9 U.S. Presidents Without A College Degree

Do all U.S. Presidents have a college degree? If not, who are the Presidents without a college degree? At the end of this blog post, I will list 9 U.S. Presidents without a college degree.

I will not go too far, I will share the information I got from Wikipedia. This involves the U.S. Presidents and their level of education. In the end, I will list those without a college degree.

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U.S. Presidents Without a College Degree You Didn’t Know

Presidents	High school or equivalent	Undergraduate school	Graduate school
George Washington	Lower Church School	none	none
John Adams	Braintree Latin School	Harvard University	Harvard University (A.M.)^[16]
Thomas Jefferson	James Maury’s School	The College of William and Mary	none
James Madison	Donald Robertson’s School	Princeton University	none
James Monroe	Campbelltown Academy	The College of William and Mary (did not graduate)	none
John Quincy Adams	Passy Academy	Leiden University (transferred) Harvard University	Harvard University (A.M.)^[17]
Andrew Jackson	William Humphries’ Academy James White Stephenson’s Academy	none	none
Martin Van Buren	Kinderhook Academy Washington Seminary	none	none
William Henry Harrison	Millfield Academy	Hampden–Sydney College (withdrew)	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (withdrew)
John Tyler	College of William and Mary Preparatory School	The College of William and Mary	none
James K. Polk	Zion Presbyterian Church Academy Bradley Academy	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	none
Zachary Taylor	Kean O’Hara’s Academy^[18]	none	none
Millard Fillmore	New Hope Academy	none	none
Franklin Pierce	Phillips Exeter Academy	Bowdoin College	Northampton Law School (withdrew)
James Buchanan	Old Stone Academy	Dickinson College	none
Abraham Lincoln	Briefly attended schools in Hardin County, Kentucky, and Spencer County, Indiana	none	none
Andrew Johnson	Tutored while an apprentice tailor and by his wife	none	none
Ulysses S. Grant	Maysville Academy	United States Military Academy	none
Rutherford B. Hayes	Norwalk Seminary The Webb School	Kenyon College	Harvard Law School
James Garfield	Geauga Seminary	Hiram College (transferred) Williams College	none
Chester A. Arthur	Schenectady Lyceum and Academy	Union College	State and National Law School (did not graduate)
Grover Cleveland	Clinton Academy	none	none
Benjamin Harrison	Farmers’ College	Miami University	none
William McKinley	Poland Academy	Allegheny College (withdrew) Mount Union College (withdrew)	Albany Law School (withdrew)
Theodore Roosevelt	Schooled at home by parents and private tutors	Harvard University	Columbia Law School (withdrew) (awarded J.D. in 2008, class of 1882)
William Howard Taft	Woodward High School	Yale University	University of Cincinnati College of Law
Woodrow Wilson	Schooled at home by parents and private tutors	Davidson College (transferred) Princeton University	University of Virginia School of Law (withdrew) Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D.)
Warren G. Harding	Caledonia High School	Ohio Central College	none
Calvin Coolidge	Black River Academy St. Johnsbury Academy	Amherst College	none
Herbert Hoover	Friends Pacific Academy (now George Fox University)	Capital Business College (attended) Stanford University	none
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Groton School	Harvard University	Columbia Law School (withdrew) (awarded J.D. in 2008, class of 1907)
Harry S. Truman	Independence High School	Spalding’s Commercial College (withdrew)	Kansas City Law School (now University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law) (withdrew)
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Abilene High School	United States Military Academy (West Point)	United States Army Command and General Staff College United States Army Industrial College United States Army War College
John F. Kennedy	Dexter School The Choate School	London School of Economics (General Course Program) Princeton University (transferred) Harvard University	Stanford Graduate School of Business (auditor)
Lyndon B. Johnson	Johnson City High School	Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University)	Georgetown University Law Center (withdrew)
Richard Nixon	Whittier High School	Whittier College	Duke University School of Law
Gerald Ford	Grand Rapids South High School	University of Michigan	University of Michigan Law School (transferred) Yale Law School
Jimmy Carter	Plains High School	Georgia Southwestern College (transferred) Georgia Institute of Technology (transferred) United States Naval Academy	Union College (Postgraduate Nuclear Physics Course Program)
Ronald Reagan	Dixon High School	Eureka College	none
George H. W. Bush	Phillips Academy	Yale University	none
Bill Clinton	Hot Springs High School	Georgetown University University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholar; withdrew)	Yale Law School (J.D.)
George W. Bush	Phillips Academy	Yale University	Harvard Business School
Barack Obama	Punahou School	Occidental College (transferred) Columbia University	Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Donald Trump	New York Military Academy	Fordham University (transferred) Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	none
Joe Biden	Archmere Academy	University of Delaware	Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.)