Nearly one in five of America’s richest went to an Ivy League school, with the University of Pennsylvania leading the way.
University of Pennsylvania leads with 19, followed by Stanford and Yale, tied for second and third.are routinely ranked on a number of factors: student satisfaction, the quantity of research produced, the faculty and alumni giving rates. To this,adds the rarefied club of graduates who are members of The Forbes 400. It does not include college dropouts like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, who both attended Harvard but never finished.
Perhaps the more surprising conclusion, though, is that where someone goes to college doesn’t matter quite as much as one might think. Just over a fifth of Forbes 400 members never graduated from college. Another 243 went to schools that were not Ivies. That includes a variety of institutions big and small, all over the country and the world.
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