5 Highest Paid CEOs in the US and Their College Degrees

3. Sundar Pichai

College Degree: Metallurgical Engineering

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, began his career as a materials engineer before joining Google in 2004, where he led product management for various software products, including Google Chrome, ChromeOS, Gmail, and Google Maps. Under his leadership, Google also introduced the open-sourced video codec VP8 and the WebM video format in 2010, followed by the release of Chromebook in 2012. Selected as Google’s CEO in 2015, Pichai’s influence extends beyond tech, as evidenced by his inclusion in Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in both 2016 and 2020.

He graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a degree in metallurgical engineering, where he is recognized as a distinguished alumnus. Later, he earned an M.S. from Stanford University in materials science and engineering, and subsequently completed an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.