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Colleges and Universities Attended by U.S. Presidents

Hey, they had to start somewhere. Check out the alma maters of U.S. presidents.

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• Barack Obama: Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Benjamin Harrison: Miami University — Oxford (Oxford, OH)
• Bill Clinton: Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• Calvin Coolidge: Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Chester A. Arthur: Union College (Schenectady, NY)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Franklin Pierce: Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• George H.W. Bush: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• George W. Bush: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• Gerald Ford: University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
• Herbert Hoover: Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• James A. Garfield: Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• James Buchanan: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
• James Madison: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• James Monroe: College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
• James Polk: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• Jimmy Carter: United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD)
• John F. Kennedy: Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Lyndon Johnson: Texas State University — San Marcos (San Marcos, TX)
• Richard Nixon: Whittier College (Whittier, CA)
• Ronald Reagan: Eureka College (Eureka, IL)
• Rutherford B. Hayes: Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
• Theodore Roosevelt: Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Ulysses S. Grant: United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)
• William McKinley: Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
• William Taft: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• Woodrow Wilson: Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
• Woodrow Wilson: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

Source: Source for alumni lists: The College Finder research. The institution listed may be the undergraduate or graduate school attended. Some individuals attended, but did not graduate from, the institution listed. Although researched, these lists are best seen as an indication of the range of colleges attended by notable persons.