The U.S. presidents have attended a wide range of colleges and universities and some did not attend college at all. This page includes traditional four year colleges, but also law schools, business schools and any other post-high school educational institutions whether or not the president graduated. The following presidents did not attend college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Grover Cleveland.
College/University | President |
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Hampden-Sydney College | William Henry Harrison |
University of Pennsylvania (Medical School) | William Henry Harrison |
North Carolina | James K. Polk |
Bowdoin College | Franklin Pierce |
Dickinson College | James Buchanan |
Kenyon College | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Hiram College | James Garfield |
Williams College | James Garfield |
Miami University of Ohio | Benjamin Harrison |
Allegheny College | William McKinley |
Albany Law School | William McKinley |
Cincinnati | William Howard Taft |
Johns Hopkins | Woodrow Wilson |
Whittier College | Richard Nixon |
Duke | Richard Nixon |
Michigan | Gerald Ford |
Georgetown | Bill Clinton |
Oxford | Bill Clinton |
Eureka College | Ronald Reagan |
Kansas City School of Law | Harry Truman |
Southwest Texas State (now Texas State University-San Marcos) | Lyndon Johnson |
Georgia Southwestern College | Jimmy Carter |
Georgia Institute of Technology | Jimmy Carter |
United States Naval Academy | Jimmy Carter |
Amherst College | Calvin Coolidge |
Stanford | Herbert Hoover |
Ohio Central College | Warren Harding |
Occidental College | Barack Obama |
Fordham University | Donald Trump |
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania | Donald Trump |
Delaware | Joe Biden |
Syracuse | Joe Biden |