People often wonder about the lives of billionaires and the richest people in the world and are inspired by them to achieve similar financial success.
Attending prestigious educational institutes may have allowed them to reach the top, but that is not always the case. Some of them have also attended public sector institutes.
Elon Musk $197.4 billion
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, attended public schools in the South African city of Pretoria, where he was born. He is one of the richest people in the world.
The billionaire attended public schools; Waterkloof House Preparatory School and Bryanston High School.
For secondary education, he attended another public sector institution, Pretoria Boys High School.
The Mars-obsessed also briefly went to the University of Pretoria to study computer science while awaiting a decision on their US visa application.
The 52-year-old later attended Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, for the same studies, but transferred to the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania. He graduated in physics and economics.
The Neuralink founder also briefly gained admission to Stanford University in the PhD program, but opted out two days later.
Jeff Bezos $199.6 billion
The founder of Amazon and the aerospace company Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, acquired his primary education at River Oaks Elementary School in Houston and attended a public institution at Miami Palmetto High School, before Princeton University.
The 60-year-old was also part of the University of Florida's Science Student Training Program, before Princeton.
At Princeton he majored in physics and then moved on to electrical engineering and computer science.
The world's richest person founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and later served as the company's president and CEO.
Mark Zuckerberg $151 billion
The fourth richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of Harvard University and focused on developing Facebook, which he co-founded in 2004.
His primary education began at Ardsley Public High School in New York and then he went to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter.
