List of United States Presidents by college education
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This is a list of United States Presidents' college educations Most Presidents received a college education. Such was the case even for early presidents. Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates. College degrees have set presidents apart from the general population. However U.S. Presidents have held such a degree even when such was extremely rare, and indeed unnecessary for practicing most occupations, including law.
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[edit] List by institutions
[edit] Undergraduate
Some Presidents attended more than one institution. George Washington never attended college, but he did receive his surveyor's certificate from the College of William and Mary.
[edit] Law School
| School | President(s) |
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| Albany Law School |
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| Columbia Law School |
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| Duke University School of Law | |
| Georgetown University Law Center |
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| Harvard Law School | |
| University of Cincinnati College of Law | |
| University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law |
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| University of Virginia School of Law |
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| Yale Law School |
Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer after independent study; he never attended law school.
[edit] Business School
| School | President(s) |
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| Stanford Graduate School of Business |
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| Harvard Business School |
[edit] Medical School
| School | President(s) |
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| University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
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[edit] Doctorate
| School | President(s) |
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| Johns Hopkins University |
[edit] Other Graduate Education
| School | President(s) |
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| University of Oxford Rhodes Scholarship | |
| Union College Nuclear Studies |
[edit] List by Presidents
[edit] Other academic associations
[edit] School founders
| President | School | Year |
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| Thomas Jefferson | University of Virginia | 1819 |
[edit] School president
| President(s) | School | Position | Years |
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| Thomas Jefferson | University of Virginia | 1st "Rector" | 1819-1826 |
| James Madison | University of Virginia | 2nd "Rector" | 1826-1836 |
| James Garfield | Hiram College | President | 1857-1860 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Princeton University | President | 1902-1910 |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Columbia University | President | 1948-1953 |
[edit] Member or chair, school board of trustees
| President(s) | School | Position | Years |
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| George Washington | College of William and Mary | Chancellor | 1788-1799 |
| George Washington | Washington College | ||
| George Washington | Washington and Lee University | ||
| James Madison | University of Virginia | Board of Visitors | 1819-1836 |
| Thomas Jefferson | University of Virginia | Board of Visitors | 1819-1826 |
| James Monroe | University of Virginia | Board of Visitors | 1826-1831 |
| Millard Fillmore | University of Buffalo | Chancellor | 1846-1874 |
| John Tyler | College of William and Mary | Chancellor | 1859-1862 |
| Benjamin Harrison | Purdue University | Board of Trustees | 1895-1901 |
[edit] Faculty member or school officer
| Presidents | School | Position & subject | Years |
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| James Garfield | |||
| William Taft | University of Cincinnati College of Law | Dean | 1896-1900[1] |
| William Taft | Yale Law School | ||
| William Taft | Yale University | Member of the Yale Corporation | |
| Woodrow Wilson | Bryn Mawr College | Professor of Politics and History | |
| Woodrow Wilson | Wesleyan University | Professor of Politics | |
| Woodrow Wilson | Princeton University | Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy | |
| Jimmy Carter | Emory University | ||
| Bill Clinton | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law | Assistant Professor of law | |
| Richard Nixon | Whittier College | Adjunct lecturer, taught undergraduate legal studies class |
