By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent.According to a global census of dollar billionaires, almost two-thirds have a university degree. That means that even for countries with a high level of graduates, billionaires are disproportionately likely to have gone to university.In the UK, more than four out of five billionaires were in higher education-The educational insights are from an annual profile of the uber-rich, the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census, produced by the Swiss banking group and a Singapore-based financial intelligence firm.It examines the wealth and background of more than 2,300 billionaires- and the findings undermine the image of the wealthy as being self-taught self-starters trained on the market stall.As well as being much more likely to be graduates, a quarter has postgraduate degrees and more than one in 10 has a doctorate.This map of wealth also shows that these dollar billionaires - worth at least 620m and typically more than three times this amount - are likely to have attended some of the traditionally most prestigious universities.The top 20 for universities producing billionaires is dominated by blue-chip, elite US institutions, which take 16 of the places.
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