How many of them are male?
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Sure, TAMU and UT have huge student populations. However, the three CEOs in the article attended the business and engineering schools at TAMU. These schools have combined student bodies that are comparable in size to a Harvard.
In the case of engineering I’m not sure there is an Ivy, except Cornell (which might be a land grant state college) with a higher ranking than TAMU and UT. For some reason, the Ivies missed the boat on investing in engineering.
The campus is not really hideous, unless one finds the smell of money hideous. The golf course in front of the campus actually looks quite nice.
http://www.businessinsider.com/universities-with-most-billionaire-undergraduate-alumni-2014-9
Penn has the most billionaires…in the world.
Since the same article also says that that 3 of the Fortune 100 CEOs didn’t even have any bachelor’s degree at all, I can write my own deceptive headline:
“For Becoming CEO of a Fortune 100 Company, a Texas A&M Degree is Worth No More Than No Degree At All”
Scipio, don’t joke about it, because my son almost dropped out of TAMU because Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison didn’t finish college. :-SS
No university GRADUATED more Fortune 100 CEOs than Texas A&M THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Current CEO, probably, graduated more than 20 years ago. Texas A&M had changed, dramatically. I would be surprised if, in 30 years, statistics for CEO would be the same. 
I think some mischievous professor at A&M should use this thread in a stats class as an example of how not to interpret data.
I think its a relevant data point. In addition TAMU appears to have a huge endowment and budget because of a politically well connected and wealthy loyal alumni network. Consequently, it can spend lots of $s on research, hire new profs as well as build new engineering facilities in addition to a new sports stadium and student center etc. It also attracts a decent number of NMFs and students with good GPAs and SAT scores to its honor program, Business school and engineering school etc.
In contrast and I am not sure why, but TAMU doesn’t appear to have a Nobel Prize winning faculty. It also doesn’t appear to have a large number of members of the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering on its faculty.
Is it possible that TAMU has hired a lot of great PhDs recently who just haven’t been around for long enough to be accepted to the National Academies?
This stat is silly. If you want to track what colleges crank out people that can follow and salute a system to get ahead, then go ahead. I agree with @DrGoogle in that I would rather track founders and leading edge thinkers that show new thinking.
The key takeaway (and, I suspect, the point of the OP) is that there are many paths to corporate leadership, and they don’t all go through the Ivy League.
Considering the number of smart, accomplished high school grads the Ivies (and their peers) hoover up every year, it’s no surprise they are over-represented statistically in the group. It doesn’t follow that any one individual is far more likely to be on the CEO track because they went to Yale instead of a good state school or small liberal arts college.
OP here! Not sure why people of the posters seem to think I added any personal touches or misrepresented anything. The story is linked as it stands with its original headline, with no personal comments as published by a respectable newspaper with a large circulation. If you have an issue with the story you may contact - http://www.chron.com/about/newsroom/ 
However, I agree with Roger’s comments about my intent for posting the story. This is not about A&M or any other specific school.
This is the time of the year when a million kids and their parents are struggling with the choices of schools, whether the schools they choose will limit their kids choices in future, what happens if someone gets into HYPS and ends up going to Baylor University and the list goes on. In the end, there are specific choices for the family based on their unique circumstances and ultimately it may or may not make a difference in their lives which school they end up attending, only whether they have the drive to succeed.
One last tidbit - Mark Hurd and Safra Catz are Co-CEOs of Oracle - one went to Penn and the other to Baylor but they share the same position in a Fortune 100 company.
State universities in Texas are incredibly wealthy, with endowments that rival the Ivy League, thanks to Oil:
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/01/29/texas-beats-out-yale-for-no-2-in-endowment-rankings/
I would take a hundred years at SC than a summer at college station…Dodgers, Lakers, SC, UCLA football, more food trucks than you can shake a stick at, korean bbq than rivals anything in Texas, and moreover, actual real life diversity…
Having spent time in both places, I can see your point; however, it’s not really fair to compare anyplace to summer in College Station (much less the perfect 78 degree weather of SoCal). That’s like comparing winter in Boston to Miami… And having been stuck in traffic trying to get to all those wonderful places in beautiful California weather isn’t much fun either. Alas, I agree that LA is somewhat more diverse than CS…
TAMU COA OOS $43,144
USC COA $67,212
$ 24,000 a year will buy a lot of vacations to Southern California or anywhere else the A&M student would want to go.
Somewhat more diverse than College Station??? That’s a little downplayed–LA is the most diverse city in the US–see:http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/21/american-diversity-cities-where-it-works.html
@SweetheartCroc Sorry,you are providing misleading figures. The UT “system” includes nine (9) universities and six (6) health institutions for a total of 15. Moreover, it support upwards of 220,000 students. It is great state supported system, buoyed in large part oil monies.
That said, it is not in the same level of largesse as Yale-Harvard or Princeton. The total student population at Yale is a little over 10,000 or about 5% of the UT system figure, and that is supported by an endowment of about 24 billion. Similar also with Harvard, about 20,000 student or 10% of the UT system figure, but supported by 35 billion. So, if you were to combine just these two Ivy schools, you would have 30,000 students and an endowment of 60 billion—its not even remotely close.