List of U.S. Presidents by college education
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This is a list of U.S. Presidents by college education:
List by institutions
Undergraduate
(Some Presidents attended more than one institution.)
Allegheny College
- William McKinley (dropped out)
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
College of William and Mary
- George Washington (surveyor's license)
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Monroe (dropped out)
- John Tyler
Davidson College
- Woodrow Wilson (transferred to Princeton University)
Dickinson College
Eureka College
Georgia Institute of Technology
- James E. Carter, Jr. (transferred to Georgia Southwestern College)
Georgia Southwestern College
- James E. Carter, Jr. (transferred to United States Naval Academy)
Kenyon College
Kinderhook Academy
Georgetown University
Hampden-Sydney College
- William H. Harrison (dropped out)
Harvard University
Hiram College
- James A. Garfield (transferred to Williams College)
London School of Economics
- John F. Kennedy (transferred to Princeton University)
Miami University
Ohio Central College
Princeton University
- John F. Kennedy (transferred to Harvard University)
- James Madison
- Woodrow Wilson
Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Stanford University
University of Leiden
- John Q. Adams (transferred to Harvard University)
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina
Union College
- Chester A. Arthur
- James E. Carter, Junior (Graduate Studies in Engineering)
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Whittier College
Williams College
Yale University
Legal Education
Albany Law School
- William McKinley (dropped out)
Columbia Law School
- Theodore Roosevelt (dropped out)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (dropped out)
Duke University School of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
- Lyndon B. Johnson (dropped out)
Harvard Law School
University of Cincinnati College of Law
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
- Harry S. Truman (dropped out)
University of Virginia School of Law
- Woodrow Wilson (dropped out)
Yale Law School
Other Graduate Education
Oxford University Rhodes Scholarship
M.B.A.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
- John F. Kennedy (flunked out)
Harvard Business School
M.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- William H. Harrison (dropped out)
Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
List by Presidents
George Washington
- College of William and Mary [surveyor's licence]
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
- College of William and Mary (dropped out)
John Q. Adams
- University of Leiden (transferred to Harvard)
- Harvard University
Andrew Jackson
- None
Martin Van Buren
William H. Harrison
- Hampden-Sydney College - Undergraduate (dropped out)
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - M.D. (dropped out)
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
- None
Millard Fillmore
- None
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
- None
Andrew Johnson
- None
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
- Kenyon College - Undergraduate
- Harvard Law School - Law
James A. Garfield
- Hiram College (transferred to Williams)
- Williams College
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
- None
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
- Harvard University - Undergraduate
- Columbia Law School - Law (dropped out)
William H. Taft
- Yale University - Undergraduate
- University of Cincinnati Law School - Law
Woodrow Wilson
- Davidson College (transferred to Princeton University)
- Princeton University - Undergraduate
- University of Virginia School of Law - Law
- Johns Hopkins University - Ph.D.
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert C. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harvard University - Undergraduate
- Columbia Law School - Law
Harry S. Truman
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - Law (did not receive degree)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- United States Military Academy
- President of Columbia University 1948 to 1953
John F. Kennedy
- London School of Economics - Undergraduate (transferred to Princeton)
- Princeton University - Undergraduate (transferred to Harvard)
- Harvard University - Undergraduate
- Stanford Graduate School of Business - M.B.A. (flunked out)
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Southwest Texas State Teachers College - Undergraduate
- Georgetown University Law Center - Law (dropped out)
Richard M. Nixon
- Whittier College - Undergraduate
- Duke University School of Law - Law
Gerald R. Ford
- University of Michigan - Undergraduate
- Yale Law School - Law
James E. Carter, Jr.
- Georgia Southwestern College (transferred to Georgia Tech)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (transferred to U.S. Naval Academy)
- United States Naval Academy
Ronald W. Reagan
George H. W. Bush
William J. Clinton
- Georgetown University - Undergraduate
- Oxford University - Rhodes Scholarship
- Yale Law School - Law
George W. Bush
- Yale University - Undergraduate
- Harvard Business School - M.B.A.
Other associations with universities
University president
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Columbia University (1948–1953)
- James A. Garfield - Hiram College (1857-1860)
- Woodrow Wilson - Princeton University (1902-1910)
- George Washington (after elected)
University founder
Member or chair, university board of trustees
- George Washington, Washington and Lee University
- George Washington, Chancellor of the College of William and Mary