List of COLLEGE DROPOUT BILLIONAIRES:
This list of college-dropout billionaires is based (where not otherwise noted) on an annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled and published by Forbes magazine on March 11, 2009. The list does not include heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see List of heads of state and government by net worth). College dropout refers to a person who has dropped out from a college or university before completing his/her degree. Some of the world's most famous and richest billionaires are college dropouts. The combined net worth of these dropouts is USD 246 billion This list is not exhaustive.
The average net worth of billionaires who dropped out of college, $9.4 billion, is approximately triple that of billionaires with Ph.D.s, $3.2 billion. Even if one removes Bill Gates, who left Harvard University and is now worth $66.0 billion, college dropouts are worth $5.3 billion on average, compared to those who finished only bachelor's degrees, who are worth $2.9 billion. According to a recent report from Cambridge-based Forrester Research, 20% of America's millionaires never attended college.
List of college-dropout billionaires
- Bill Gates – US
- Mark Zuckerberg – US
- Lawrence Ellison – US
- Michael Dell – US
- Marc Rich – US
- Ty Warner – US
- Gautam Adani – India
- Micky Jagtiani – India
- Shahid Balwa – India
- Subhash Chandra – India
- Vinod Goenka – India
- PNC Menon – India
- Roman Abramovich – Russia
- Sheldon Adelson – US
- Amancio Ortega – Spain
- Donald Newhouse – US
- François Pinault – France
- Jack Taylor – US
- David Geffen – US
- Ted Turner – US
- Henry Fok (d. 2006) – Hong Kong
- Ralph Lauren – US
- Mohammed Al Amoudi – Saudi Arabia
- Stanley Ho – Hong Kong
- Gabe Newell – US
- Dustin Moskovitz – US
- Richard Li – Hong Kong
- Sheldon Solow – US
- Stef Wertheimer – Israel
- Hiroshi Yamauchi - Japan