Primary Education :
, Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Bryanston High School, and then
Pretoria Boys High School, where he graduated.[37] Musk was a good but not exceptional student,
earning a 61 in Afrikaans and a B on his senior math certification.[38] Musk applied for a Canadian
passport through his Canadian-born mother,[39][40] knowing that it would be easier to immigrate to the
United States this way.
University
Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, where he earned two degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the university's Wharton School.[47][48][49][50] Although Musk has said that he earned the degrees in 1995, the University of Pennsylvania did not award them until 1997.[51][48][52] He reportedly hosted large, ticketed house parties to help pay for tuition, and wrote a business
plan for an electronic book-scanning service similar to Google Books.[53]
Internship
In 1994, Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley: one at energy storage
startup Pinnacle Research Institute, which investigated electrolytic ultracapacitors for energy storage, and another at Palo Alto–based startup Rocket Science Games.[54][55] In 1995, he was accepted to a graduate program in materials science at Stanford University, but did not enroll.[48][52] Musk decided to join the Internet boom,
applying for a job at Netscape, to which he reportedly never received a response.
