According to Eric Gergensen:
Elon Musk went to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he received bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics in 1997. He began graduate school in physics at Stanford University but left after several days to focus on being an entrepreneur.
Elon Musk, (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), South African-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment firm PayPal and formed SpaceX, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also one of the first significant investors in, as well as chief executive...
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Education
Musk graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in South Africa.
Musk attended
Waterkloof House Preparatory School,
Bryanston High School, and
Pretoria Boys High School, from which he graduated.
[28] Musk applied for a Canadian passport
through his Canadian-born mother,
[29][30] knowing that it would be easier to immigrate to the United States this way.
[31] While waiting for his application to be processed, he attended the
University of Pretoria for five months.
[32]
Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989 and lived with a second cousin in Saskatchewan for a year,
[33] working odd jobs at a farm and lumber-mill.
[34] In 1990, he entered
Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario.
[35][36] Two years later, he transferred to the
University of Pennsylvania, where he completed studies for a
Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a
Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the
Wharton School in 1995.
[37][38][39] He reportedly hosted large, ticketed house parties to help pay for tuition, and wrote a business plan for an electronic book-scanning service similar to
Google Books.
[40]
In 1994, Musk held two internships in
Silicon Valley: one at the energy storage startup Pinnacle Research Institute, which investigated electrolytic
ultracapacitors for energy storage, and another at the
Palo Alto–based startup
Rocket Science Games.
[41][42] In 1995, he was accepted to a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in
materials science at
Stanford University.
[43][44] However, Musk decided to join the
Internet boom instead and applied for a job at
Netscape, to which he reportedly never received a response.
[45][29]
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