Schools with most Billionaires

Academic Excellence
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Note list excludes counting people like Mark Zuckerberg who dropped out. Also
notice the lack of Texas schools presence here and the few schools that participate in D1 football. I counted only 5 of the 14.

And 1/3 of the schools are foreign.

Schools with the most billionaire alumni, ranked

Here is a list of the 21 universities that have the most billionaire alumni:

  1. Harvard University: 104
  2. Stanford University: 69
  3. University of Pennsylvania: 38
  4. Columbia University: 32
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 28
  6. Yale University: 24
  7. Cornell University: 22
  8. University of Mumbai (India): 22
  9. Tsinghua University (China): 19
  10. New York University: 18
  11. University of Southern California: 17
  12. University of California, Berkeley: 15 (tie)
  13. University of Michigan: 15 (tie)
  14. Peking University (China): 14
  15. Moscow State University (Russia): 13 (tie)
  16. Princeton University: 13 (tie)
  17. University of California, Los Angeles: 12 (tie)
  18. University of Chicago: 12 (tie)
  19. Fudan University (China): 12 (tie)
  20. Seoul National University (South Korea): 12 (tie)
  21. Zhejiang University (China): 12 (tie)
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Correction.

Only five P4/I-FBS schools are on the list.

Five Ivies are on the list.

They also participate in Division I football (FCS).

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Thanks for the correction. There are only 5 playing in the highest tier.

I was hard pressed to find number of UH alumni that are in the billionaire range.
Fertitta took some classes, but is not a graduate. Who am I overlooking ?

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Tony Buzbee is close.

About $700 million last I checked.

My law school classmate.

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It’s a pretty elite group to make that top
21 list. At this point, I’m not sure how many ( if any ?) , we may have.

Where did you see Buzbee is worth 700 million ? All I can find is estimates of around 50 million. Maybe you confused that with value of client cases he has won and not his personal net worth ?

Dec 9, 2024 — As of 2024, Tony Buzbee’s net worth is estimated at $50 million, reflecting his success as one of Texas’s top

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/tony-buzbee-is-representing-over-150-of-diddys-alleged-victims-what-is-his-net-worth/ar-AA1vBJ2M

Regardless of his net worth, he seems to identify more as an Aggie.

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Indeed.

Which is bad, given that it is his UH law degree that is the source of his wealth, NOT his Aggie bachelor’s degree.

Anyway, I had seen $700 million at one point, but my last Google search seems to confirm what you say.

I stand corrected.

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That said, Randa Williams is definitely a multi-billionaire.

She has a law degree from UH, though her undergrad is from Rice.

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Wow, she is loaded. I actually did not know anything about her. That Rice UH split makes me wonder who can claim her :wink: Hope she a Buzbee opposite. Looks like
the Duncan Family Foundation is oriented to supporting medical and health institutions. Hopefully the UH med school will benefit from them in the future.

While doing my search for other Houston billionaires, I was looking at Rich and Nancy Kinder. No they are not UH grads, but they have a net worth of 8.1 billion and have pledged to give away 95% of it. Cool thing about them is they like to target their philanthropy in the community they live and education is one of their
foundations areas. Rice has gotten some nice sized donations as well as
SMU ( ugh ) and Missouri. But UH has been shut out from them so far :frowning:

Funny quote from Rich…

“Being rich doesn’t make you smart, you know, and a lot of rich people should be hit over the head with that idea. Some of them are here in Texas, too,” Rich says with a chuckle.

Nice write up about them; seem very down to earth.

https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2024/06/nancy-rich-kinder-transform-houston

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So, we have one?

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Maybe.
Depends on how you count and who is doing the counting.
If based on undergrads that are billionaires, the UT Sytem shows up as #12
with count of 10.

I’m kinda surprised to not see Cal Tech or Notre Dame on these lists.

Global top 20 universities by number of billionaire undergraduate alumni per Wealth-X 2014[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Rank University Number
1 United States University of Pennsylvania 25
2 United States Harvard University 22
3 United States Yale University 20
4 United States University of Southern California 16
5 United States Princeton University 14
5 United States Cornell University 14
5 United States Stanford University 14
8 United States University of California, Berkeley 12
8 India University of Mumbai 12
10 United Kingdom London School of Economics and Political Science 11
10 Russia Moscow State University 11
12 United States Dartmouth College 10
12 United States University of Michigan 10
12 United States University of Texas System 10
15 United States Duke University 9
15 United States New York University 9
17 United States Columbia University 8
17 United States Brown University 8
19 United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7
20 Switzerland ETH Zurich
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