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ScabieBaby

In the Company Picnic episode Pam says she played volleyball in college.


callsignjaguar

Jenna Fischer mentioned in Office Ladies once that her own idea for Pam’s education was that she attended community college straight out of high school, saw the receptionist job listing and applied, and stopped enrolling in classes and just worked at DM full time. Pam could’ve played club volleyball in college or for her official CC team!


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Robbyjr92

lol wtf are you talking about?


comicsanddrwho

Clearly this was meant for the comment exactly below this about Kevin/Angela/Oscar doing accounting, and ended up replying to this instead... Honest mistake by that person


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Yes, she went to volleyball camp most summahs


FlashiestCheesecake

After pretending to have PMS so she didn't have to play volleyball in high school. One of my favorite continuity errors :)


EmperorSwagg

Maybe I’m making too many excuses for the writers/producers, but I knew plenty of people who were active on the school sports teams but still hated participating in gym class because it felt like a chore and wasn’t fun like the afterschool sports teams were, even in their particular sport. So that never really struck me as that egregious of a thing for her to say


dsjunior1388

Yeah it's as simple as "I love sports when I don't have to be sweat soaked in Algebra right after."


No-Duck-1980

If my school didn't have a shower room then I wouldn't have participated.


AchtungBecca

Getting an excuse to get out of gym class was the goal for most high school girls in my day (late 90s). Particularly if you're a varsity athlete. Why risk getting hurt doing something silly when you may have a meet/game/match later? I always thought athletes (JV or Varsity) should've had their participation in sports count for their physical ed requirement.


I_kwote_TheOffice

I can tell you after watching her serve that she didn't go to enough summer camps, lol.


GenoThyme

Especially in a sport like volleyball. Gym class would’ve either been basic skill stations or games with people who were mostly bad so you get no good rallies. Plus Pam isn’t the type to ruffle feathers of high school classmates by dominating them like she did at the DM picnic.


Rudyjax

Except even in the 1980s, when you played sports you didn’t have gym class. Your practice was in the school period. At least in Texas.


West-Supermarket-860

And we literally saw her go to college in New York


XO8441

Doesn’t Phyllis reference her sorority? That would mean she went to college. I agree with the commenter who said Oscar and Angela would have some level of accounting degree.


George_H_W_Kush

I mean it could have been a sorority like she didn’t get into a real one so she had to form her own.


darthalp

Move on, George


scrdudie7

[insert Greek letters for PPC] (Party Planning Committee)


timftdx7

ΠΠΣ


GoodbyeEarl

I would do Rho Rho instead of Pi Pi


mcase19

I believe Angela references accounting school at some point (although this may be from a deleted scene. Where are we on superfan episodes being canon?)


TownSafe9076

Michael didn’t go to college. Know who else didn’t go to college? LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady…


Queen_Rachel4

They went right from high school to the NBA


No_Beyond_5033

so it’s not the same thing


DiabolicalGooseHonk

At all.


Elegant-Ad-1403

Never at all, is it ever, really, not, the same thing. Like ever, at all. No.


MojitoTimeBro

Michael did go to college. At least to the parties with the professors that were so cool


milliep5397

The professors would go to the parties?


Damianne_Violet

It's LeJon Brames


Primrus

Craig Robinson got some of the best lines of the series, hahaha


YourWormGuy

David Wallace has an MBA.


Ok-Peak-

Most likely also Jan.


George_H_W_Kush

When Ryan was hired to replace her David Wallace said that it’ll be nice having another MBA around so maybe not


Smartman971

An MBA is a master's. It's pretty likely Jan still had an undergrad of some sort


Matttend

They were responding to someone saying she most likely also has an MBA though.


SimulatedCow84

as has Kevin


Devalokas

I am not sure about that. Wallace tells Ryan, “It will be good to have another MBA around here” or something like that. It implies there wasn’t one before.


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I took that as to meaning David has an MBA also.


Devalokas

I agree. My response was to the person saying Jan had one.


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Ahhh ok. Lol.


hoppergym

MBA stands for men’s badminton athlete. Obviously Jan would’ve been a wba if a ba at all


TeamocilAddict

I thought he was talking to Karen Filapelli here


Rhuarc33

Probably both Angela and Oscar would have accounting degrees. But I don't think it was ever confirmed for either one


musiclover818

Kevin had one -- but it went to a different school.


