where did pres. obama go to school?
Occidental College Harvard Law School Noelani Elementary School Punahou School State Elementary School Menteng 01 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School Columbia University
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 After high school , Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College . In February 1981 , Obama made his first public speech , calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation 's policy of apartheid . In mid @-@ 1981 , Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half @-@ sister Maya , and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks . Later in 1981 , he transferred as a junior to Columbia College , Columbia University , in New York City , where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and lived off @-@ campus on West 109th Street . He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 and worked for a year at the Business International Corporation , then at the New York Public Interest Research Group . In 1985 , Obama was among the leaders of May Day efforts to bring attention to the New York City Subway system , which was in a bad condition at the time . Obama traveled to several subway stations to get people to sign letters addressed to local officials and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority , and was photographed at the City College subway station holding a sign protesting against the system 's condition . 

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 Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life . He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that he " was not raised in a religious household " . He described his mother , raised by non @-@ religious parents , as being detached from religion , yet " in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known . " He described his father as a " confirmed atheist " by the time his parents met , and his stepfather as " a man who saw religion as not particularly useful . " Obama explained how , through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties , he came to understand " the power of the African @-@ American religious tradition to spur social change . " 

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 While attending a Russian language class , Dunham met Barack Obama , Sr. , the school 's first African student . At the age of 23 , Obama Sr. had come to Hawaii to pursue his education , leaving behind a pregnant wife and infant son in his home town of Nyang 'oma Kogelo in Kenya . Dunham and Obama Sr. were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on February 2 , 1961 , despite parental opposition from both families . Dunham was three months pregnant . Obama Sr. eventually informed Dunham about his first marriage in Kenya but claimed he was divorced . Years later , she would discover this was false . Obama Sr. ' s first wife , Kezia , later said she had granted her consent for him to marry a second wife , in keeping with Luo customs . 

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 Besides his native English , Obama speaks some basic Indonesian , having learned the language during his four childhood years in Jakarta . He plays basketball , a sport he participated in as a member of his high school 's varsity team ; he is left @-@ handed . 

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 In 2011 , Bevin took all of his children out of school for a year for a 26 @,@ 000 @-@ mile ( 42 @,@ 000 km ) tour of the United States , visiting sites of educational or historical interest , including the Lorraine Motel in Memphis , Tennessee , where Martin Luther King , Jr. was assassinated and the Topeka , Kansas , schoolhouse at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision . After their application to adopt a daughter from Kentucky 's foster care system was denied because they already had five children , the Bevins adopted four children – between the ages of 2 and 10 – from Ethiopia in June 2012 . By 2015 , Bevin said all of his children were homeschooled . 
