Ten U.S. Presidents Who Never Graduated From College

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The current President of the United States, Barack Obama, is certainly no slouch in the academic department: he studied political science at Columbia University, majoring in international relations. In 1991 Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

However, some of the greatest presidents in US history did not set foot in an institute of higher learning, let alone graduate from one. Often, education was simply not an option. Through hard work and sheer determination they managed to rise to the top. And though they may not have been college graduates themselves, they still realized the importance of education.