List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

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. The University of Pennsylvania comes in first if only bachelor's degrees are counted, according to the most recent 2022 Forbes 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 University. These 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 Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2025

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number
1	Harvard University	127
2	Stanford University	93
3	University of Pennsylvania	62
4	Columbia University	40
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	39
6	University of Southern California	30
7	Yale University	24
8	New York University	20
9	Cornell University	21
10	Princeton University	20

Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Wealth-X 2019

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number	Combined wealth
1	Harvard University	13,650	$4.769 trillion
2	Stanford University	5,580	$2.899 trillion
3	University of Pennsylvania	5,575	$1.780 trillion
4	Columbia University	3,925	$1.501 trillion
5	New York University	3,380	$712 billion
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2,785	$990 billion
7	University of Cambridge	2,760	$390 billion
8	Northwestern University	2,725	$389 billion
9	University of Southern California	2,645	$748 billion
10	University of Chicago	2,405	$707 billion
11	Yale University	2,400	$777 billion
12	University of California, Berkeley	1,385	$260 billion
13	University of Oxford	2,290	$349 billion
14	Cornell University	2,245	$483 billion
15	University of Texas at Austin	2,195	$463 billion
16	Princeton University	2,180	$1.126 trillion
17	University of Notre Dame	2,085	$179 billion
18	University of Miami	1,970	$691 billion
19	INSEAD	1,965	$356 billion
20	University of California, Los Angeles	1,945	$275 billion

Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Altrata 2024

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number
1	Harvard University	17,660
2	Stanford University	7,972
3	University of Pennsylvania	6,017
4	Columbia University	5,528
5	University of Southern California	4,994
6	New York University	4,214
7	Northwestern University	4,354
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4,089
9	London School of Economics	3,921
10	Yale University	3,654
11	National University of Singapore|	3,653
12	University of Chicago	3,588
13	University of Texas System	3,407
14	University of Oxford	3,356
15	Princeton University	3,173
16	Cornell University	2,911
17	University of California, Los Angeles	2,906
18	University of Cambridge	2,849
19	University of Notre Dame	2,804
20	INSEAD	2,625

Global top 20 universities by number of billionaire undergraduate alumni per Wealth-X 2022

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number
1	University of Pennsylvania	25
2	Harvard University	22
3	Yale University	20
4	University of Southern California	20
5	Princeton University	14
5	Cornell University	14
5	Stanford University	14
8	University of California, Berkeley	12
8	University of Mumbai	12
10	London School of Economics and Political Science	12
10	Moscow State University	11
12	Dartmouth College	10
12	University of Michigan	10
12	University of Texas System	10
15	Duke University	9
15	New York University	9
17	Columbia University	8
17	Brown University	8
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7
20	ETH Zurich	6

Global top 11 universities by number of undergraduate billionaire alumni per Forbes 2021

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number	Total Net Worth
1	University of Pennsylvania	29	$284.8 billion
2	Harvard University	28	$207 billion
2	Stanford University	28	$124.4 billion
4	Yale University	21	$140.8 billion
5	University of Southern California	21	$128.5 billion
6	University of Mumbai	20	$162.8 billion
7	Cornell University	18	$65.1 billion
8	New York University	16	$97.5 billion
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	14	$104 billion
10	Columbia University	11	$40.9 billion
11	Princeton University	11	$288.4 billion
12	University of California, Berkeley	11	$82.6 billion

Top 12 US universities by number of undergraduate alumni† on 2023 Forbes 400 list

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number
1	Harvard University	15
2	University of Pennsylvania	14
3	Stanford University	12
3	Yale University	12
5	University of Southern California	11
6	Cornell University	9
7	Princeton University	8
8	Columbia University	7
8	University of Michigan	7
10	Duke University	6
10	University of California, Berkeley	6
10	Dartmouth College	6

Top 11 US universities by number of undergraduate alumni† on 2024 Forbes 400 list

List of universities by number of billionaire alumni

Rank	University	Number
1	University of Pennsylvania	17
2	Harvard University	15
2	Yale University	11
4	University of Southern California	11
5	Stanford University	9
6	Princeton University	8
7	Columbia University	7
7	Cornell University	7
7	University of Michigan	7
10	Dartmouth College	6
10	New York University	6

† Includes only those alumni who received undergraduate degrees