David Schwimmer graduated from a private university.
David Schwimmer . In 1988 , he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech . Northwestern University ( NU ) is a private research university based in Evanston , Illinois , with campuses in Chicago , Illinois , and Doha , Qatar , and academic programs/facilities in Washington , D.C. , and San Francisco , California . Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference .