re: World's top 100 universities for producing millionaires [SEC represented]

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Looks like absolute numbers. It's an interesting list, but without additional data about their methodology and the ability to sort by other factors, it's mostly just that -- interesting. There are just too many questions that need answering and issues that need addressing before the list becomes truly meaningful. School size, as you point out, is relevant, as is what pre-existing economic indicators existed. For instance, Vandy is the smallest school on the list, but it's an expensive private school and its numbers are almost certainly inflated by the fact that the cost tends to restrict the socio-economic class that even attends it in the first place. If you come from old money, there's really no virtue in being a millionaire after graduating from Vanderbilt/Yale/Stanford/etc. And, as others have pointed out, the local possibilities for making money (say, an area rich in minerals/oil/etc) can have a dramatic effect. That doesn't necessarily mean the people who graduate from that particular university do or don't get a higher quality of education. They may, but that's not an ineluctable proposition.

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