5. University College London (UCL) — Millionaire Maker Score: 69

London universities make up three of the top five and UCL alone boasts a wide variety of notable alumni that have gone on to count themselves among the super rich.

Businesspeople including Edwin Waterhouse, founding partner of the professional services firm PwC, Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind — now owned by Google, and Lord Digby Jones, the former director general of the Confederation of British Industry all went to the university.

Other names that have sprung up from the university to make their mark on the world are Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, columnist AA Gill, and film director Christopher Nolan.

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