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List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by education

A list of prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the educational institutions they attended. As of July 2024, of the 58 prime ministers to date, 31 were educated at the University of Oxford, and 14 at the University of Cambridge. Three attended the University of Edinburgh, three the University of Glasgow, two Mason Science College, a predecessor institution of the University of Birmingham, and one – the incumbent prime minister Keir Starmer – the University of Leeds. John Major was the last of the eight living prime ministers who did not attend university after leaving secondary education. A number of the prime ministers who attended university never graduated. Oxford gained its 29th prime-ministerial alumnus when Liz Truss succeeded Boris Johnson in September 2022, and its 30th – and fifth consecutive – a month later in Rishi Sunak. Starmer followed his undergraduate degree at Leeds with a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law degree at Oxford.

University offices held
Chancellor The following Prime Ministers served as Chancellor of their university: Cambridge:Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1748–1768) • Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1768–1811) • Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1919–1930) • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1930–1947) Oxford:Frederick North, Lord North (1772–1792) • William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1792–1809) • William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1809–1834) • Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1852–1869) • Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1869–1903) • Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1960–1986) Member of Parliament The following Prime Ministers served as MP for the university constituency for their university: Cambridge:William Pitt the Younger (1784–1806) • Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1811–1831) Oxford:Robert Peel (1817–1829) • William Ewart Gladstone (1847–1865) ==See also==
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