Alma maters of fictional movie characters

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Michael Douglas' character, Andrew Shepherd, (The American President) was an alum of this mid-western state school.

Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane), was expelled from this university in upstate New York, among others.

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) received his MBA from this university.

Tony Stark (Iron Man) graduated from this school by the age of 16.

Bruce Wayne (Batman Begins) dropped out after one year from this Ivy league school.

Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) graduated from this state university while interning with the FBI (her future employer).

Catherine Tracmell (Basic Instinct) graduated magna cum laude in psychology from this prestigious state school.

Peter Parker (Spider Man) enrolled here while working part-time. His best friend's father (and future arch-enemy) apparently also served as an adjunct there.

Dr. Jones (Indiana Jones) received his Ph.D. in archeology from this venerable university.

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Benjamin Braddock, the titular "Graduate," had recently graduated from this liberal arts college before being seduced by Mrs. Robinson.

Whether portrayed by Harrison Ford, Chris Pine, or John Krasinski, Tom Clancys "Jack Ryan" attended this Jesuit institution before joining the CIA.

The Great Gatsby's narrator, Nick Carraway, holds a degree from this Ivy league university.

In the Devil Wears Prada, protagonist Andrea Sachs had recently graduated from this Chicago-area university.

Michael Corleone (the Godfather trilogy) dropped out of this ivy league school before joining the military (and later the family business).

Charlie Sheen's character Bud Fox (Wall Street) went to this university in lower Manhattan before getting greedy.

Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), the precocious and pernicious high school class president drove Matthew Broderick crazy (in the movie Election) went on to study at this university, we learn in the closing sequences.

Gabe, the hapless husband to hero Adelaide in Jordan Peele's "Us," wears a sweatshirt with the name of this noted historically black university on it, suggesting that he was an alum.

Rushmore's Max Fischer (played by Jason Schwartzman) is failing out of boarding school when we meet him, but he claims that he will apply to the Sorbonnes and Harvard (his "safety" school), as well as this British university.