For every one opening at Harvard, there are 14 hopeful applicants. Despite the daunting odds, there’s good reason to try to win one of those coveted acceptance letters.
Harvard is consistently ranked as one of the top schools. Its $35 billion endowment makes it the best-funded universities in the world. Oh, and there’s this: Harvard students are more likely to become billionaires than graduates of any other university.
Of the 469 Americans on Forbes’ most recent list of the world’s billionaires, 50 received at least one degree from Harvard. The school has produced 20 more current American billionaires than No. 2 on our list, Stanford University.
Harvard’s billionaire alumni are an accomplished group. They include Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer (and Bill Gates of course), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and media tycoon Sumner Redstone.
Stanford University trails Harvard, but still boasts 30 billionaire alumni. These include Nike co-founder Philip Knight and discount brokerage mogul Charles Schwab.
Following Stanford is the University of Pennsylvania, with 27 graduates. Notable members of the group include real estate king Donald Trump and SAC Capital founder Steven Cohen.
Rounding out the top five are Yale, with 19 billionaire graduates, and Columbia University, with 15.
What makes certain schools billionaire factories? For one thing, they offer excellent educations. But they also offer exclusive networking.
Some programs, like business schools, are more likely to produce super-high earners. Of Penn’s 27 billionaire graduates, 20 attended its prestigious Wharton business school.
Strong research programs in developing areas of technology are important too. Sergey Brin and Larry Page met at Stanford’s storied computer science program. The Google co-founders are now worth nearly $19 billion each.
Selectivity also helps. The best schools are overwhelmed by applicants each fall. Acceptance rates for nearly all of the top billionaire-producing schools are below 30%. The low acceptance rates ensure that incoming classes are exceptionally smart. They’re full of people whose résumés already point to great successes ahead.
美國《富比世》雜誌報導，根據最新統計，哈佛大學培養出最多的億萬富豪，連續五年榮登億萬富豪搖籃大學榜首，其次為史丹福大學和賓州大學。
哈佛校友有五十四人年收入超過十位數（十億美元），佔了全球億萬富豪榜的五％以上，最著名的當屬微軟創辦人蓋茲，他是世界首富之一。此外還有社交網站Facebook的創辦人祖克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg)，他在美國四百富豪排行榜上位居第三二一名，財產估計十五億美元。
其他富豪校友包括三位對沖基金經理人。法爾康（Philip Falcone）當年主修經濟，鮑森(John Paulson）則是企業管理碩士，葛理芬（Ken Griffin)）還在讀大學時，就在哈佛宿舍創業。
史丹福億萬富豪校友只有哈佛大學一半，包括雅虎（Yahoo!）創辦人楊致遠。賓州大學計有十八位億萬富豪校友，其中十四人畢業於該校著名的華頓商學院。哥倫比亞大學和耶魯大學並列第四，各有十六位億萬富豪校友。
Extracted from Forbes 美國《富比世》雜誌
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