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Educational Qualifications Of Top Billionaires

6 March 2024

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Some of the wealthiest people completed their education from premier institutes while others dropped out of college to pursue their passion

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Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, studied electrical engineering and computer science at Princeton University

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Elon Musk, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He also enrolled in a PhD programme at Stanford University but dropped out in two days

CEO of LVMH Bernard Arnault has an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in France

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Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard University to focus on the development of Facebook

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Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard after two years to start Microsoft which made him one of the world's richest

Steve Ballmer, the sixth richest person, graduated with bachelor's degrees from Harvard University.
He joined Stanford University but dropped out later

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet graduated from Wharton University and then completed Master of Science in economics from Columbia Business School

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison dropped out of two colleges- University of Illinois and the University of Chicago 

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, completed bachelors from the University of Michigan and later earned a master's degree from Stanford University

Former President of Google Sergey Brin studied at University of Maryland and earned his master's degree in computer science at Stanford University

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