An interesting article appears on the Forbes.com website, indentifying the universities that produced the largest number of the world's billionaires (B's). In order of the number of B's produced:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/02/billionaire-study-harvard-stanford-business-billionaires-colleges-09-wealth.html (1) Harvard (54 B's though they do count college drop-outs Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame) (2) Stanford (25 B's including Yahoo's Jerry Yang) (3) U Penn (18 B's - No, Marty Seligman was not one of them) (4.5) Columbia (16 B's) (4.5) Yale (16 B's (6) MIT (11 B's) (7.5) Northwestern (10 B's) (7.5) U Chicago (10 B's) (10.25) Cornell (9 B's) (10.25) UC Berkeley (9 B's) (10.25) U of Southern Cal (9 B's) (10.25) UT, Austin (9 B's) Full disclosure requires the following: |A dubious distinction goes to New York University. The school |has five dropouts who have gone on to become billionaires, |including Carl Icahn. After receiving a degree in philosophy |from Princeton, Icahn enrolled in NYU's medical school. Bored |by all the memorization required, he jumped ship to be a stockbroker. http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/19/billionaires-harvard-education-biz-billies-cx_af_0519billieu.html However, keep in mind the following: |Of course, you don't necessarily need a degree from |Harvard or Stanford to become a billionaire. Of last |year's Forbes 400, at least 46 billionaires did not have |a college degree. This just underscores the point that if you plot income or "net worth" against level of education, you don't get a linear relationship but an upside down U function. If it were linear, Ph.D.-M.D.s would probably be the richest folks in the world. But education will only get one so far. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
