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The best UK universities to attend if you want to become a millionaire

Study at Oxford if you want to be rich (or not)

The Telegraph has published a list of the UK universities which appear most likely to produce millionaires. Based a survey of 453 UK residents with £1m in disposable assets, it looks at the percentage who graduated from each UK university.

 

The broad implication is that if you want to become very wealthy, you should attend one of the UK universities listed below. Notably, however, some of these universities may be better known for producing hereditary millionaires than people who are millionaires by their own merit.

 

1.Oxford University (7.8% of UK millionaires, including Nat Rothschild)

 

2. University of London (7.5% of UK millionaires, including George Soros)

 

3.Cambridge University (4.3% of UK millionaires, including Lord Sainsbury)

 

4.University of Edinburgh (3.5% of UK millionaires, including Damien Hirst)

 

5.University of Glasgow (3.1% of UK millionaires, including Fred Goodwin)

 

6.University of Leeds (2.7% of UK millionaires, including Subir Raha, former director of Indian Oil Corporation.)

 

7.University of Manchester. (2.4% of UK millionaires, including Joseph Stiglitz)

 

=8.Aston University (2.3% of UK millionaires, including Tony Hayward)

 

=8. Southhampton (2.3% of UK millionaires, including Gordon Pell from RBS)

 

9.Open university (1.9% of UK millionaires, including Jerry Hall).

 

 

 

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AUTHORSarah Butcher Global Editor

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