As you go through this list, which includes CEOs, presidents and/or chairpersons of 94 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. Only 26% attended MC25 colleges. (Note: Click on the word ‘Lists’ in the menu for important notes for this section.)
Company
Abercrombie and Fitch
Airbnb
Allstate
Alphabet
Amazon
American Airlines
American Express
Apple
AT&T
Bank of America
Berkshire Hathaway
Boeing
BoozAllenHamilton
CapitalOne
CBS News
Cigna
Cisco
Comcast
Corning
Costco
Cray Supercomputers
CVS Health
Dell Computers
Domino’s Pizza
Duke Energy
DuPont
eBay
Etsy
Exxon Mobil
Fannie Mae
Ford
General Motors
Goldman Sachs
H+R Block
Halliburton
Hershey
Hertz
Hilton
Home Depot
Honeywell
Intel
Intuit
JP Morgan Chase
Kaiser Permanente
Kroger Grocery
Liberty Mutual
LL Bean
Lockheed Martin
Lowe’s
Madison Square Garden
McDonald’s
Merck
MetLife
MGM Resorts International
NBC Universal
Netflix
Nike
Northrop Grumman
Nvidia
Office Depot
Pitney Bowes
Pixar
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (USA)
Procter and Gamble
Raytheon
ReMax
Rosetta Stone
SAIC
salesforce.com
Sony Pictures
Sotheby’s
Southwest Airlines
Starbucks
State Farm
Sunoco
Target
Tesla
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
Rhode Island School of Design
U Michigan
Villanova (chairman)
Harvard
Notre Dame
Manhattan College
Auburn
Loyola Marymount
Brown
University of Nebraska
U Iowa
U Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Stanford
U Southern California
Texas A+M
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
U Pennsylvania
Lehigh
Glendale Community College
Washington State
Texas Tech
U Texas (dropped out)
Cornell
North Carolina State
Penn State
Princeton
Brown
Texas A+M
Harvard
Northwestern (chairman)
Georgetown
Kettering U
Hamilton College
The Citadel
McNeese State
U Utah
North Carolina State
U Virginia
William and Mary
Michigan State (chairman)
UC Berkeley (chairman)
U Central Florida
Tufts
Oglethorpe U
did not attend college
Harvard
UC Davis (dropped out)
Gustavus Adolphus College
US Air Force Academy
U Memphis
SUNY New Paltz
Duke
Miami U of Ohio
Syracuse
U Nevada Las Vegas
Yale
Glendale Community College/Yale (co-CEOs)
Texas Christian U
James Madison U
Oregon State
Pacific Lutheran U
U Louisville
Carleton College
Syracuse
Wake Forest
Cornell
Iowa State
Bradley U
U Illinois
William and Mary
U Southern California
U Pennsylvania
Yale
Texas A+M
Miami University of Ohio
Illinois State
Trinity U
U Iowa
U Pennsylvania
U Arkansas–Monticello
Philadelphia U (Thomas Jefferson U)
US Air Force Academy
U Wyoming
Brown U
Bradley U
Penn State (president)
Notre Dame
U Arkansas
Ithaca College
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
U Illinois
Purdue
Sources: Corporate websites, Wikipedia, LinkedIn
(last updated 3/6/26))