While the nation's wealthiest graduated from more than 150 universities, these schools have the most Forbes 400 alumni.
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At Columbia, Commisso gained the confidence and motivation that later propelled him onto The Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. Columbia is one of just 12 schools that together can claim more than a quarter of this year’s Forbes 400 as alumni — 112 list members, to be exact. Seventy-one of these billionaires went to seven Ivy League schools — Brown University is the only school from the conference that failed to make it into this elite college dozen.
Two public universities — the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley — are also among the top 12 schools for Forbes 400 members. Berkeley also ranked No.1 onFor Berkeley grad and Forbes 400 member Charles Simonyi, the California school had a big impact. “I left Hungary as a minor , was working like an adult programmer in Denmark for a year, and then became a poor student at Berkeley all within 15 months,” recalls Simonyi.
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