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| Name |
Company |
Degree |
School |
| Mike Duke |
Wal-Mart Stores |
B.S., Industrial Engineering |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Rex W. Tillerson |
Exxon Mobil |
B.S., Civil Engineering |
University of Texas--Austin |
| John S. Watson |
Chevron |
M.B.A. |
University of Chicago |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt |
General Electric |
A.B., Applied Mathematics |
Dartmouth College |
| Brian T. Moynihan |
Bank of America |
B.A., History |
Brown University |
| James J. Mulva |
ConocoPhillips |
M.B.A. |
University of Texas--Austin |
| Randall L. Stephenson |
AT&T |
M.B.A. |
University of Oklahoma |
| Alan R. Mulally |
Ford Motor |
S.M., Management |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| James Dimon |
J.P. Morgan Chase |
M.B.A. |
Harvard University |
| Leo Apotheker |
Hewlett-Packard |
B.A., Economics |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| MBA |
4 |
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| BS,BA |
5 |
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| Master |
1 |
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Havard, Columbia and Penn account for 20% of CEOs.
34.8% MBA, 40% no graduate degree, 3.8% non-degree
Of the 500 CEOs in question, 174 have M.B.A.s and 59 have law degrees. Nearly 200 of the CEOs have no graduate-level degree. Nineteen of the 500 CEOs attained no college degree, and many were college dropouts turned visionaries in the technology sector, like Oracle Corp.'s top executive and now billionaire Lawrence J. Ellison. A few retail executives also worked their way to the corner office by way of humble beginnings on the sales floor, like James A. Skinner of McDonald's, who started as a restaurant manager, and Brian J. Dunn of Best Buy Co., who was once a store associate.
Below is a table highlighting the 16 schools that awarded at least nine degrees to Fortune 500 CEOs. The rank of their undergraduate program, graduate business school, and law school are also included. The table is sorted by total number of degrees awarded per institution:
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