College Dropout

A college dropout is someone who has matriculated in an institution of higher learning, but has left his or her studies unfinished without the intention of completing.

This has become, in some cases, a status symbol given the success of some famous college dropouts.

FAMOUS COLLEGE DROPOUTS

Authors

Edward Albee — Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

William Faulkner — University of Mississippi

F. Scott Fitzgerald — Princeton University

Jack Kerouac — Columbia University

Edgar Allan Poe — The University of Virginia

John Steinbeck — Stanford University

Walter Stewart — University of Toronto

Comics

Woody Allen — New York University and City College of New York

Dan Aykroyd — Carleton University, Ottawa

Ellen DeGeneres — University of New Orleans

Rosie O'Donnell — Dickinson College and Boston University

Steve Martin — Long Beach State College

Computer Innovators

Paul Allen — Washington State University

Michael Dell — University of Texas at Austin

Larry Ellison — University of Chicago

Shawn Fanning — Northeastern University

Bill Gates — Harvard College

Wayne Inouye — University of California, Berkeley

Steve Jobs — Reed College in Portland, Oregon

Conservatives

Tucker Carlson — Trinity College in Connecticut

Barry Goldwater — University of Arizona

Rush Limbaugh — Southeastern Missouri State University

Karl Rove — University of Utah

Entrepreneurs

Barry Diller — University of California, Los Angeles

David Geffen — University of Texas at Austin and Brooklyn College, NY

John H. Johnson — University of Chicago and Northwestern University

Howard Jonas — Harvard College

Dean Kamen — Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Lief Larson

John Mackey — University of Texas at Austin

Tom Monaghan — University of Michigan

Ted Turner — Brown University

Jann Wenner — University of California, Berkeley

Movies/TV

Michael Almereyda — Harvard College

Warren Beatty — Northwestern University

Jessica Biel — Tufts University

Jack Black — University of California, Los Angeles

Stan Brakhage — Dartmouth College

Cindy Crawford — Northwestern University

John Cusack — New York University

Matt Damon — Harvard College

Claire Danes — Yale University

James Dean — University of California, Los Angeles

James Franco — University of California, Los Angeles

Richard Gere — University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Asha Gill — Kingston Polytechnic

Jake Gyllenhaal — Columbia University

Tom Hanks — Cal State University, Sacramento

Ethan Hawke — Carnegie Mellon University

Dustin Hoffman — Santa Monica College

Peter Jennings — Carleton University; University of Ottawa; Rider College

Michael Keaton — Kent State University

Andie MacDowell — Winthrop College (now Winthrop University)

John Malkovich — Illinois State University (A diploma was awarded to him in 2005)

Steve McQueen — Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) (expelled)

Eva Mendes — California State University, Northridge

Bill Murray — Regis College

Gwyneth Paltrow — University of California, Santa Barbara

Brad Pitt — University of Missouri

Elisabeth Shue — Radcliffe College (graduated 2000 with B.A., Government)

Kevin Smith — New School for Social Research (now The New School)

Steven Spielberg — California State University, Long Beach (went back to school and graduated 2002)

Ben Stiller — University of California, Los Angeles

Marisa Tomei — New York University

Brian Williams — Catholic University of America

James Woods — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Music

Paula Abdul — California State University at Northridge

Rivers Cuomo — Harvard College (returned Fall 2004; returned Spring 2006; expected to graduate June 7, 2006 with B.A., Literature)

Bob Dylan — University of Minnesota

Perry Farrell

Josh Groban — Carnegie Mellon University

Khanoda — Adelphi University

John Lennon — Liverpool College of Art

Madonna — University of Michigan

Yoko Ono — Sarah Lawrence College

Trent Reznor — Allegheny College

Brian Transeau — Berklee College of Music

Eric West

Kanye West — Chicago State University

Frank Zappa — Chaffey Junior College, San Bernardino

Others

Tom Leykis

Frank Lloyd Wright — University of Wisconsin

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