Famous College Dropouts

Famous College Dropouts

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Actors & Actresses
Ashton Kutcher (Ashton enrolled in the University of Iowa in 1996 to study biochemical engineering, but after being discovered by a talent scout the next year, he dropped out to pursue modeling and acting.)

Jessica Biel (The actress left Tufts University to play the role of Erin the 2003 remake of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”)

Mila Kunis (Mila briefly attended UCLA while filming, That 70’s Show, but eventually dropped out after finding it difficult to work while attending school.)

Brad Pitt (Brad went to school to be a journalist, but left University of Missouri early to head to California.)

Ben Affleck (Ben left the University of Vermont after just one semester and then dropped out of Occidental College to fully pursue acting.)

Oprah Winfrey (Oprah left Tennessee State University to pursue a career in media.)

Ryan Seacrest (America’s favorite broadcaster started out at the University of Georgia, but dropped out of college to move to California.)

Zooey Deschanel (Deschanel left Northwestern University before graduating to pursue acting full-time.)

Ben Stiller (Ben Stiller left UCLA, where he was studying film, to move back to New York to actually act.)

Matthew Morrison (Morrison left NYU Tisch School of the Arts to perform on Broadway.)

Ashton Kutcher (Kutcher was going to studying biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa, but he dropped out to pursue modeling and then acting.)

Amanda Seyfried (Amanda is rumored to have walked out of Fordham University on her first day of classes.

Anne Hathaway

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Bill Murray

Tom Hanks

Ellen DeGeneres

James Dean

Woody Allen

Directors
Steven Spielberg

Walt Disney

Musicians
John Lennon (The Beatles)

Thomas Rhett (Thomas attended Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, to study communications, but dropped out when he was 20 to pursue a career in music.) Life Changes song has lyrics “Majoring in undecided” :rofl:

Lady Gaga

Luke Combs (Luke dropped out of college to pursue a career in the music industry)

“There was no publishing deal, no record deal, and no booking deal. Everybody was like, ‘Yeah, this is never gonna work’ ~ Luke told People

John Mayer (John dropped out of Berklee College of Music to pursue his dreams on his own terms.)

Alicia Keys (Grammy-winning singer enrolled at Columbia University before dropping out to sign with Columbia Records.)

Kanye West (Kayne attended both the American Academy of Art and Chicago State University before ultimately dropping out and releasing his hit album, The College Dropout.)

Entrepreneurs
Robert Kiyosaki (Robert dropped out of University of Hawaii at Hilo to pursue business)

Steve Jobs (Apple)

Michael Dell (Michael started Dell from his University of Texas dorm room and left to see it through.)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Paul Allen (Microsoft Co-founder ditched Washington State University to join forces with Gates.)

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Arash Ferdowsi (Arash dropped out of MIT and cofounded Dropbox)

Jan Koum (Whatsapp)

John Mackey (Whole Foods)

Jack Dorsey (Twitter)

Evan Williams (Twitter)

Travis Kalanick (Uber)

Ralph Lauren

Julian Assange (Wikileaks)

Larry Ellison (Oracle)

Hiroshi Yamauchi (Hiroshi was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. He transformed Nintendo from a card-making company to a multi-billion dollar video game publisher)

Ty Warner (The Beanie Babies billionaire left Kalamazoo College to become an actor.)

Jack Taylor (Enterprise Rent-A-Car founder who dropped out of Washington University to enlist in the Navy.)

Daniel Ek (Daniel dropped out of a university in Sweden and later cofounded Spotify.)

Matt Mullenweg (Matt left the University of Houston to start WordPress.)

Sophia Amoruso (Sophia dropped out of community college before starting Nasty Gal.)

David Neeleman (JetBlue Airways founder who dropped out of the University of Utah a year before graduation.)

Vitalik Buterin (He attended the University of Waterloo, but dropped out in 2014, when he received the Thiel Fellowship in the amount of $100,000 and went to work on Ethereum full-time)
Buterin has written that although he was “never particularly inspired by the traditional education system”, when subjects were presented with “dedication and focus on intellectual inquiry”, he said:
“I noticed my attitude and my results almost immediately and drastically change. Education is ultimately much more than simply memorizing individual facts, or even learning individual concepts. What matters most: learning how to think, learning how to reason and learning how to learn.”

Wolfgang Puck

Ted Turner

Sean Hannity

Rush Limbaugh

Glenn Beck

Inventors
Nikola Tesla

Politicians
Harry Truman

John Glenn

Authors
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author of The Great Gatsby. In 1913, Fitzgerald enrolled in Princeton, but left because of failing grades)

Marianne Williamson (Marianne spent two years at Pomona College studying theater and philosophy before dropping out in 1973)

Jack Kerouac

Sports
Tiger Woods (In a world where prodigious sports talents tend to forgo higher education altogether for the pros, Tiger Woods chose to continue playing amateur golf at Stanford University as an economics major. Perhaps it was in Econ 101 that he learned the term “opportunity cost,” because his time at Stanford was not long. After two years there, Woods turned pro with his “Hello world” announcement, officially ending his collegiate career. He would go on to become one of the highest paid athletes in the world, earning more than $100 million annually at the height of his career. How’s that for economics?)

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