10 people who haven't even graduated from undergraduate courses are mainly presidents in the early days of the founding of the United States. At that time, universities were not popular, including the famous presidents George Washington (housing) and Lincoln (housing) (Lincoln had almost no formal education). The last president without a college degree was Truman. After Roosevelt died, according to the US Constitution, he was promoted from vice president to president.
Now let's talk about the president with a degree. These presidents have bachelor's degrees from most universities, especially Harvard University. Five presidents graduated from Harvard, in chronological order:
John Adames
John Quincy Adams
Roosevelt
Franklin roosevelt
John Kennedy
Interestingly, the last president with a bachelor's degree from Harvard was Kennedy, and that was in the early 1960s. In other words, none of the recent 10 presidents graduated from Harvard.
Apart from Harvard, it is not famous Ivy League schools such as Yale and Princeton that produce the most presidents, but an unknown school, William College & Mary. Four presidents studied here:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
John Tyler
However, President Washington did not get his degree here, but a surveyor's certificate.
William & Mary's school has trained so many presidents. First, it was founded early. Founded in 1693, it is the second oldest university in the United States, second only to Harvard University. In that era when universities were scarce, there was a great chance of producing a president. Of course, William and Mary College is also an excellent college of arts and sciences.
Yale and Princeton each have three presidents. Among them, Princeton produced the famous President Kennedy. Both Bush Sr. and George W. Bush attended Yale.
West Point Military Academy also produced two presidents, Grant and Eisenhower.
There are more than 20 other schools, and each school has exported a principal. (Note: Some principals have transferred)
The London School of Economics is worth mentioning. It is actually an English school. When President Kennedy was in college, he admired Harold Lasky, a political scientist, and went to London to study. But after studying in LSE for a month, I returned to the United States due to illness and transferred to Princeton. I only studied at Princeton for six weeks, and then I was hospitalized. The following year, Kennedy entered Harvard University and finally graduated smoothly.
Generally speaking, the distribution of undergraduate universities of American presidents is still very scattered. It did not say which university monopolized presidential education. Harvard, the most prolific university, has only had five presidents, and there has been no president for nearly 50 years. Including this election, neither Obama nor Romney graduated from Harvard. It also shows that there are too many good universities in America.
school of law
In addition to undergraduate degrees, 65,438+02 presidents attended law school, but 6 of them dropped out of school without graduation. Among those who have real law degrees, two graduated from Harvard Law School, including the current President barack obama. There are two graduates from Yale Law School, namely President Ford and Clinton.
Business school/business school
Interestingly, both American presidents went to business schools. One is George W. Bush, who graduated from Harvard Business School with a master's degree in business administration. There is also the legendary Kennedy, who studied in stanford graduate school of business, but didn't stop studying until graduation.