Elite Educational Credentials

Discussions center on verifying and critiquing the educational backgrounds of tech figures and commenters, often highlighting degrees from prestigious universities like Stanford, MIT, and Harvard to challenge claims of non-elitism.

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n0us Mar 7, 2016 View on HN

Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford, interesting combo

ececconi Feb 1, 2013 View on HN

Says the guy who went to Harvard

poet Mar 1, 2011 View on HN

Not just a PhD. He had a Fullbright at MIT. You'll find his biography either incredibly inspiring or depressing.

Dewie3 May 16, 2015 View on HN

PhD from MIT? I like him already.

dalore Mar 29, 2010 View on HN

You can tell because he went to MIT.

patrickg_zill Jan 1, 2014 View on HN

It seems extremely, extremely clear from the page you linked ... look at the sidebar: Education: BA 1974 from Stanford, Law Degree.He is a lawyer, and did not even get a science-related degree when he took his bachelor's (BA = Bachelor of Arts).

akhilcacharya Jun 13, 2017 View on HN

He went to MIT. It's nothing short of astonishing that he can claim to not be part of the elite.

manojlds Dec 8, 2013 View on HN

The concerned person is a techy who graduated out of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology.

agnosticmantis Feb 3, 2021 View on HN

Doesn’t Bezos have degrees in EE and CS?

ZBA Jul 8, 2014 View on HN

Mind if I ask what his degree was in? Would imagine it was something like computer science, as I've only ever heard of those in maths/stats/physics getting in with a PhD.