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Among 3,184 billionaires analyzed, 45.38% came from only 100 top universities. Within this group, the top 10 institutions account for 35.99% of billionaire alumni. Harvard University not only leads in quantity with 134 billionaire alumni but is also associated with approximately $1.235 trillion in assets, equivalent to 9.09% of the total assets of all billionaires in the study sample. By contrast, the University of Maryland ranks first in average assets per billionaire, at $34.34 billion, with 8 billionaire alumni, nearly four times Harvard's average of $9.22 billion per billionaire. The study also shows that only three schools have total alumni assets exceeding $1 trillion: Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania. The United States and China account for 51.43% of the schools that produce billionaires in the ranking. Regarding majors, business and economics are the most common fields among billionaires, accounting for 35.11%, followed by engineering with 13.63% and computer science at 4.3%. In total, 1,445 billionaires who studied at the top 100 universities hold 80.78% of the total assets of billionaires worldwide, equivalent to about $10.97 trillion of the $13.58 trillion total. Only Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania are simultaneously in the top 10 both by the number of billionaire alumni and by assets per capita. Notably, Asian universities feature prominently in the rankings. Specifically, among the top 20, China has three representatives — Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University, and Peking University — while India has two representatives — the University of Mumbai and the University of Delhi.
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