Harvard: 16

Yale: 14

Princeton: 10

Stanford: 9

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/09/26/news/18736.shtml

Yale and Harvard are equal per capita. Princeton trails. Stanford trails even more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8691949)

Undergrad (3+):

Penn (inc Wharton): 17

Yale: 15

Harvard: 13

Princeton: 10

Stanford: 9

UT Austin: 8

Cornell/Dartmouth/Michigan/MIT/UCLA/USC: 7

Columbia: 6

Northwestern/NYU: 5

Berkeley/Claremont-McKenna: 4

Amherst/Arkansas/Baylor/Lehigh/Utah: 3

Business School (2+):

Harvard: 26

Stanford: 16

Penn: 8

Chicago: 6

NYU/Columbia: 3

USC: 2

Law School (2+):

Columbia/Harvard/UVA: 4

Northwestern/SMU: 3

Chicago/NYU/Stanford/Wayne State: 2

Medical School (1+):

Albert Einstein/Hahnemann/Witwatersrand/WUSTL: 1

Grad school (2+):

MIT: 6

Berkeley/Stanford/UCLA: 3

Cambridge: 2

Total (5+):

Harvard: 44

Stanford: 30

Penn: 26

Yale: 15

Columbia/MIT: 13

UCLA: 11

Chicago/Michigan/NYU/Princeton/USC/UT Austin: 10

Cornell/Northwestern: 9

Berkeley/Dartmouth: 8

Duke/UVA: 6

SMU: 5

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8694299)

"Among top-ranked schools, Harvard has the most undergraduate alumni on the Forbes 400 list, with 16 of America's richest citizens having pursued bachelor's degrees there. That figure includes Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard."

Given that the Princetonian article also includes drop-outs (e.g., Bill Gates), there are actually 19 Penn undergrads on the list--or 20 if you include Buffett, who spent 3 years at Wharton before transferring to Nebraska for his senior year--compared to Harvard's allegedly leading number of 16.

Funny how the Daily Princetonian kinda overlooked Penn (must be a basketball rivalry thing). Then again, Penn gets overlooked a lot around here, too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8694538)

Over ten percent of the 400 richest Americans have a Harvard degree

Published On Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:00 AM

By MICHELLE L. QUACH

Contributing Writer

Although Bill Gates, the richest member of this year’s Forbes 400, is Harvard College’s most famous dropout, 42 people on the elite list actually did complete a Harvard degree.

Of all the universities in the U.S., Harvard currently has the highest number of alumni recognized by Forbes magazine’s annual compilation of the wealthiest men and women in the nation. Stanford ranks second with 30 alumni, and the University of Pennsylvania ranks third with 24.

Harvard Business School is the most well-represented division of the university, with 28 graduates on the list, including Fidelity President Abigail P. Johnson ’88 and New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ’66. Both are ranked in the top 25.

The College has 13 alumni who made it onto the list, which places it second behind the undergraduate divisions of both Yale and Penn. Seven people on the list received their undergraduate degrees from Harvard’s neighbor, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Harvard Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are also represented on the list, and four Harvard alumni on the list attended more than one of Harvard’s schools.

The highest ranked Harvard graduate on the list is Steven A. Ballmer ’77—Gates’ business partner at Microsoft.

Gates and Ballmer—who are worth $59 billion and $15 billion respectively—donated $25 million in 1996 to build Maxwell Dworkin, the computer science building near the Law School campus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8695452)

Us USC Trojans are better than you losers, and we know it!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8708799)

I didn't look at the mba since I think mba schools take people that already are successful in business and just stamp on a degree. In contrast, ugrad schools take more of a chance. sats and hs gpas are not as indicative of performance in business than actual work success. So I think schools that have high ugrad success probably can claim more of the credit for the success of their graduates -- especially Penn, which for so many years has lost yield battles with other Ivies.

One last note: some schools like Cornell had most of their ugrad richest come from one family. In the case of Cornell the Johnsons apparently like the school. Penn has alums on the list with almost no family connections, which I think shows a stronger base.

Kudos to Penn!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8766439)

And, again, the Forbes 400 does not tell you anything about colleges.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8768420)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8768430)

You want to get rich? Drop out. Or go to a wall street feeder school. Etc. Stop taking such an immature, childlike approach to college rankings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=692390&forum_id=1#8768457)