Where the Fortune 50 CEOs Went to College

By Joseph R. Santo Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006

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Surprisingly, Ivy League graduates do not dominate the top fifty Fortune 500 Companies. When measuring CEO undergraduate education, the University of Texas system has just as much representation as Harvard: a total of 3 CEOs. What does this mean for students? An elite career doesn�t always stem from an elite education.

COMPANY	CEO	COLLEGE
Exxon Mobil	Rex Tillerson	University of Texas at Austin
Wal-Mart Stores	H. Lee Scott	Pittsburg State University in Kansas
General Motors	Rick Wagoner	Duke University
Chevron	David O'Reilly	University College, Dublin
Ford Motor	William Ford, Jr.	Princeton University
ConocoPhillips	James Mulva	University of Texas
General Electric	Jeff Immelt	Dartmouth College
Citigroup	Charles Prince	University of Southern California
American Intl. Group (AIG)	Martin J. Sullivan	N/A
Intl. Business Machines	Samuel J. Palmisano	Johns Hopkins University
Hewlett-Packard	Mark V. Hurd	Baylor University
Bank of America Corp.	Ken Lewis	Georgia State University
Berkshire Hathaway	Warren Buffett	University of Nebraska
Home Depot	Robert Nardelli	Western Illinois University
Valero Energy	Bill Klesse	University of Dayton
McKesson	John Hammergren	University of Minnesota
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	Jamie Dimon	Tufts University
Verizon Communications	Ivan Seidenberg	City University of New York
Cardinal Health	Robert D. Walter	Ohio University
Altria Group	Louis Camilleri	University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Kroger	David Dillon	University of Kansas
State Farm Insurance Cos.	Edward B. Rust, Jr.	Illinois Wesleyan University
Marathon Oil	Clarence Cazalot, Jr.	Louisiana State University
Procter & Gamble	Alan G. Lafley	Hamilton College
Dell	Kevin Rollins	Brigham Young University
Boeing	W. James McNerney, Jr.	Yale University
AmerisourceBergen	R. David Yost	U.S. Air Force Academy
Costco Wholesale	James Sinegal	San Diego State University
Target	Robert Ulrich	University of Minnesota
Morgan Stanley	John J. Mack	Duke University
Pfizer	Henry A. McKinnell	University of British Columbia
Johnson & Johnson	William Weldon	Quinnipiac College
Sears Holdings	Alan J. Lacy	Georgia Institute of Technology
Merrill Lynch	Stan O'Neal	Kettering University
MetLife	Rob Henrikson	University of Pennsylvania
Dow Chemical	Andrew N. Liveris	University of Queensland
UnitedHealth Group	William W. McGuire	University of Texas at Austin
Wellpoint	Larry C. Glasscock	Cleveland State University
AT&T	Edward Whitacre, Jr.	Texas Tech University
Time Warner	Richard D. Parsons	University of Hawaii
Goldman Sachs Group	Lloyd Blankfein	Harvard University
Lowe's	Robert Niblock	University of North Carolina
United Technologies	George David	Harvard University
United Parcel Service	Michael L. Eskew	Purdue University
Walgreen	David Bernauer	North Dakota State University
Wells Fargo	Richard Kovacevich	Stanford University
Albertson's	Larry Johnston	Stetson University
Microsoft	Steve Ballmer	Harvard University
Intel	Paul Otellini	University of San Francisco
Safeway	Steven Burd	Carroll College