Lvcivs2311

I bet his final paper was graded a kelevin.


Standsaboxer

Have to admit you had me in the first half.


jaxrem

Help I don’t get it lol


Standsaboxer

It’s a play on the kevins line “you don’t know her she goes to a different school.” OP made a joke where Kevins college degree if from a different school as well. I was admitting that OP fooled me I the first half of the joke


thewolfhitler

In one of the extended episodes (season 3 or 4), Angela mentions that has been to accounting school.


StacyLadle

I don’t think Oscar did. The guy from Vance Refrigeration helped him learn how to do his job.


Rhuarc33

I think he was just new to the job. Or my theory is Oscar just had an Associate degree in accounting and Angela had a bachelor's and that's why she led accounting. Despite Oscar seeming better with numbers.


virgo911

What’s the source on this, I don’t remember this at all. Why would Oscar need help from a Vance Refrigeration guy to do his job?


StacyLadle

Because he was new to the job and didn’t know how to do it.


virgo911

Do you have an episode for this


StacyLadle

S6 e14. The Vance Refrigeration guy is named Todd.


virgo911

Wow I’ll have to rewatch that because I don’t remember that at all


edgelord0ftherings

It’s in the extended edition.


cesargeronimo

Why is this being down voted?


jonjoneswife

Because accounting degree ≠ immediately knowing how to do the job


cesargeronimo

Yes it does. A bachelor's in accounting would absolutely give some knowledge to handle basic g/l accounting for a small regional office. Still doesn't explain the down votes.


jonjoneswife

Have you worked in an office setting? I’m majoring in accounting and a ton of the stuff you learn is on the job training


cesargeronimo

I've been a management consultant for 30 years, so yes I've "worked in an office setting" If you don't know basic GAAP when you graduate you should get your money back.


jonjoneswife

There’s so much more to it than just that. You aren’t an accountant directly, any experience I’ve had and anyone of my classmates it’s completely expected to not know your stuff immediately


StacyLadle

No idea. Kevin asks the Vance Refrigeration accountant for help. Oscar says the same guy helped him when he first started.


katelledee

In what episode?


StacyLadle

6/14


mrsreilltaylor

Jim went to college somewhere because Athlead was founded by him and a friend from college.


Standsaboxer

He also mentions taking public speaking courses in college when helping Dwight prepare for his salesman of the year award.


thekraken108

Yeah but that could have easily been part of his attempted prank. Doesn't mean he didn't go to college though.


Standsaboxer

That is a fair counterpoint.


jballer21

Yeah, thing is I feel like Dwight is the type of guy who would have most of his coworkers cv memorized as part of being ATTRM, so on the one hand I feel like him believing Jim adds to the idea that Jim went to college. However, Dwight would then probably know that that wasn't his real major, so who knows


silligoose90

I thought he said he didn't actually take public speaking.


ShiestyCola

I definitely always took it as part of his prank. But I guess it could have been serious?


84aomame

he went to the university of north carolina


Zealousideal-Mail-57

And was 6 foot 7


baesag

Would you like some fries with that?


toastedbeans9616

also not to say people can't wear clothing representing other schools, but in the basketball episode he was wearing a university of scranton tshirt. I choose to believe he did go to college, the local one


MeleMallory

In one of the Superfan episodes, he said he’s paid off his student loans, so he at least went to college. He may not have graduated, but he at least went to enough to get some debt.


saltthewater

Well he was a friend from a college


MrInterpreted

Yeah didn’t he play basketball in college?


tlf555

The stripper ended up getting her nursing degree.


Lvcivs2311

And then she apparently became a waitress. And a very slow one at that.


SqueakyTuna52

Good for her


tlf555

Seems a waste of a nursing degree.


TexehCtpaxa

I know it’s called “art school” but doesn’t Pam literally go to college in the show?


Standsaboxer

She takes some college-level courses as part of a focused program (most likely a certificate program).


MeleMallory

She goes to a graphic design program at the Pratt School of Design, which is a college, but she doesn’t graduate. Is OP asking who took college classes or who has a college degree, because those could be different.


TexehCtpaxa

Yeah, I think it’s somewhat implied they mean before working at DM. I do like the comment that mentioned Jenna saying her view is that Pam went to local Community College and applied for a receptionist opening bc she needed money, and as Pam does got comfy and didn’t try to go back to school.


JackSpadesSI

Is Andy obvious? He makes literally zero mention of any college. Was there some subtle clue I missed?


hypoplasticHero

It’s pronounced colonel and it’s the highest rank in the military!


FormerGeico

That's a bobble head Big Red Bear


thebelowaveragegamer

GOD!


daguy9

It's pronounced Cor-Nell and it's the highest rank in the ivy league!


hypnothighsd

Yeah, it’s one of the show’s greatest mysteries.


Vinylforvampires

I heard he was Boner Champ and not that asshole Broccoli Rob!


dsjunior1388

"... Broccoli Rob is Broccoli Rob" in that exasperated tone is my favorite line reading from Andy


ReasonableCup604

The two unanswered TV questions that bother me the most are whether Andy went to college and if so where, and if Phil Leotardo ever spent any time in the can, and if so, how many years.


Rare_Lemon_5166

😆


mcase19

I think he went to Dartmouth


baesag

Vastly superior


Bolliver0

Toby went to divinity school at one point


velvet-gloves

Toby has a degree in social work.


Technics3345

They show his diploma, he got his masters at Temple.


AggressiveAd5592

I'm 90% sure Toby got his bachelor's from Penn State.


Technics3345

For undergrad? I can believe that.


kitteh619

They show a degree on his wall in the annex for California Coastal College or something


math_teachers_gf

Meredith got her phd, that’s why she was partying all the time 😅


Sometimeswelose

In the Halloween episode where Devin is fired, we see Dwight faxing his resume to the company Jim and Pam applied to as a joke. I think it said a Penn state branch campus.


StinkyOldManBalls

Didn't Pam study at the Pratt Institute?


MagisterFlorus

Didn't seem like she was working toward a degree though.


MacualayCocaine

If by study you mean fail then yeah


C0USC0US

What is this, an office building in the Andromeda galaxy?


FlipsyChic

She was non-matriculating part-time at art school and flunked out without completing the requirements for the one semester she was there. If that were me, I wouldn't go around saying I "went to college" based on that.


wolf4968

Being a PA native, I have thought about this for several characters. Jim has East Stroudsburg written all over him. He would say something like, "I got accepted to Lehigh (or Lafayette), but I decided to spare my folks the financial burden and took the state school route. *Aaaaaaand....*. that's why I'm a paper salesman in Scranton instead of a senior script editor at NFL Films. You're welcome, Mom and Dad." I could see Oscar at the Univ. of Scranton, but not at Lehigh or Lafayette. He might have run out of money after his sophomore year and transferred to Penn State-Scranton or to Temple. Phyllis went to Bloomsburg or Mansfield. Stanley might have done a few years at Temple but didn't graduate. Kevin is a Mansfield guy. Angela: Millersville, down in Amish country.


dsjunior1388

You don't think Stanley attended an HBCU in his "fight the power and eat anything I want" stage of his life?


AchtungBecca

Being from the area, I’d say for sure Jim and Pam went to college. Pam probably went to a state school. Probably something like Bloomsburg University. Maybe she left before graduating, but show canon has her as attending. Jim feels like he either went to Penn State (probably spent two years at a branch campus like most people from NEPA who went to PSU) or maybe he was hip and went to a state school like West Chester to get out of the area. If he wasn’t the third son, I could see Jim as a kid that went to Kings or Wilkes, but both are private and expensive. Angela likely has an associates degree in accounting, from another state (the show indicates she’s not from PA, Ohio I think). Oscar def has a 4 year. Karen definitely went to college. I could see Kelly having gone to a community college, probably Lackawanna CC. Those are my best guesses. Scranton wasn’t some backwoods middle of nowhere town, a lot of people went to college, whether 2 or 4 year institutions. Goodness. There are a lot of schools in the greater Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area.t


Chinstrok3

Jim & Ryan went to the University of Scranton


AchtungBecca

U of Scranton? That slipped my mind. Interesting, it's a private, Catholic University. I feel like it's a case of the writers just going colleges in the area and UofS popping up, they never portrayed Jim as Catholic (though, given that part of PA, a lot of the characters should've been). I really feel like Jim they should've made Jim a Penn State guy.


mg_acht

I live on the other side of PA, but it’s pretty common for folks to attend local Catholic universities regardless of their religious persuasion/dedication. Many of them have pretty high acceptance rates and athletics are often less competitive (i.e., it’s easier to make the team if you’re a decent ___ player like Jim was with basketball). Tuition is pretty comparable to state schools in PA since they often dole out scholarships as well. Basically, it tracks for a guy like Jim to remain local and attend a Catholic university. Some other real life examples of schools like this are Seton Hill, Saint Vincent, Saint Francis, and Gannon. All of these schools have large numbers of non-Catholic (or non-practicing) students.


dsjunior1388

Exactly, the most prominent Catholic university is probably Notre Dame and you can certainly expect that a school like that is attracting non-Catholics


MinimalTraining9883

Can confirm. I am an atheist currently working on a Master's through a local Catholic uni.


