Can you name the U.S. presidents' alma maters?

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Source: The White House
Note: Only colleges and universities attended full-time are included.

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John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

James Polk

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford Hayes

James Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dwight Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

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Presidential Education Quiz

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Created by: Detektor -
Contributed: February 8th, 2010
Published: February 17th, 2010
Category: History
Plays: 95,580

Tags: College Quizzes, University Quizzes, mater, Alma Maters, education, presidental, Editor Pick, us history pack, Presidents

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	smace:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 16:29 GMT	12 points
	Texas State University-San Marcos used to be Southwest Texas State, an answer that should have counted.

	miyomiyo1:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 16:50 GMT	12 points
	After looking at the answers for Bush, you have to wonder: is these universities teaching?

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	huvelle:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 16:58 GMT	-3 points
	GO TEXAS STATE WOOOO

	wallyballz:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 17:16 GMT	8 points
	I think MIYO was perhaps making a small joke with intentionally bad grammar? I also shake my head at W's resume, although we must consider how important his father was at the time.

	Anne13:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	3 points
	Thank you. Nice quiz! Maybe credit for the few presidents who did not have an alma mater? Abraham Lincoln, for example, did not officially attend college. Could answer as 'none', or 'self-educated'.

Rutherford Hayes

Chester A. Arthur

	bsteger:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	12 points
	Jimmy Carter went to Georgia Tech as well.

	JayHankEdLyonJr:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 17:55 GMT	7 points
	I really don't want to sound like a whiner, but I wish you'd used the search bar before making this quiz, seeing as I already made it. I'm sure you didn't "steal my idea" considering the caliber of your quizzes, but it's still bothersome to come up with the idea first and not get any credit. I mean, just the internet, but still.

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	Tobo:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:07 GMT	3 points
	Yay for featuring Bowdoin's Hubbard Hall as the caption picture for this quiz!

	Beldasnoop:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:18 GMT	12 points
	Is this only the schools they actually got degrees from? I know that Woodrow Wilson, for instance, attended law school at the University of Virginia (my alma mater) for a year.

	Commodore:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:18 GMT	4 points
	Hooray for Union College. Proud to have a statue of ol' Chet Arthur on our campus!

	luke78:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:23 GMT	8 points
	i third that carter went to georgia tech

	TheFoxManCometh:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:30 GMT	3 points
	Woodrow Wilson went to Davidson College for 1 year

	midlifecrisis:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:33 GMT	1 point
	At first I thought you had to name each college by president so I wasn't going to bother. I would have thought for sure at least one president would have gone to Providence or Dartmouth.

	DrumBum88:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 18:52 GMT	3 points
	Are you sure that Fillmore got a college education from New Hope? Isn't that a private elementary and high school?

	McClane:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 19:08 GMT	4 points
	Are you sure President John Blutarsky didn't attend Faber College?

	acpierce:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 19:25 GMT	-1 points
	Tobo, I agree. Go U Bears! (even if our 14th president was less than illustrious.) McClane - Did President Blutarsky actually graduate from Faber? As I recall, Bluto had a 0.0 GPA...

	TJL:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 19:26 GMT	8 points
	@McClane: unfortunately, John Blutarsky was only a Senator

	pbrown:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 20:11 GMT	1 point
	Maybe for Benjamin Harrison specify that it was Miami (Ohio).

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	King_of_Macomb:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 21:25 GMT	4 points
	The quiz indicates that Millard Fillmore is a graduate of the New Hope Academy, and that's what his bio says in Wikipedia. However, the Wikipedia entry for "New Hope Academy" indicates that it was was founded in 1990. Perhaps some course President Fillmore was transferring in wfrom another university was held up by some nitpicky registrar so that he did't graduate until he was ... oh, let's see, oh yeah - dead.

	padawanofpie:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 21:28 GMT	3 points
	columbia should be accepted for "columbia university" since harvard is accepted for "harvard university"

	GavinSinger:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 22:00 GMT	2 points
	great quiz, none from george washington university?

	Hal_10000:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 22:06 GMT	-1 points
	I agree with Anne13. Wonder if you should add "no college" for some President who were self-taught.