Top 15 Universities Ranked by Wealthy Alumni

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Percentages, people.

Percentages are definitely important, but the only real outliers I see here in terms of size are NYU, USC, Berkeley, UT Austin, and Michigan, which are significantly larger schools than the rest.

INSEAD in France is absolutely tiny and much newer compared to the rest of the schools on this list, and still ranks in the top 20 which is very, very impressive.

Says someone who has absolutely ZERO understanding of the basics of business fundamentals. I suggest stick to your own knitting!

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to now see the stats broken up by race and gender.

I suspect that White people will top the list. This is not meritocracy. We see how stupid Trump and his Ivy-League cronies are.

It is just the benefit of being racially exploitative.

Yawn. Same old broken record. URMs are admitted to these schools hand over fist - they are *sought out*.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich kids end up being rich adults.

This. Does the link state whether they got rich BECUASE they went to that college, or arrived there rich and Grandmummy's investments continued to provide a nice income for everyone in perpetuity?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rich kids end up being rich adults.

This. Does the link state whether they got rich BECUASE they went to that college, or arrived there rich and Grandmummy's investments continued to provide a nice income for everyone in perpetuity?

You are all failing miserably at reading comprehension. This question has already been addressed multiple times in this thread already.

The source actually carves out the percentages of each of the top 20 US schools based on 3 categories: self-made, inheritance + self-made, and inheritance.

Other than the two outliers of USC and Boston University, the UHNWIs at the top 20 schools are 70%+ self-made, which is respectable.

It's a few pages down:
https://www.wealthx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08...Worth-Alumni-Rankings-2019.pdf

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It would be really nice if they did it by percentages.

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I do not make the list, for sure, but glad to see UVA up there so high. Somewhat surprised, but I got a degree in education, so I was not in that circle. Good to see, nonetheless, and that such a high percentage of the UVA grads that make up this population have "self-made" wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested to see how SLACs would fare, if you looked only at undergraduate programs.

LACs only have a fraction of the alumni of many of these schools and no graduate schools. (It wouldn't surprise me if Harvard Business School on its own could be top 3.) If you take a look at Princeton, it is ranked just below UT Austin in the number of high net worth alumni (but higher net worth of high net worth alumni), but Texas has about 5.8X as many alumni. Princeton, although relatively small, still has 4.25X as many alumni as a an SLAC.

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I think rankings by median income instead of most multimillionaires are far more useful. This is interesting but what are you going to do, pick Harvard in the hopes that your BA from a fancy school is going to make you wealthy?

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Anonymous wrote:I do not make the list, for sure, but glad to see UVA up there so high. Somewhat surprised, but I got a degree in education, so I was not in that circle. Good to see, nonetheless, and that such a high percentage of the UVA grads that make up this population have "self-made" wealth.

I suspect a high percentage of UVA's came from Darden and then McIntire.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be really nice if they did it by percentages.

Undergraduate only and by percentage of graduates (or per 10K alumni, for instance) would be more significant. Princeton would not be behind quite a few schools above it by this metric.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not make the list, for sure, but glad to see UVA up there so high. Somewhat surprised, but I got a degree in education, so I was not in that circle. Good to see, nonetheless, and that such a high percentage of the UVA grads that make up this population have "self-made" wealth.

I suspect a high percentage of UVA's came from Darden and then McIntire.

I certainly suspect that is true, not from Curry.

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Anonymous wrote:I think rankings by median income instead of most multimillionaires are far more useful. This is interesting but what are you going to do, pick Harvard in the hopes that your BA from a fancy school is going to make you wealthy?

All the guys I know who went from Harvard undergrad straight to finance are now very, very rich. Some are retired. None went for an MBA or law school. Class of ‘03.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

1 (1) Harvard University
2 (2) Stanford University
3 (3) University of Pennsylvania
4 (4) Columbia University
5 (5) New York University
6 (6) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
7 (8) Northwestern University
8 (9) University of Southern California
9 (10) University of Chicago
10 (11) Yale University
11 (12) University of California, Berkeley
12 (14) Cornell University
13 (15) The University of Texas at Austin
14 (16) Princeton University
15 (17) University of Notre Dame
16 (18) University of Michigan
17 (20) University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
18 (22) University of Virginia
19 (23) Boston University
20 (24) University of Miami

Where's Duke? Where's Emory? Where's Vanderbilt?

"Reflecting the UHNW population at large, the vast majority of UHNW alumni of these institutions have created their own wealth. At 84%, the UHNW alumni of the University of Virginia and University of Chicago show the highest proportion of self-made people."

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Are wealthier universities (or more accurately, universities attended by the wealthy) inherently better universities? I think not, but I think a higher concentration of wealth confers a certain degree of prestige.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested to see how SLACs would fare, if you looked only at undergraduate programs.

LACs only have a fraction of the alumni of many of these schools and no graduate schools. (It wouldn't surprise me if Harvard Business School on its own could be top 3.) If you take a look at Princeton, it is ranked just below UT Austin in the number of high net worth alumni (but higher net worth of high net worth alumni), but Texas has about 5.8X as many alumni. Princeton, although relatively small, still has 4.25X as many alumni as a an SLAC.

I graduated form a top 3 business school and LACs were definitely over-represented in my class. I would guess they would farer quite well in a comparative assessment against research universities.