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Study: USC Ranks 4th Globally For Most Billionaire Undergraduate Alumni

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A new report lists the University of Southern California as one of the top schools in the world with the most billionaire alumni.

According to Wealth-X and UBS's "Billionaire Census," USC ranks fourth on the list with 16 billionaires who have attended the private university as undergraduates.

Stanford ranked seventh (14 billionaires), while the University of California Berkeley came in eighth (12 billionaires).

The University of Pennsylvania took the number one spot on the top 20 schools list with 25 billionaires, followed by Harvard and Yale.

The study also found that more than 2,300 global billionaires earned bachelor's degrees from more than 700 universities around the world.

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