Have you ever wondered what college has produced the most Presidents of the United States? Or how many went to graduate school? What they studied? What Presidents have never gone to college? Take a look at just some of the education past Presidents have received below!
Take a look at the list of US Presidents and where each one went to college.
What College Has Produced the Most Presidents?
Harvard University has produced the most Presidents when it comes to their undergraduate school with 8! That includes John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush.
Where Did Presidents Go to Graduate School?
Most of the US presidents did receive a college education. Currently, 20 presidents have attended a form of graduate school or higher, but only 11 graduated with graduate degrees.
| President | College | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| John Adams | Harvard University | Master of Arts |
| Thomas Jefferson | College of William & Mary | *(See note below) |
| James Madison | College of New Jersey | Bachelor of Arts |
| John Quincy Adams | Harvard University | Master of Arts |
| John Tyler | College of William & Mary | Studied law |
| James K. Polk | University of North Carolina | Artium Baccalaureus (AB) |
| Franklin Pierce | Bowdoin College (graduated from Bowdoin College and then attended Northamptom Law School) | After graduation he studied law |
| James Buchanan | Dickinson College | Studied law |
| Ulysses S. Grant | United States Military Academy | Bachelor of Science |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Harvard Law School | Bachelor of Laws |
| James Garfield | Williams College | Bachelor of Arts |
| Chester Arthur | Union College | Bachelor of Arts |
| Benjamin Harrison | Miami University in Ohio | attended Miami University in Ohio and read law in Cincinnati |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Harvard College | Artium Baccalaureus (AB) |
| William Howard Taft | University of Cincinnati College of Law | Bachelor of Laws |
| Woodrow Wilson | John Hopkins University | Ph.D. in History and Government |
| Warren G. Harding | Ohio Central College | Bachelor of Arts |
| Calvin Coolidge | Amherst College | Artium Baccalaureus (AB) |
| Herbert Hoover | Stanford University | Bachelor of Science |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Harvard University | Artium Baccalaureus (AB) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | United States Military Academy | Bachelor of Science |
| John F. Kennedy | Harvard University | Artium Baccalaureus (AB) |
| Lyndon. B. Johnson | Southwest Texas State Teachers College | Bachelor of Science in History |
| Richard Nixon | Duke University School of Law | Bachelor of Laws |
| Gerald Ford | Yale Law School | Bachelor of Laws |
| Jimmy Carter | United States Naval Academy | Bachelor of Science |
| Ronald Reagan | Eureka College | Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology |
| George H.W. Bush | Yale University | Bachelor of Arts in Economics |
| Bill Clinton | Yale Law School | Juris Doctor |
| George W. Bush | Harvard Business School | Master of Business Administration |
| Barack Obama | Harvard Law School | Juris Doctor |
| Donald Trump | University of Pennsylvania | Bachelor of Science in Economics |
| Joe Biden | Syracuse Law School | Juris Doctor |
*Jefferson’s seven years of study at the College of William & Mary culminated in the practice of law but without any type of “degree” as might be granted today.
What Presidents Never Went to College or Didn’t Graduate?
There are US Presidents who never went to college or attended and dropped out. They include:
- George Washington – He did leave money though to educational institutions.
- James Monroe – Left the College of William and Mary to fight in the Revolutionary War
- Andrew Jackson – Never attended college
- Martin Van Buren – Never attended college
- William Henry Harrison – Withdrew from both Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Zachary Taylor – Never attended college
- Millard Fillmore -Never attended college
- Abraham Lincoln – Only attended some early school, never college
- Andrew Johnson – Never had formal schooling; received some tutoring
- Grover Cleveland – Never attended college
- William McKinley – Withdrew from Allegheny College, Mount Union College, and Albany Law School
- Harry S. Truman – Withdrew from Spalding’s Commercial College and Kansas City Law School
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