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
Boston College
Rhode Island School of Design
U Michigan
U Michigan/U Maryland
Princeton
Albion College
Manhattan College
Auburn
U Central Oklahoma
Brown
Virginia Tech
U Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Stanford
Pace U
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
Virginia Tech
Texas A+M
Harvard
Yale
U Michigan
Washington College
Kettering U
Harvard/Middlebury
U Dayton
McNeese State
Shippensburg U
SUNY Albany
U Virginia
Michigan State
Michigan State
Northwestern
U Buffalo
U Central Florida
Tufts
US Military Academy
Golden Gate U
Hartwick College
U Pennsylvania
Dickinson College
U Alabama
U Memphis
Luther College
Princeton
Duke
Penn State
Syracuse
Trinity College (CT)
Colgate U
Bowdoin College
Penn State
James Madison U
Oregon State
Pacific Lutheran U
Yale
Denison U
Syracuse
SUNY Oswego
Duke
Rutgers
Metropolitan State U of Denver
U Virginia
U Illinois
U Arizona
U Southern California
St. Bonaventure U
SUNY Albany
Princeton
U Texas–Austin/Villanova
New Mexico State
Illinois Wesleyan
Trinity U
UCLA
Union College
Loyola Marymount
New York U (dropped out)
Bemidji State U
SUNY Binghamton
U Southern California
Delta State
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 October 2019)