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Top 10 CEO’s Who Never Went to College

September 1st, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

A great posting came across my desk ther other day that listed the top 10 CEO’s around the world that never went to college (uni for those in the UK and Australia). All the CEO’s are well known. Of course there is Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on the list. However, some of the other names were a little surprising.

Here is the complete list of the top 10 CEO’s who never went to college according to OnlineBestColleges.com.

  1. David Oreck
  2. Richard Branson
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. John D Rockerfeller
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Steve Jobs
  7. Walt Disney
  8. John Paul DeJoria
  9. Barry Diller
  10. Bill Gates

Check out the full article at http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/top-10-ceos-who-never-went-to-college/

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  1. Raj D
    September 1st, 2009 at 06:57 | #1

    Hi Simon ,

    that’s a very interesting list and article including Bill Gates, just goes to show you if have a great idea and your hard working, anything is possible.

    Kind Regards

    Raj

    Amul

  2. snoop
    January 4th, 2010 at 04:19 | #2

    Very interesting
    Makes you wonder how much BETTER google could be if they dropped their policy of Uni qualified people only.
    Truly arrogant in my view.

  3. Monopsony
    January 24th, 2010 at 00:36 | #3

    This list is wrong. Bill gates was a PhD student at Harvard, and Steve Jobs went to Reed College. They both dropped out before graduating. I didn’t check the others on the list, but I suspect many of them probably do have some degree of post-high school education, though probably didn’t graduate for whatever reason.

    And, Google do employ people with no university degree. That is just one factor they use in their selection process.

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