Comment on Why are Harvard's alumni so wealthy?

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:39:55 GMT

Oxford occupies a similar power law position in the UK

Does it?

The numbers in this newspaper article from 2013 suggest that (1) Cambridge has a substantial advantage over Oxford in total alumnar wealth (as opposed to number of wealthy alumni/ae) and (2) there are other rivals not all that far behind. I wouldn't want to make a large bet that there isn't a power-law distribution there, but it certainly doesn't seem much like the alleged US situation with Harvard alumni/ae twice as rich as any other university's.

[EDITED to add: It appears that these numbers come from the same organization as the Harvard ones.]

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