A: Barack Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California for two years before transferring to Columbia University in New York, where he earned a degree in political science; he later studied law at Harvard Law School. Prior to attending law school, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer for low-income neighborhoods in Chicago. read more
Barack Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother attended college. Obama started a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. read more
Barack Obama attended Occidental College, a small urban LosAngeles college, from 1979 to 1980. He transferred to ColumbiaUniversity in New York,. read more