Monday, December 13, 2010

Will education make you a Billionaire?

Or, which education is most likely to lead you to be a billionaire?



According to Forbes, out of all the college educated people, more have graduated from a Harvard School than any other institution.

Steve Balmer, now CEO of Microsoft, graduated from Harvard in 1977.  Summer Redstone earned two degrees and completed them in three years.  He progressed his career from lawyer to CEO of Viacom and is now the largest shareholder of VIACOM and CBS Corporation.  Michael Bloomberg is now New York City major, and he apparently still supports his Alma Mater.

However, not all Billionaires completed university. 

William (Bill) Gates III took a leave of extended absence from the Harvard Business School when he began Micro-Soft and never returned.



Mark Zuckerberg did the same thing after he had rolled out Facebook to other campuses outside Harvard.  Clearly these two Harvard students didn't need to graduate.

Forbes reports, however, that many of these students probably didn't know they would be billionaires when they entered the Ivy League School.  Instead, it was their internal drive that caused them to continue to strive to achieve beyond their best.

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