According to a recent study from researchers at Duke University, the majority of billionaires are highly educated and intelligent. Results show that 45 percent of billionaires ranked in the top 1 percent most intelligent people in the United States, along with 39 percent of Fortune 500 company CEOs.
According to a recent study from researchers at Duke University, the majority of billionaires are highly educated and intelligent.
Results show that 45 percent of billionaires ranked in the top 1 percent of most intelligent people in the United States, along with 39 percent of Fortune 500 company CEOs.
Nearly a third of the billionaires in the world went to the 29 highest ranked schools as defined by the study, and the billionaires with the most money are even more likely to have attended one of these prestigious schools.
Jonathan Wai, a research scientist from Duke University who worked on the study, is quoted as saying: “I was surprised by the extent to which elite schools within each country tend to serve as influential filters for who ends up as a member of these groups of the global elite, specifically the overrepresentation of people who had attended Harvard University.”
Harvard has reportedly cranked out the most billionaires, with alumni accounting for one out of ten billionaires in the United States, and one out of twenty worldwide.
Many of the billionaires who pursued higher education studied either science, technology, engineering, math, or business.
