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.[1] 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.[2]

Global top 10 universities by number of billionaire alumni per Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2025

Rank[3]UniversityNumber
1United States Harvard University127
2United States Stanford University93
3United States University of Pennsylvania62
4United States Columbia University40
5United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology39
6United States University of Southern California30
7United States Yale University24
8United States Cornell University21
9United States Princeton University20
10United States New York University20

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

Rank[4]UniversityNumberCombined wealth
1United States Harvard University13,650$4.769 trillion
2United States Stanford University5,580$2.899 trillion
3United States University of Pennsylvania5,575$2.780 trillion
4United States Columbia University3,925$1.501 trillion
5United States New York University3,380$712 billion
6United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology2,785$990 billion
7United Kingdom University of Cambridge2,760$390 billion
8United States Northwestern University2,725$389 billion
9United States University of Southern California2,645$748 billion
10United States University of Chicago2,405$707 billion
11United States Yale University2,400$777 billion
12United Kingdom University of Oxford2,290$349 billion
13United States Cornell University2,245$483 billion
14United States University of Texas at Austin2,195$463 billion
15United States Princeton University2,180$1.126 trillion
16United States University of Notre Dame2,085$179 billion
17University of California, Los Angeles1,945$275 billion
18United States University of Miami1,970$691 billion
19FranceSingaporeUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States INSEAD1,965$356 billion
20United States University of California, Berkeley1,385$260 billionUnited States

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

Rank[5][6][7]UniversityNumber
1United States Harvard University17,660
2United States Stanford University7,972
3United States University of Pennsylvania6,017
4United States Columbia University5,528
5United States University of Southern California4,994
6United States New York University4,214
7United States Northwestern University4,354
8United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology4,089
9United Kingdom London School of Economics3,921
10United States Yale University3,654
11 Singapore National University of Singapore 3,653
12United States University of Chicago3,588
13United States University of Texas System3,407
14United Kingdom University of Oxford3,356
15United States Princeton University3,173
16United States Cornell University2,911
17United States University of California, Los Angeles2,906
18United Kingdom University of Cambridge2,849
19United States University of Notre Dame2,804
20FranceSingaporeUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States INSEAD2,625

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

Rank[8][9][10][11][12][13]UniversityNumber
1United States University of Pennsylvania25
2United States Harvard University22
3United States Yale University20
4United States University of Southern California20
5United States Princeton University14
5United States Cornell University14
5United States Stanford University14
8United States University of California, Berkeley12
8India University of Mumbai12
10United Kingdom London School of Economics and Political Science12
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 6

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

Rank[14]UniversityNumber Total Net Worth
1United States University of Pennsylvania29 $1,284.8 billion
2United States Harvard University28 $207 billion
2United States Stanford University28 $124.4 billion
4United States Yale University21 $140.8 billion
5United States University of Southern California21 $128.5 billion
6India University of Mumbai20 $162.8 billion
7United States Cornell University18 $65.1 billion
8United States New York University16 $97.5 billion
9United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology14 $104 billion
10United States Columbia University11 $40.9 billion
11United States Princeton University11 $288.4 billion
12United States University of California, Berkeley11 $82.6 billion

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

Rank[15]UniversityNumber
1United States Harvard University15
2United States University of Pennsylvania14
3United States Stanford University12
3United States Yale University12
5United States University of Southern California11
6United States Cornell University9
7United States Princeton University8
8United States Columbia University7
8United States University of Michigan7
10United States Duke University6
10 United States University of California, Berkeley 6
10 United States Dartmouth College 6

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

Rank[16]UniversityNumber
1United States University of Pennsylvania17
2United States Harvard University15
2United States Yale University11
4United States University of Southern California11
5United States Stanford University9
6United States Princeton University8
7United States Cornell University7
7United States Columbia University7
7United States University of Michigan7
10 United States Dartmouth College 6
10 United States New York University 6

† Includes only those alumni who received undergraduate degrees

See also

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