1. University of Oxford — Millionaire Maker Score: 158

The University of Oxford has produced far more millionaires than any other university in the UK and ranks among the world’s greatest universities for moulding bright young minds into business, artistic, and academic brilliance.

Alumni of the University of Oxford — known as Oxonians — include 27 British prime ministers and at least 30 other international leaders.

Writers from Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, CS Lewis, TS Eliot, and JRR Tolkien, all attended the university, alongside actors Kate Beckinsale, Rowan Atkinson, and Hugh Grant.

Oxford has produced a large number of distinguished jurists, judges and lawyers around the world whose financial success further boosts its millionaire producing ability.

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Williams added:

As entrepreneurial skills are rarely part of academic syllabuses, this ranking includes some universities that would not normally be included in higher education rankings. The University of Leeds, for example, is ranked ninth on our list yet cones in at 130th on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Other UK universities that boast academic merit do not feature in the top 20, such as the Universities of St Andrews and Exeter. One familiar pattern between this ranking and others is the University of Oxford in first place. Aspiring students are drawn from around the world by Oxford’s historical reputation and high teaching standards. It therefore boasts a millionaire alumni scattered worldwide making it arguably Britain’s most influential university.