#Forbes magazine top high schools 2017 plus#

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and real estate billionaire Jerry Speyer are some of the notable alumni of the school with a ten-figure fortune. While Airbnb cofounder Nathan Blecharczyk and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got their degrees from Harvard – the oldest university in America – its two most famous billionaire attendees, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out. But its undergraduate school, Harvard College, has been a bit less productive. Harvard was, by far, billionaires' most popular graduate school (twenty eight Forbes 400 members have graduate degrees from the university – five more than second-place Stanford). Stevens holds a minority stake in California’s Golden State Warriors NBA team. Exactly 20 years later, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff snagged a degree in business administration, just a few years after Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Stevens graduated with a dual degree in electrical engineering and economics. In 1966, Star Wars creator George Lucas graduated from the school with a degree in cinematic arts. USC has a diverse set of billionaire alumni. University of Southern California: 11 graduates His professor, however, didn’t think the idea was worth an A in the fiscal year ending May 2017, FedEx exceeded $60 billion in revenue for the first time.Ĥ.

Smith had the idea for his shipping network as a senior. The school raised the likes of Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and FedEx founder Fred Smith. Here's one way Yale outperforms its rival Harvard: more of its undergraduate alumni make the Forbes 400. Both Acton, who cofounded Whatsapp upon getting rejected from Facebook in 2009, and Murphy, who (with Stanford dropout and fraternity brother Evan Spiegel) cofounded Snapchat in 2011, roamed the school's halls as computer science students-although 16 years apart. The school produced many tech billionaires on the 400, including Brian Acton and Bobby Murphy. The West Coast university makes the list thanks to its proximity to Silicon Valley. Warren Buffett spent two years at Penn before transferring to the University of Nebraska in his native Omaha.

#Forbes magazine top high schools 2017 plus#

and daughters Ivanka and Tiffany also attended UPenn) plus hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk and casino magnate Steve Wynn.

UPenn graduates include President Donald Trump (his son Donald Trump Jr. The university Benjamin Franklin helped found nearly two centuries ago has conferred more undergraduate degrees to the Forbes 400 than another other school.

Here are the ten schools with the most billionaire alumni (measured by the undergraduate alma mater information from 95% of Forbes 400 members for whom education data was available):ġ.