UA Named a Top Producer of Major Company CEOs
Five of the 500 Standard & Poor's companies chief executive officers (including three UA Engineering alumni) earned their degrees from the UA, making the institution one of the top producers of CEOs for the list of companies.
Of the 500 Standard & Poor's companies, five of the chief executive officers earned undergraduate degrees from the University of Arizona.
That places the UA among the top 20 producers of CEOs for some of the nation's top-grossing and leading companies, such as Apple Inc., Procter & Gamble, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson.
With five, UA is tied at 18th with the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Yale University and the U.S. Naval Academy, Bloomberg reports.
Also, the UA is the only institution in Arizona and in the southwestern region with at least three alumni who are now CEOs of one of the 500 companies.
The College of Engineering chairmen and CEOs who studied at the UA are:
- Alan L. Boeckmann of Fluor Corp. earned his electrical engineering degree from the UA, joining Fluor in 1974.
- Donald E. Felsinger of Sempra Energy earned a mechanical engineering degree from the UA.
- Gregory H. Boyce of Peabody Energy Corp. earned his undergraduate degree in mining engineering.
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