World's top 100 universities for producing millionaires

Universities in the UK produce the second highest number of millionaires in the world after the US, according to a new league table from Spear’s magazine and WealthInsight

November 4, 2013

Compare these rankings to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014


Both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge make the top ten of the list, compiled by data research company WealthInsight and business magazine Spear’s, with 42 UK universities including Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and Bradford making it into the top 500.

Engineering degrees produce the most millionaires, the research finds, while MBAs, law, accounting, and finance also lead to financial success. To compile the list, WealthInsight went through a database of 70,000 dollar millionaires in more than 200 countries.

“You would expect to see a high number of scientific or financial degrees in the top 10, like engineering, commerce and accounting,” said WealthInsight analyst Oliver Williams. “But, interestingly, few of these degrees turn out to be outright vocational; most engineering graduates, for example, are not engineers but entrepreneurs. The same goes for most law and politics graduates, who owe their fortunes not to practising their professions but climbing the ranks of the financial services sector.”

The other UK universities making the top 500 are: the London School of Economics (LSE) (), the University of London (45), London Business School (63), Imperial College (68), Bristol University (102), University College London (114), Edinburgh University (115), Leeds University (148), Southampton University (150), the University of Manchester (152), Newcastle University (168), Durham University (173), Birmingham University (215), Nottingham University ( 217), Liverpool University (238), Glasgow University (267), Lancaster University (296), Sheffield University (299), University of Bradford (460).

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World’s top 100 universities for producing millionaires

RankInstitution
1Harvard University (USA)
2Harvard Business School (USA)
3Stanford University (USA)
4University of California (USA)
5Columbia University (USA)
6University of Oxford (UK)
7Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA)
8New York University (NYU) (USA)
9University of Cambridge (UK)
10University of Pennsylvania (USA)
11Cornell University (USA)
12University of Michigan (USA)
13Yale University (USA)
14University of Chicago (USA)
15INSEAD (France)
16Tel Aviv University (Israel)
17University of Texas (USA)
18Sciences Po (Institut d’études politiques de Paris) (France)
19University of Southern California (USA)
20École Polytechnique (France)
21Northwestern University (USA)
22Princeton University (USA)
23HEC Paris (France)
24Bocconi University (Italy)
25University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School (USA)
26University of Illinois (USA)
London School of Economics (LSE) (UK)
28University of Virginia (USA)
29University of Wisconsin (USA)
30Duke University (USA)
31University of California, Berkeley (USA)
32Paris-Sorbonne University (France)
33University of New South Wales (Australia)
34California State University (USA)
35Georgetown University (USA)
36Paris Dauphine University (France)
37University of Toronto (Canada)
38Washington University (USA)
39Dartmouth College (USA)
40McGill University (Canada
41Boston University (USA)
42Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
43Purdue University (USA)
44Sydney University (Australia)
45University of London (UK)
46Melbourne University (Australia)
47Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)
48Ohio State University (USA)
49University of Florida (USA)
50University of Missouri (USA)
51George Washington University (USA)
52University of Minnesota (USA)
53Miami University (USA)
54Michigan State University (USA)
55University of British Columbia (Canada)
56University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
57University of Colorado (USA)
58Indiana University, Bloomington (USA)
59University of Notre Dame (USA)
60Queen’s University (Canada)
61Rutgers University (USA)
62Brown University (USA)
63London Business School (UK)
64Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
65Ecole Nationale d’Administration (France)
66Essec Business School Paris (France)
67Stanford Business School (USA)
68Imperial College (UK)
69Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
70University of North Carolina (USA)
71Southern Methodist University (USA)
72Columbia Business School (USA)
73Monash University (Australia)
74Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
75Texas A&M University (USA)
76Vanderbilt University (USA)
77Boston College (USA)
78University of Western Ontario (Canada)
79University of Cape Town (South Africa)
80Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
81Moscow State University (Russia)
82University of Maryland (USA)
83University of Houston (USA)
84University of Kansas (USA)
85Louisiana State University (USA)
86Tulane University (USA)
87University of Queensland (Australia)
88Delhi University (India)
89Stockholm University (Sweden)
90La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
91State University of New York (USA)
92Tufts University (USA)
93University of Arizona (USA)
94Fordham University (USA)
95University of Western Australia (Australia)
96National University of Singapore (Singapore)
97Northeastern University (USA)
98MIT Sloan School of Management (USA)
99Brigham Young University (USA)
100University of Massachusetts (USA)


Top 10 most popular degrees for millionaires

RankSubject
1Engineering
2MBA
3Law
4Economics
5(Bachelor’s) Business administration  (BBA)
6Commerce
7Accounting
8Computer science
9Finance
10Politics


Top 10 universities most attended by millionaires

RankInstitution
1Harvard University
2Stanford University
3University of California
4Columbia University
5University of Oxford
6Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
7New York University (NYU)
8University of Cambridge
9University of Pennsylvania
10Cornell University


Top countries with universities in the top 500

RankCountry
1USA
2UK
3Canada
4France
5India
6Germany
7Italy
8China
9Russia
10Sweden

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Reader's comments (3)

Hi Edouard. Thanks for this. This isn't a Times Higher Ranking, as the article specifies. I have contacted the publishers, and they inform me it relates to institutions that fall under Paris-Sorbonne University.
You should get in touch with Spear's magazine, or WealthInsight. Hope that helps!
Hi Patricia. The original data that we were sent by Spear's and WealthInsight - the organisations that produced this table (it is not a THE ranking) - contained errors. These errors have been corrected, and the table above is now accurate.

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