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Penn: Most Grads on the Forbes 400

Forbes recently ranked colleges and universities with the most graduates who are members of The Forbes 400, the publication’s list of the wealthiest Americans. It does not include college dropouts like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. The 79 percent of Forbes 400 members who are college graduates went to a total of 155 schools. 

According to the story, Penn “top[ped] the list thanks largely to its renowned business school, Wharton. The cofounder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, for one, has said that his interest in space and electronic vehicles started when he was a student at Wharton. Jonathan Gray majored in business and English at Penn .... He started as an asset manager at Blackstone Group and later ascended to the head of the firm’s real estate group. He is now COO and president and is considered a potential successor to cofounder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman. President Donald Trump, who transferred there from Fordham University in the Bronx, Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs and investors Howard Marks and Ronald Perelman also got their undergraduate degrees from Penn.”

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