Bill Gates: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree” - And he did

Microsoft Chairman and Co-Founder Bill Gates has been waiting for over 30 years, 32 years to be more specific, to finally get his degree from Harvard University. And, yesterday June 7, 2007, William H. Gates III (Bill Gates) was awarded a honorary degree at Commencement’s Morning Exercises at Harvard. Gates is now the proud possessor of a Doctor of Laws degree from the American University. Gates quit Harvard in his junior year following the first successful sale of the programming language BASIC he had authored for the MITS Altair. After he left Harvard, Gates dedicated himself to Microsoft, the company he had founded with Paul Allen in 1975.

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