So, the major was probably some kind of science. I can’t find exactly what software big shot Larry Ellison majored in, but have read that he attended the University of Illinois in the 1960s with a plan to become a doctor and that he “was named science student of the year” – maybe ironically, since the first source says he failed to maintain a C average. He then earned a Master of Science in economics at Columbia Business School. After two years he transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where at age 20 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business administration. The Oracle of Omaha – enrolled at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as a business major. Major: Business administration, economics He then started a business making and selling bathrobes before opening his first Zara store in 1975. As a young teen he started working as a shop hand for a shirtmaker in his hometown of La Coruna. ![]() He’s known as the “Warren Buffett of Mexico,” apparently, and his fortune comes from interests in such things as communications, real estate, airlines, media, technology, retailing, and finance.įashion mogul, Ortega, didn’t pursue higher education. Mexican business magnate, Slim Helu, studied civil engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico School of Engineering, where he also taught Algebra and Linear Programming at the same time. Programmer-turned business tycoon, Gates, started at Harvard as a pre-law major in 1973, but soon shifted focus, quickly ran through “the university’s most rigorous mathematics and graduate level computer science courses,” says NPR, then dropped out and founded Microsoft.Ĭhairman & CEO of Telmex, América Móvil and Grupo Carso Here are the top ten (mostly self made) richest people in the world, according to Forbes, and their university majors.įounder of Microsoft, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEO of Cascade Investment ![]() Of those who attended, whether or not they got degrees, you can probably guess what the most popular majors are. Six of the top ten either dropped out of or never attended college/university. So, what did they study at school? Well, if there is an overlying theme, the answer is: nothing. ![]() I didn’t hand out the fortunes.īut they only have the rank for America’s richest, so not everyone has one.Īnyway. Neither do his sister Alice or sister in law Christy, which means this list features only men. Jim Walton, meanwhile, who is #9 on the Forbes list gets a 2, because he was born into the Walmart fortune. So, Oprah Winfrey, for example (who doesn’t make this list because she’s way down on the Forbes list) gets a 10, because she rose up from pretty much nothing. The Forbes 400 has a self-made score, a rank from 1-10 that measures how much wealth and privilege people started out with. I looked at Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people and filtered out those who are not mostly self-made. Have you ever wondered what the self-made richest people on Earth studied in university? I have.
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