47% of Fortune 100 CEOs Graduated From These Colleges Is Your Alma Mater on the List

47% of Fortune 100 CEOs Graduated From These Colleges Is Your Alma Mater on the List While you mightve grown up thinking you needed to attend an Ivy League school to become a CEO, research proves thats not true. According toa study recently published in Forbes, only 11% of Fortune 100 CEOs in 2018 went to Ivy Leagues. In fact, a whopping 47% went to state schools across the country.In the Fortune Top 10, only one CEO attended an Ivy Jeff Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1988. Instead, 80% of them attended public institutions. Heres the list1. University of Arkansas Doug McMillion, CEO of Walmart2. Texas AM University Darren Woods, CEO of Exxon Mobil3. University of Nebraska- Lincoln Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway4. Auburn University Tim Cook, CEO of Apple5. Illinois State University David Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group6. University of Minnesota John Hammergreen, CEO of McKesson7. University of Pittsburg Larry Merlo, CEO of CVS Health8. Princeton Universi ty Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon9. University of Central Oklahoma Randall Stephenson, CEO of ATT10. Kettering University Mary Barra, CEO of General MotorsOverall, the two universities that were most commonly attended by CEOs in the Fortune 100 were the University of Michigan and Texas AM.So, for high school seniors applying to college this year, remember that getting accepted to that Ivy League isnt everything And P.S. you might want to add Texas AM to your list.