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

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 Cornell University 21 9 Princeton University 20 10 New York University 20

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

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 $2.780 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 Oxford 2,290 $349 billion 13 Cornell University 2,245 $483 billion 14 University of Texas at Austin 2,195 $463 billion 15 Princeton University 2,180 $1.126 trillion 16 University of Notre Dame 2,085 $179 billion 17 University of California, Los Angeles 1,945 $275 billion 18 University of Miami 1,970 $691 billion 19 INSEAD 1,965 $356 billion 20 University of California, Berkeley 1,385 $260 billion

Global top 20 universities by number of ultra high net worth alumni (>$30 million) per Altrata 2024 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 Singapore3,653 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

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 1210 Moscow State University1112 Dartmouth College1012 University of Michigan1012 University of Texas System1015 Duke University915 New York University917 Columbia University817 Brown University819 Massachusetts Institute of Technology720 ETH Zurich6

Global top 11 universities by number of undergraduate billionaire alumni per Forbes 2021 Rank University NumberTotal Net Worth 1 University of Pennsylvania 29$1,284.8 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 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 610 University of California, Berkeley610 Dartmouth College6

Top 11 US universities by number of undergraduate alumni† on 2024 Forbes 400 list 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 Cornell University 7 7 Columbia University 7 7 University of Michigan 710 Dartmouth College610 New York University6

† Includes only those alumni who received undergraduate degrees

See also List of countries by number of billionaires List of cities by number of billionaires

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