Students who wonder if it really matters where they attend college have another reason to be doubtful.
A survey by Fortune magazine of the 40 wealthiest Americans under the age of 40 has found that while quite a few went to prestigious institutions, a surprising number attended less-notable colleges
and universities, dropped out, or never even set foot on a campus.
Sure, Jeff Bezos, a Princeton University graduate and chairman of Amazon.com, weighed in at the No. 5 slot, with about $4-billion. But the top two decided college wasn’t for them. Michael Dell, who dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin, is now worth about $17-billion as chairman of Dell Computer, and Ted Waitt, who left the University of Iowa, went on to become chairman of Gateway Computers and is worth roughly $8.5-billion.
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