On this President’s Day, do you know where the U.S. presidents went to college? Here are ten cool facts!
- Several U.S presidents did not go to college. Notables are George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln.
- George W. Bush went to Yale and graduated with a B.A. in history. He was a a rugby union player, a cheerleader, president of his fraternity, and a member of the Skull and Bones society.
- Donald Trump graduated from Penn with a degree in economics. He didn’t start there, however. He went to Fordham for the first two years.
- Gerald Ford attended University of Michigan, where he was a star on the national championship football team. He majored in economics and after graduation, got a job as boxing coach and assistant football coach at Yale.
- Barack Obama was another transfer student! He went to Occidental College first, then transferred to Columbia his junior year, where he majored in political science.
- Ronald Reagan majored in economics and sociology at Eureka College. He was a C student involved in campus politics, football, swim, and theater.
- Bill Clinton went to Georgetown to study international affairs. He was involved in university politics immediately, but lost the election for student body president when he was a junior.
- Thirteen U.S. presidents attended Ivy League schools as undergrads. Those schools are Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, and Yale. Harvard, at five, has the highest number of presidential alumni (Adams, Quincy Adams, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, and Kennedy).
- Warren G. Harding went to the now defunct Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio. He and a friend published a newspaper their during their last year.
- Lyndon Johnson majored in education at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, now known as Texas State University. He took a few months off to teach Mexican-American children at a segregated school in Texas.
Each of our U.S. presidents took completely different educational paths on the way to the White House. For some it was traditional, and others it was quite unconventional. What will your path be on the way to your future?
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