George Washington: No Degree
John Adams: Grad -- Harvard College (now Harvard University) in 1755.
Thomas Jefferson: Grad -- the College of William & Mary (VA) in 1762.
James Madison: Grad -- the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) in 1771.
James Monroe: No Degree
John Quincy Adams: Grad -- Harvard College in 1788.
Andrew Jackson: No Degree
Martin Van Buren: No Degree
William Henry Harrison: No Degree
John Tyler: Grad -- College of William & Mary (VA) in 1807.
James K. Polk: Grad -- University of North Carolina in 1818.
Zachary Taylor: No Degree
Millard Fillmore: No Degree
Franklin Pierce: Grad -- Bowdoin College in 1824.
James Buchanan: Grad -- Dickinson College in 1809.
Abraham Lincoln: No Degree
Andrew Johnson: No Degree
Ulysses S. Grant: Grad -- United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1843.
Rutherford B. Hayes: Grad -- Harvard Law School in 1845.
James A. Garfield: Grad -- Williams College in 1856.
Chester A. Arthur: Grad -- Union College in 1848.
Grover Cleveland: No Degree
Benjamin Harrison: Grad -- Miami University (Ohio) in 1852.
(Grover Cleveland's Second Term)
William McKinley: Graduated from Poland Seminary, but never took a degree.
Theodore Roosevelt: Grad -- Harvard College in 1880.
William Howard Taft: Grad -- Yale in 1878 & Cincinnati Law School in 1880.
Woodrow Wilson: Grad -- Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. History & Poly Sci, 1886.
Warren G. Harding: Grad -- Ohio Central College in 1882.
Calvin Coolidge: Grad -- Amherst College in 1897.
Herbert Hoover: Grad -- Stanford University in 1895.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Grad -- Harvard University in 1904.
Harry S. Truman: No Degree
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Grad -- United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1915.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Grad -- Harvard University in 1940.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Grad -- Southwest Texas State in 1930.
Richard Milhous Nixon: Grad -- Duke University, School of Law in 1937.
Gerald R. Ford: Grad -- University of Michigan, B.A. Economics in 1935 & Yale Law School, Ll.B. in 1940.
James Earl Carter: Grad B.S., United States Naval Academy in 1945.
Ronald Reagan: Grad -- Eureka College in 1932.
George H.W. Bush: Grad -- Yale in 1948.
William Jefferson Clinton: Grad -- Yale Law School in 1973.
George W. Bush: Grad -- Yale, B.A. History in 1968 & Harvard Business School, MBA in 1975.
Barack Hussein Obama: Grad -- Columbia University, BA. Harvard Law School in 1991.
Harry Truman is the only US President since 1900 who not graduate from college,
Harry S. Truman
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College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton University
John Tyler graduated from William and Mary's College.
Harvard is John Quincy Adams's college.
Twenty US Presidents did not graduate college. Out of those 20, eight never went to college and 12 did not finish.
The electoral college
About 80%
The first U.S. President to graduate from a college was George Washington, who graduated with a surveyor's license. This is not considered a college graduation in terms of today's standard since this school was indeed a trade school. The next president to graduate from an institution was John Adams, our second president. He graduated from Harvard College (now called Harvard University) in 1755.
Thomas Jefferson attended W & M, but I am not sure he got a degree. If he did, John Tyler would be be the second president to graduate from there. James Monroe also went there, but left without graduating in order to fight in the Revolution.
There are no constitutional requirement concerning the education of a president. You question is obviously a matter of opinion. In general a college degree is most helpful in getting a first job. It is no guarantee that the person will be a good employee-- what really matters is what the person does once he is on the job. Being President requires many skills that can not be taught.