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
<table><thead><tr><th>Rank</th><th>University</th><th>Number</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Harvard University</td><td>127</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Stanford University</td><td>93</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>University of Pennsylvania</td><td>62</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Columbia University</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>University of Southern California</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Yale University</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>New York University</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>Cornell University</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Princeton University</td><td>20</td></tr></tbody></table>
Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Wealth-X 2019
<table><thead><tr><th>Rank</th><th>University</th><th>Number</th><th>Combined wealth</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Harvard University</td><td>13,650</td><td>$4.769 trillion</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Stanford University</td><td>5,580</td><td>$2.899 trillion</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>University of Pennsylvania</td><td>5,575</td><td>$1.780 trillion</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Columbia University</td><td>3,925</td><td>$1.501 trillion</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>New York University</td><td>3,380</td><td>$712 billion</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td><td>2,785</td><td>$990 billion</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>University of Cambridge</td><td>2,760</td><td>$390 billion</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>Northwestern University</td><td>2,725</td><td>$389 billion</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>University of Southern California</td><td>2,645</td><td>$748 billion</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>University of Chicago</td><td>2,405</td><td>$707 billion</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>Yale University</td><td>2,400</td><td>$777 billion</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>University of California, Berkeley</td><td>1,385</td><td>$260 billion</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>University of Oxford</td><td>2,290</td><td>$349 billion</td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td>Cornell University</td><td>2,245</td><td>$483 billion</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>University of Texas at Austin</td><td>2,195</td><td>$463 billion</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td>Princeton University</td><td>2,180</td><td>$1.126 trillion</td></tr><tr><td>17</td><td>University of Notre Dame</td><td>2,085</td><td>$179 billion</td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td>University of Miami</td><td>1,970</td><td>$691 billion</td></tr><tr><td>19</td><td>INSEAD</td><td>1,965</td><td>$356 billion</td></tr><tr><td>20</td><td>University of California, Los Angeles</td><td>1,945</td><td>$275 billion</td></tr></tbody></table>
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