Billionaire universities

Although hard as a Harvard Grad, the richest are prospering.

In recent years, the Harvard alumni who have swelled the number of billionaires, 62 54 last year more than any American University by a long shot.

Good connections to talk: a significant number of these were Classmates 10 chapter titans. Harvard Business School in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and oil and banking tycoon George Kaiser was completed in 1966, hedge-fund Chief Bruce Kovner received a B.A. IN the year in question and the private-equity way between David Bonderman legislation so far.Meg Whitman eBay (EBAY-news-people) and subprime short winner Jeffrey Greene graduated from business school in 1979, even though Apollo Management Leon Black & Hamilton James Blackstone deserved M.B.A. s in 1975. the condition of anonymity to speak, qualified as a billionaire. Alumni told Forbes that business school's student body parts of the system by offering A + network opportunities: "You leave the close relationship between 120." He says he is still most of his part of the minimum age for drivers ' mates.

Secondly, our list of schools that have turned away from most billionaires is Stanford 28 billionaire graduates with up to 25 last year.A training School, there are many who have presented a large Silicon Valley, including a grad student, and Google (GOOG-news-people) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Jerry Yang, who cofounded Yahoo (YHOO-news-people) Vinod Khosla. Sun cofounder and gap (GPS-news-people), Chairman of the Robert Fisher were classmates, with M.B.A. s was completed in 1980.Nike (NKE-news-people) founder Philip Knight earned Stanford Graduate School of business from qualified. in 1962 and reportedly made quiet return on campus a few years ago, creative writing and English classes.

Columbia is the third 20 billionaire graduates with up to 16 last year, including private equity pioneer Henry Kravis and hedge fund tycoons Louis Bacon and Leon Cooperman. Cooperman is used in the carpool business school classmate Mario Gabelli, now with billionaire, as well as the son of a Plumber., Ivy League school loans Cooperman supplies "credentials" to trade with and investment in "Home" to help him in his work to land at Goldman Sachs (GS-news-people), where he rose to head of the asset management division.

To go with its 85 University of Chicago Nobel Prize laureates can boast 13 billionaire graduates more than 10 years on the market of our sixth, the school from the list.U. c. billionaires are Thomas Pritzker, William Conway and David Rubenstein.

For new entrants to the list this year are in the event of a tie, the eighth place in the event of a tie for the tenth day of the 9, 10 billionaire alumni and Princeton University, New York University.

With schools the opportunity to take advantage of the billionaire Grad stand for down the road of benefits.Home DepotCofounder (HD-news-people) Kenneth Langone removed qualified as a part-time program. NYU; later heavy donor in school and now the program has been appointed to him, is a school of the Medical Center. Phil Knight promised to 105 million dollar Knight Management Center Stanford's business school. Hedge-fund honcho Stephen Mandel has helped guide to Dartmouth College recently was elected to the investment strategy and the Chairman of the Board of trustees.

Of course, a degree of Harvard or Stanford is not a prerequisite for becoming a billionaire. last year Forbes 400 41 billionaires had College degrees.

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