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S&P 500 Leaders Whose Filings Name a School
Share of S&P 500 CEOs, executive officers and directors with a known school, %
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.
CEOs · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Executive officers · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Directors · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.
S&P 500 members on 1 July of each year. Proxy statements print education more often than they used to; this is the coverage behind every count of where leaders went to school.
How often the largest U.S. companies tell shareholders where their leaders studied.
What this chart reads
- S&P 500 CEOs whose filings name a schoolas “CEOs”latest 2026-07-01
- S&P 500 executive officers whose filings name a schoolas “Executive officers”latest 2026-07-01
- S&P 500 directors whose filings name a schoolas “Directors”latest 2026-07-01
Sources
S&P 500 CEOs whose filings name a school. 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 whose filings name a school. 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 whose filings name a school. 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.
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