Biography | Elon Musk — The Penn Degrees After Queen's Would Not Keep Him

People treat Stanford as the campus he walked out of after two days. The degrees that actually issued are here, on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Musk left Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and transferred in 1992. In 1997 Penn granted him a Bachelor of Arts in physics and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School. College Hall and Locust Walk are the buildings a visitor can still stand under. The physics and the balance sheet were the two papers he took with him west. Stanford's applied-physics program accepted him. He enrolled and left almost immediately, arguing that the early web would move faster than a dissertation. Philadelphia is the city that holds the diplomas. Palo Alto holds the first company. The two-day Stanford story is true and incomplete without this campus. 1997 is the year. University of Pennsylvania is the pin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania