Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of
university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology
companies - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among them.
But 12 years after leaving Harvard to work on Facebook full time, he has returned to pick up his degree.
Zuckerberg founded what
was then called "The Facebook" in his college dormitory in 2004. The
service was at first limited only to Harvard students before expanding
to other Ivy League universities.
After receiving the honour he posted a photo of him with his parents Edward and Karen Zuckerberg.
Even after the company moved its headquarters to California,
Zuckerberg continued to be enrolled at Harvard until he dropped out in
November 2005. "I'm not coming back" he told the university paper The
Crimson.
His honorary degree
comes 12 years later, a little quicker than it took Bill Gates, another
famous Harvard dropout to get his. Gates, who left to found Microsoft in
1975, did not receive his honorary degree until 2007.
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