How many US Presidents never attended college?

Answer

There were nine. They are: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland and Harry S Truman.

More than that from any single college so far. President's undergraduate colleges,

School	President(s)
Allegheny College	William McKinley (withdrew)
Amherst College	Calvin Coolidge
Bowdoin College	Franklin Pierce
The College of William & Mary	George Washington (surveyor's certificate) Thomas Jefferson James Monroe John Tyler
Columbia University	Barack Obama
Davidson College	Woodrow Wilson (transferred to Princeton University)
Dickinson College	James Buchanan
Eureka College	Ronald Reagan
Georgetown University	Bill Clinton
Georgia Institute of Technology	Jimmy Carter (transferred to United States Naval Academy)
Georgia Southwestern State University	Jimmy Carter (transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology)
Hampden-Sydney College	William Henry Harrison (withdrew)
Harvard University	John Adams John Quincy Adams Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy
Hiram College	James A. Garfield (transferred to Williams College)
Kenyon College	Rutherford B. Hayes
London School of Economics	John F. Kennedy (transferred to Princeton University)
Miami University	Benjamin Harrison
Occidental College	Barack Obama (transferred to Columbia University)
Ohio Central College	Warren G. Harding
Princeton University	John F. Kennedy (transferred to Harvard University) James Madison Woodrow Wilson
Texas State University-San Marcos	Lyndon B. Johnson
Stanford University	Herbert Hoover
Leiden University	John Quincy Adams (transferred to Harvard University)
University of Michigan	Gerald Ford
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	James K. Polk
Union College	Chester A. Arthur
United States Military Academy	Ulysses S. Grant Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States Naval Academy	Jimmy Carter
Whittier College	Richard Nixon
Williams College	James A. Garfield
Yale University	William Howard Taft George H. W. Bush George W. Bush

 

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• 今后不上College的总统可能不会出现了 -flagsix- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 16:08:53

• 还要想到，美国的综合大学也只是19世纪后期的事。所谓Land grant才建立了一批公立大学。 -老忽叔叔- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 16:12:01

• 难怪好像几乎都是Private Colleges 毕业的 -flagsix- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 16:14:47

• 而且，美国STEM教育顶峰期是二战以后，越战时期。在这之前，欧洲STEM教育远远领先与美国。 -老忽叔叔- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 16:31:50

• 9个总统没读过大学，比任何一个大学当总统的都多。所以，要想当总统，不要上任何大学！ -老忽叔叔- ♂ (11 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 16:29:13

• nonsense, 干嘛不问中国几个皇帝上过大学？学过英语？ -laborlaw- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 16:59:28

• Harvard is founded in 1636， -flagsix- ♂ (142 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 17:14:53

• 传统上，大多数皇帝都是大学校长 -用户名被占用了- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2012 postreply 17:17:46