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Ivy League Degrees Among S&P 500 Leaders
Share of S&P 500 leaders with a known school who hold an Ivy League degree, %
1 of 3 series is above their level a year earlier·1 of 3 is at a five-year low
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
S&P 500 members on 1 July of each year, from their proxy statements (SEC EDGAR). Counts people whose filings name a school; many proxies print none, so the coverage chart goes with this one. Schools matched to ROR; business, law and medical schools count toward their university.
How concentrated corporate leadership is in eight universities, from the companies’ own filings.
What this chart reads
- S&P 500 CEOs with an Ivy League degreeas “CEOs”latest 2026-07-01
- S&P 500 executive officers with an Ivy League degreeas “Executive officers”latest 2026-07-01
- S&P 500 directors with an Ivy League degreeas “Directors”latest 2026-07-01
Sources
S&P 500 CEOs with an Ivy League degree. Source: Palanor calculation from SEC filings (DEF 14A proxy statements and 10-K certifications on EDGAR; public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0). Refreshed.
S&P 500 executive officers with an Ivy League degree. Source: Palanor calculation from SEC filings (DEF 14A proxy statements and 10-K certifications on EDGAR; public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0). Refreshed.
S&P 500 directors with an Ivy League degree. Source: Palanor calculation from SEC filings (DEF 14A proxy statements and 10-K certifications on EDGAR; public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0). Refreshed.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.