Dr. Newt Gingrich for President?

Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid could deliver the Oval Office its first PhD in a century. Gingrich got a doctorate at Tulane; his dissertation was on Belgian education policy in the Congo. A PhD is rare in the White House—only Woodrow Wilson had one. While the three most recent Presidents boast graduate degrees, post-college education is uncommon. Here’s a guide.

President	Degree	Alma Mater	Fun Fact
Barack Obama	JD	Harvard, 1991 Notable Academic Achievement: First black president of the Harvard Law Review.	Are the "birthers" right after all? In the 1990 Revue—the law-review editors’ end-of-year parody publication—Obama’s mock bio reads: "I was born in Oslo, Norway, the son of a Volvo factory worker and part-time ice fisherman. . . . My mother was a backup singer for Abba."
George W. Bush	MBA	Harvard, 1975	Bush applied to go to law school at the University of Texas but was rejected.
Bill Clinton	JD	Yale, 1973	Met future wife Hillary Rodham in a Yale library.
Gerald Ford	LLB(forerunner of JD)	Yale, 1941	Worked as assistant football and boxing coach while earning his law degree.
Richard Nixon	LLB	Duke, 1937 Notable Academic Achievement: Graduated third in his class and was president of the Duke Bar Association.	Nixon is the last President to receive a graduate degree from a university other than Harvard or Yale.
Woodrow Wilson	PhD	Johns Hopkins,1886 Notable Academic Achievement: Dissertation was "Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics."	Also attended the University of Virginia School of Law but never received a degree.
William Howard Taft	LLB	University of Cincinnati, 1880	Taft became dean of the university’s law school in 1896.
Rutherford B. Hayes	LLB	Harvard, 1845	One of Hayes’s professors was Supreme Court justice Joseph Story.