Want to be a billionaire? Try Cambridge.

Cambridge University leads Europe and Asia in the number of billionaires among the university's alumni, a new report claims. 

Like stats? Dig into these: the combined wealth of Cambridge's billionaire alumni comes to $48 billion. Of note, Lord David Sainsbury [King's College], $1.1 billion and media magnate David Thomson [Selwyn] (otherwise known as the richest man in Canada), $20 billion. 

Though it's not all champagne and caviar for Cambridge; Harvard Universality with 52 billionaires, reaches a combined wealth of $205 billion, more than four times that of Cambridge. Having had the co-founder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin there, ($2.2 billion) helps. What about Mark Zuckerberg? Didn't graduate (sorry Harvard).

However, the same report from Wealth-X, shows Cambridge as 19th in the world for the number of ultra high net worth alumni, with 361 equating to $93 billion. Oxford comes in has only $51 billion with 401 ultra high net worth alumni. Yes, "only". 

We are now putting together a plan of how Footprints can include those 361 ultra high net worth individuals from Cambridge University on our free Oxford walking tour , and those 401 ultra high net worth individuals from Oxford University on our Cambridge walking tour! 

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Oxford Win THE Race

Oxford University won the 2013 University Boat Race after a battle with Cambridge University which lasted over  four miles, on a cold part of the River Thames. If  you’re familiar with the debate and controversy of last year's race, there was no repetition this year. Oxford were the first to every timing marker, in their boat, named Acer after the university's three-time Boat Race cox Acer Nethercott, who died in January from brain cancer , aged  35. 

“We answered everything they threw at us all the way round the bend,” said Cambridge president George Nash. “It was only in the last bit they managed to crack the race open and seal the deal.”

“It was harder than I thought it was going to be,” said Oxford president Alex Davidson. “I wasn’t happy until I could see Oskar’s hands in the air and knew we had done it. It’s such an incredible feeling. I’m so proud of the guys. It’s all been worth it.”

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