From Bernard Arnault to Mukesh Ambani, India Times lists some of the world’s richest people, billionaires, and their academic achievements.
Bernard Arnault
The richest person in the world according to Forbes magazine Bernard Arnault is the founder and president of the luxury brand LVMH. Regarding his education, Encyclopedia Britannica says he graduated with a degree in engineering from the Polytechnic University of Paris.
Elon Musk
One of the richest men in the world and the owner of the X platform Elon Musk graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He has a bachelor’s degree in arts and sciences.
Jeff Bezos
The head of Amazon has a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He graduated from Princeton University.
Larry Ellison
The head of the technology department at the American multinational computer technology company Oracle is one of the richest billionaires in the world. He dropped out of college. He first studied at the University of Illinois and then at the University of Chicago. However, he gave up formal education and spent 10 years writing computer codes for various clients.
Mark Zuckerberg
One of the founders and head of Meta (former Facebook) Mark Zuckerberg studied at Harvard, but dropped out of college.
Warren Buffett
One of the most famous investors in the world, Warren Buffett, graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1950. After that, he studied economics at Columbia.
Bill Gates
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard after just three semesters to start a business venture – Microsoft – with friend Paul Allen.
Mukesh Ambani
The richest Indian, Mukesh Ambani, owns the multinational conglomerate Reliance Industries, which deals in energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, telecommunications, mass media and textiles. He studied business administration at Stanford, but gave up his studies to help his father, Dhirubhai Ambani, who was then building a company, India Times writes.
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