Mindy Kaling
Attended: Dartmouth College
Year Graduated: 2001
Degree Acquired: BA, playwriting
Fun Fact: Before she made it big in Hollywood, writing and starring in The Office and The Mindy Project, Mindy wrote for Dartmouth publications The Dartmouth and Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern. There, she created a comic strip called "Badly Drawn Girl," which has recently gone viral on the internet.
Conan O'Brien
Attended: Harvard University
Year Graduated: 1985
Degree Acquired: BA, American history
Fun Fact: In a 2015 interview, Conan confessed to pulling the ultimate prank on Bill Cosby during his time at Harvard. He reportedly convinced Bill that the ivy league school was honoring him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. According to Conan, Bill flew there, in a tuxedo, and received a bowling trophy from the funnyman himself.
Emma Watson
Attended: Brown University
Year Graduated: 2014
Degree Acquired: BA, English literature
Fun Fact: It took Emma five years instead of the typical four to graduate. This is still an impressive amount of time, however, considering she filmed a total of seven movies (the final two Harry Potter films, Perks of Being a Wallflower, and The Bling Ring, just to name a few) during her time at Brown.
John Legend
Meryl Streep
Rashida Jones
Attended: Harvard University
Year Graduated: 1997
Degree Acquired: BA, religion and philosophy
Fun Fact: When the Parks and Recreation star first attended Harvard, she had every intention of becoming a lawyer. The famous O.J. Simpson trial changed her mind, however, and she decided to take up acting (good choice, obviously).
John Krasinski
Lupita Nyong'o
Brooke Shields
Attended: Princeton University
Year Graduated: 1987
Degree Acquired: BA, French literature
Fun Fact: Brooke met Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) while they both attended Princeton. The two became college sweethearts, and she goes into detail about their relationship in her 2014 memoir, There Was a Little Girl.
Anderson Cooper
Attended: Yale University
Year Graduated: 1989
Degree Acquired: BS, political science
Fun Fact: The silver fox of CNN graduated from high school a semester early and decided to travel to Africa for a few months. Before he came back and started at Yale, he contracted malaria and was hospitalized in Kenya.
Ellie Kemper
Attended: Princeton University
Year Graduated: 2002
Degree Acquired: BA, English
Fun Fact: Before she became the star of her own show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, before she joined the cast of The Office, before she even stepped through the doors of Princeton, Ellie was just a normal high school student at John Burroughs School in Missouri - oh yeah, except that her teacher was none other than Jon Hamm.
Jordana Brewster
Dean Norris
Sigourney Weaver
Tatyana Ali
Jodie Foster
James Franco
Sara Gilbert
Julia Stiles
Attended: Columbia University
Year Graduated: 2005
Degree Acquired: BA, English literature
Fun Fact: Like Emma Watson (although before Emma Watson, to be fair), Julia took five years to complete college because she was filming back-to-back hits like Save the Last Dance, The Prince and Me, and The Bourne series.
Tommy Lee Jones
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Attended: Columbia University
Year Graduated: 1995
Degree Acquired: BA, English literature
Fun Fact: While Maggie graduated from Columbia in 1995, lil bro Jake Gyllenhaal ended up dropping out of the prestigious school.
Natalie Portman
Attended: Harvard University
Year Graduated: 2003
Degree Acquired: BS, psychology
Fun Fact: In her 2015 Harvard Commencement speech, Natalie discussed her struggles during her time at Harvard. She confessed that she attended Harvard to prove she lived up to the high standards set by her academic family, but by the time she graduated, she discovered that all she wanted to do was get back to acting.
Ashley Judd
Attended: Harvard University
Year Graduated: 2010
Degree Acquired: MFA, Public Administration
Fun Fact: According to the New York Times, Ashley has said that she "didn't go to Harvard Kennedy School to be approved of by anyone, but to immerse myself in some very serious, earnest, practical learning with people who have literally dedicated all they have to public service."
Julie Bowen
Attended: Brown University
Year Graduated: 1991
Degree Acquired: BA, Italian Renaissance studies
Fun Fact: The Modern Family star spent her junior year in Florence, Italy.