Biography | Larry Page — Computer Engineering Degree at the University of Michigan

Larry Page earned his Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995. The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on North Campus was the home of the department during his years in Ann Arbor. While a student he built an inkjet printer out of Lego bricks, a project that has become part of the campus lore of inventive engineering. He also served as president of the local chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical and computer engineering honor society. The university was already a family tradition: his father had taught computer science at Michigan State, and both parents and his brother were Michigan alumni. From Ann Arbor he went on to Stanford for graduate study, where the search engine that became Google began. The EECS Building still stands on Beal Avenue as the place where Page completed the undergraduate work that preceded the founding of the company. Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building, 2013)