As you go through this list, which includes CEOs and presidents of 100 of the most recognizable US companies, keep in mind that extremely few people ever make it to this position in a major company. As you know, many people have long, productive, happy careers that culminate in a position just below or even significantly below this, and the lists of where they went to college would be very similar. (Note: Click on the word ‘Lists’ in the menu for important notes for this section.)
Company
Abercrombie and Fitch
Aetna
Airbnb
Allstate
Alphabet
Amazon
American Airlines
American Express
Apple
AT&T
Bank of America
Boeing
BoozAllenHamilton
CapitalOne
CBS
Cigna
Cisco
Citigroup
Comcast
Corning
Costco
Cray Supercomputers
CVS
Dell Computers
Domino’s
Duke Energy
eBay
Exxon Mobil
Fedex
Ford
General Electric
General Motors
Goldman Sachs
H+R Block
Halliburton
Hershey
Hertz
Hilton
Home Depot
Honeywell
IBM
Intel
Intuit
JP Morgan Chase
Johnson and Johnson
Kaiser Permanente
Liberty Mutual
LL Bean
Lockheed Martin
Lowe’s
Marriott
McAfee
McDonald’s
Merck
MetLife
MGM Resorts International
NBC Universal
Netflix
Nike
Northrop Grumman
Nvidia
Office Depot
Pitney Bowes
Pixar
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Procter and Gamble
Raytheon
ReMax
Rite Aid
Rosetta Stone
SAIC
salesforce.com
Sirius XM
Sony
Sotheby’s
Southwest Airlines
Starbucks
State Farm
Sunoco
Target
Texas Instruments
Time Warner
Tyson Foods
Unisys
United AIrlines
UPS
US News and World Report
US Steel
Vanguard Group
Visa
Walmart
Walt Disney
Wayfair
Wells Fargo
Yelp
Zillow
College CEO/President Attended
Lafayette College
Wayne State
Rhode Island School of Design
U Michigan
Villanova
Princeton
Albion College
Manhattan College
Auburn
Loyola Marymount
Brown
Virginia Tech
U Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Stanford
Yale
Texas A+M
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
Harvard
U Pennsylvania
Lehigh
San Diego State
Washington State
U Pittsburgh
U Texas (dropped out)
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
Miami U of Ohio
Princeton
Texas A+M
Harvard
Yale
Georgetown
Washington College
Kettering U
Hamilton College
U Dayton
McNeese State
Shippensburg U
West Virginia State
U Virginia
Michigan State
Michigan State
Rice U
U Buffalo
U Central Florida
Tufts
US Military Academy
Oglethorpe U
Hartwick College
UC Davis (dropped out)
Dickinson College
US Air Force Academy
U Memphis
Luther College
Lehigh U
Duke
Penn State
Syracuse
U Nevada Las Vegas
UC Berkeley
Bowdoin College/Arizona State
Dartmouth
James Madison U
Oregon State
Pacific Lutheran U
Yale
Denison U
Syracuse
SUNY Oswego
Duke
Purdue
Metropolitan State U of Denver
U Virginia
U Illinois
U Arizona
U Southern California
St. Bonaventure U
SUNY Albany
Yale
U Texas–Austin
New Mexico State
Illinois Wesleyan
Trinity U
UC Los Angeles
Union College
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
New York U (dropped out)
Miami U of Ohio
SUNY Binghamton
US Air Force Academy
U Wyoming
Springfield College
Bradley U
Harvard
Iona College
U Arkansas
Indiana University
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
U Illinois
Stanford
Sources: Corporate websites, Bloomberg News, Wikipedia
(last updated 11/14/20)