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Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumni

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:27 pm
by AfricanMustang

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:57 pm
by East Coast Mustang
Hunt, Ford, and....?

Trevor Rees-Jones got his law degree from SMU, does that count?

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:06 pm
by RGV Pony
Loyd would be my guess

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:24 pm
by One Trick Pony
Big deal

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:41 pm
by smupony94
Maybe one will pay for the IPF

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 8:24 pm
by Alaric
Feels weird to type this but my old classmate from '93(just because he's young to be a billionaire:

Tom Dundon

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:08 pm
by One Trick Pony
I'd like to run up a billion dollars worth of debt

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 10:00 pm
by SoCal_Pony
The DMN ran an article a couple of years ago that said SMU had more billionaire law school graduates than any other school.

So I don't understand why we only have 3 now, unless some dropped off.

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:55 pm
by AfricanMustang
SoCal_Pony wrote:The DMN ran an article a couple of years ago that said SMU had more billionaire law school graduates than any other school.

So I don't understand why we only have 3 now, unless some dropped off.


SMU has five from the law school alone, so this this is just for the undergrad.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithor ... f6e8c96512

Undergrad Billionaires:
Ray L. Hunt, Oilman
Gerald J. Ford, Banker
Jim Irsay, Owner - Indianapolis Colts
John H. Tyson, Chairman - Tyson Foods

http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-tyson/?list=rtb

Law School Billionaires:
Robert Rowling, the owner of the holding company controlling the Omni Hotels and Gold’s Gym chains.
Gerald J. Ford, the noted Texas banker and businessman (not the former president).
Trevor Rees-Jones, a Dallas businessman.
Helmut Sohmen, chairman of BW Group, a huge shipping conglomerate, who lives in Hong Kong.
Hong-Tu Tsai, Taiwanese financier with stakes in the broad Cathay empire that includes airlines and real estate.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/head ... -grads.ece

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:31 pm
by Stallion
Since Texas is a community property state-Sarah Fullinwider Perot. Ross graduated from Vandy

http://www.forbes.com/profile/h-ross-perot-jr/

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 8:16 pm
by AfricanMustang
Stallion wrote:Since Texas is a community property state-Sarah Fullinwider Perot. Ross graduated from Vandy

http://www.forbes.com/profile/h-ross-perot-jr/


The law extends even to business interests? In any case, Forbes says he is worth about $1.55 Billion, so she would be worth about $0.775 billion.

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 4:55 pm
by rodrod5
this article is not close to accurate

UT has Dell, Moncrief, McCombs, Moulay Abdallah ben Ali Alaoui, Jeffery Hildebrand, David Geffen, Hicks and probably several others as well

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 8:14 pm
by gostangs
Hicks is not a billionaire. Doubt geffen is either.

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:26 pm
by Pony81
Hildebrand probably tumbled out of billionaire status with oil at $45. McCombs was never a billionaire.
Dell is. Moncrief could be but is also oil patch wealth.

Re: Top 28 American Colleges With The Most Billionaire Alumn

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:43 pm
by AfricanMustang
rodrod5 wrote:this article is not close to accurate

UT has Dell, Moncrief, McCombs, Moulay Abdallah ben Ali Alaoui, Jeffery Hildebrand, David Geffen, Hicks and probably several others as well


Moulay Abdallah ben Ali Alaoui is not a billionaire either. Not sure how the article is defining 'alumni'; but David Geffen and Michael Dell did not earn their degrees from there. Yes, the schools count the, not sure the criteria the article is using. I think they are considering only those with degrees.

"Penn has more billionaires among its alumni than any other university in the United States. 21 current billionaires have undergraduate or graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania."