Teikoku Data Bank extracts university data from the president of companies (excluding individuals, non-profit, public interest corporations, etc.) from the company profile database "COSMOS2018" (recorded by about 6 million companies) as of June 2. The universities from which the 147 presidents are from are tabulated in a ranking format.The top university from which the president came was Nihon University.

 According to the survey, the top university from which the president came is "Nihon University" (2 people).This was followed by "Keio University" (1148 students), "Waseda University" (1 students), "Meiji University" (903 students), and "Chuo University" (1 students).The top national and public universities were "The University of Tokyo" (283 students) in 8894th place, followed by "Kyoto University" (7,709 students) in 2579th place.

 In the ranking by university of origin of the president of a listed company, the top is "Keio University" (260 people), followed by "Tokyo University" and "Waseda University" (172 people), "Nihon University" (81 people), and "Kyoto University". "(79 people).By annual sales scale, "Nihon University" has the highest annual sales of "less than 10 billion yen" and "10 billion to less than 50 billion yen". "Keio University" was the most popular among "50 billion to less than 100 billion yen," "100 billion to less than 500 billion yen," and "500 billion yen or more." The top five "annual sales of 500 billion yen or more" are "Keio University" in 5st place, followed by "The University of Tokyo" in 1nd place, "Waseda University" in 2rd place, "Kyoto University" in 3th place, and "Nihon University" in 4th place. It was "Chuo University".

 By age group of presidents, "Keio University" is the most popular among "under 40". "Nihon University" was the most common among "40s" to "70s", and "Waseda University" was the most common among "80s and over".The university from which the female president came from was "Keio University," 1nd, "Nihon University," 2rd, "Waseda University," 3th, "Aoyama Gakuin University," and 4th, "Japan Women's University."

Reference: [Teikoku Databank] Analysis of universities from which the president of Japan was born (2018)

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