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. If only bachelor's degrees are counted, the University of Pennsylvania comes in slightly ahead of Harvard, according to a 2014 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. 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 Wealth-X 2018

  1. Harvard University – 188 alumni
  2. Stanford University – 74 alumni
  3. University of Pennsylvania – 64 alumni
  4. Columbia University – 53 alumni
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology38 alumni
  6. Cornell University – 35 alumni
  7. Yale University – 31 alumni
  8. University of Southern California – 29 alumni
  9. University of Chicago – 29 alumni
  10. University of Michigan – 26 alumni

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

  11. Harvard University – 13,650 alumni, combined wealth $4,769 billion
  12. Stanford University – 5,580 alumni, combined wealth $2,899 billion
  13. University of Pennsylvania – 5,575 alumni, combined wealth $1,780 billion
  14. Columbia University – 3,925 alumni, combined wealth $1,501 billion
  15. New York University – 3,380 alumni, combined wealth $712 billion
  16. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 2,785 alumni, combined wealth $990 billion
  17. University of Cambridge – 2,760 alumni, combined wealth $390 billion
  18. Northwestern University – 2,725 alumni, combined wealth $389 billion
  19. University of Southern California – 2,645 alumni, combined wealth $548 billion
  20. University of Chicago – 2,405 alumni, combined wealth $707 billion
  21. Yale University – 2,400 alumni, combined wealth $777 billion
  22. University of California, Berkeley – 2,385 alumni, combined wealth $760 billion
  23. University of Oxford – 2,290 alumni, combined wealth $349 billion
  24. Cornell University – 2,245 alumni, combined wealth $483 billion
  25. University of Texas at Austin – 2,195 alumni, combined wealth $463 billion
  26. Princeton University – 2,180 alumni, combined wealth $1,126 billion
  27. University of Notre Dame – 2,085 alumni, combined wealth $179 billion
  28. University of Michigan – 1,970 alumni, combined wealth $691 billion
  29. INSEAD – 1,965 alumni, combined wealth $356 billion
  30. University of California, Los Angeles – 1,945 alumni, combined wealth $375 billion

    Global top 10 universities by number of billionaire undergraduate alumni per Wealth-X 2014

RankUniversityAmount
1 University of Pennsylvania25
2 Harvard University22
3 Yale University20
4 University of Southern California17
5 Princeton University14
6 Stanford University14
7 Cornell University14
8 University of California, Berkeley12
9 University of Mumbai12
10 University of St. Gallen11