanon Valley College
37	Dietrich Mateschitz	23000000000	Austria	University of Vienna
39	Masayoshi Son	22700000000	Japan	University of California, Berkeley
41	Serge Dassault	22600000000	France	Kuban State University
42	Stefan Quandt	22000000000	Germany	Technical University of Karlsruhe
43	Yang Huiyan	21900000000	China	Ohio State University
48	Len Blavatnik	20200000000	US	Moscow State University, Columbia University, Harvard University
52	Henry Sy	20000000000	Philippines	Far Eastern University
52	James Simons	20000000000	US	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California (Berkeley)
54	Elon Musk	19900000000	US	University of Pennsylvania
55	Tadashi Yanai	19500000000	Japan	Waseda University
57	Vladimir Lisin	19100000000	Russia	Siberian State Industrial University, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
58	Laurene Powell Jobs	18800000000	US	Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
58	Azim Premji	18800000000	India	Stanford University
60	Alexey Mordashov	18700000000	Russia	Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, University of Northumbria
61	Lee Kun-Hee	18600000000	South Korea	Waseda University
62	Lakshmi Mittal	18500000000	India	St Xavier's College Calcutta
64	Leonid Mikhelson	18000000000	Russia	Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
67	Ray Dalio	17700000000	US	Long Island University, Harvard University
69	William Ding	17400000000	China	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
73	Carl Icahn	16800000000	US	Princeton University, New York University (Drop Out)
73	Stefan Persson	16800000000	Sweden	University of Stockholm
78	Vagit Alekperov	16400000000	Russia	Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry
80	Donald Bren	16300000000	US	University of Washington
82	Gennady Timchenko	16000000000	Russia	Baltic State Technical University
83	Lukas Walton	15900000000	US	Colorado College
83	Abigail Johnson	15900000000	US	Hobart and William Smith, Harvard University
83	Vladimir Potanin	15900000000	Russia	Moscow Institute of International Relations
86	Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken	15800000000	Netherlands	Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar, University of Leiden
87	Zhang Zhidong	15600000000	China	Shenzhen University, South China University of Technology
88	Andrey Melnichenko	15500000000	Russia	Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
88	Petr Kellner	15500000000	Czech Republic	University of Economics in Prague
91	Li Shufu	15300000000	China	Yanshan University
93	Mikhail Fridman	15100000000	Russia	National University of Science and Technology (MISiS)
94	Rupert Murdoch	15000000000	US	Oxford University
96	Robert Kuok	14800000000	Malaysia	Raffles College
98	Shiv Nadar	14600000000	India	University of Milan
99	Viktor Vekselberg	14400000000	Russia	Moscow State University
100	Aliko Dangote	14100000000	Nigeria	Al-Azhar University
102	Marcel Herrmann Telles	14000000000	Brazil	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
102	Steve Cohen	14000000000	US	University of Pennsylvania
106	Eric Schmidt	13400000000	US	Princeton University, University of California (Berkeley)
106	Charles Ergen	13400000000	US	University of Tennessee Knoxville, Wake Forest University School of Business
108	Jim Kennedy	13000000000	US	University of Denver
108	Philip Anschutz	13000000000	US	University of Kansas
113	Heinz Hermann Thiele	12900000000	Germany	LLM, University of Munich
113	Leonard Lauder	12900000000	US	University of Pennsylvania
115	Dilip Shanghvi	12800000000	India	Calcutta University
116	Hasso Plattner	12700000000	Germany	University of Karlsruhe
117	Stephen Schwarzman	12600000000	US	Yale University, Harvard University
118	Alisher Usmanov	12500000000	Russia	Moscow Institute of International Relations
118	Lei Jun	12500000000	China	Wuhan University
122	Peter Woo	12200000000	Hong Kong	Columbia University
123	Luis Carlos Sarmiento	12100000000	Colombia	National University of Colombia
124	Robin Li	12000000000	China	Peking University, University of Buffalo
124	Carlos Alberto Sicupira	12000000000	Brazil	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
126	Seo Jung-Jin	11900000000	South Korea	Ecole Polytechnique
127	Alexander Otto	11800000000	Germany	Harvard University, Harvard University
127	Stefano Pessina	11800000000	Italy	Politecnico di Milano
127	Kumar Birla	11800000000	India	University of Mumbai, University of London
134	John Menard, Jr.	11500000000	US	University of Wisconsin
135	Zhou Hongyi	11300000000	China	Xi'an Jiaotong University
137	Gong Hongjia	11200000000	Hong Kong	Huazhong University of Science and Technology
138	Michael Otto	11000000000	Germany	University of Munich, University of Hamburg
138	David Tepper	11000000000	US	University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University
140	Roman Abramovich	10800000000	Russia	Moscow State University
140	Liu Qiangdong	10800000000	China	Renmin University of China
143	Uday Kotak	10700000000	India	University of Mumbai
145	Pierre Omidyar	10500000000	US	Tufts University
147	Dietmar Hopp	10200000000	Germany	University of Karlsruhe
148	Eduardo Saverin	10100000000	Brazil	Harvard University
148	Yan Zhi	10100000000	China	Wuhan University
152	German Khan	9800000000	Russia	National University of Science and Technology (MISiS)
152	Ronald Perelman	9800000000	US	University of Pennsylvania

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Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is a publishing executive and economist who is the CEO and editor-in-chief of The CEOWORLD magazine, one of the world’s most influential and recognized global news publications. Additionally, he serves as the chair of the advisory board for the CEOWORLD magazine. He received his Ph.D. in Finance and Banking from the European Global School, Paris, France. He earned his Doctoral Degree in Chartered Accountancy from the European International University Paris, France, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD), Ukraine. Dr. Amarendra also holds a Master of Business Administration degree in International Relations and Affairs from the American University of Athens, Alabama, United States.

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is CEO and editor-in-chief of CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.

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