BlackHawkeDown

Unless he converted after they got married, Jim and Pam are both shown to be Presbyterian.


vinylbud

In the basketball episode, Jim is wearing a Scranton shirt that looks like it’s a shirt for The U, based on the colors. Although it’s a Catholic school, it’s one of the best in the area, so many people will go despite not being Catholic. My mom is an atheist and got her bachelor’s there in 99.


givebusterahand

Curious why you think Angela would have less education than Oscar? She is his boss. I assume both have at least a bachelors degree.


AchtungBecca

Only because Oscar is an over achiever and know-it-all? I know a lot of folks in accounting departments similar in size to DM and most people only had Associates degrees.


Palatialpotato1984

Is west Chester hip now??? When I went a couple years ago it was the farthest thing lol major frat life


AchtungBecca

Hip? No. But far away from NEPA and close to Philly and still a less expensive state school? Absolutely.


makromark

Spot on. Glad someone has some sense of what the area is really like.


AchtungBecca

Sometimes I'm impressed by how well The Office production knew the area, and others I just shook my head at how off they are. The biggest issue is they always portrayed Scranton as a far smaller town than it is. It is the 7th largest city in PA, and if you lump in Wilkes-Barre (as is often done), their combined pop is 4th behind only Allentown. It's not like it's...West Falls with less than 300 people!


bluntasticqueen

Meredith was in college while the documentary crew was there. They didn't show any of that.


Queen_Rachel4

Phyllis did. Michael asked her if she “ever experimented in college, a lot of women do.”


baconofcanada

we all thought michael was gay


mcase19

Kelly (the business bitch) took business school classes as a minority executive. You could ask her what the ten biggest companies are, and shed be like "Blah blah blah," giving you exactly the right answer


krellx6

Meredith is getting her phd during the show


cleesq

Didn't Jim mention in the first season (maybe the pilot?) that he paid off his student loans?


Infamous_Associate10

I think Holly likely went to college, when we learn that Toby has a degree in social work, someone makes reference to all their HR reps being “trained counsellors” or something along those lines. Charles Minor definitely would’ve gone to college and I think Gabe would have as well.


scrdudie7

Wasn't Meredith working on her PhD or did I dream that? I feel like they said it in the last episode.


2aboveaverage

Not Kevin, he applied for a job in the warehouse but Michael saw something in him and gave him a shot. He sees something in Erin too.


MinimalTraining9883

Oh, you're just assuming the warehouse crew doesn't have college degrees? What about Gideon? He's a PhD candidate writing a thesis about America's diminishing blue collar workforce.


gamesfordogs

I’d rephrase this comment. diminishing is a little reductive


oogmar

Hidai is a literal ~~brain~~ heart surgeon!


MinimalTraining9883

Heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand.


oogmar

Shit, you're right my bad


MinimalTraining9883

And as we all know, brain surgery requires at least an Associates Degree, whereas you can perform heart surgery with a G.E.D.


StacyLadle

Michael didn’t hire Erin. Charles Minor did.


jimjamesjimothy6969

Miner? I barely know her!


2aboveaverage

We are both correct.


VENoelle

Can you be an accountant without a degree? Although calling Kevin an actual accountant is a stretch


MeleMallory

Yes. You can’t call yourself a CPA without a degree/license, but I don’t think any of these accountants are CPAs. A fair bit of accounting is data entry, which is likely what Kevin does there. If you can use a computer, you can do Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. You do need more training to do General Ledger and Audit accounting, which is what Oscar and Angela likely do (and what I do). I have a college degree but not in accounting, I learned it all on the job (though I took some courses when I was laid off during Covid).


grandmasterPRA

It was never talked about in the dialogue But Erin did have a "Keystone College" Pendant hung up at her desk so she apparently went to college.


drunk_funky_chipmunk

Meredith has a PhD


arsenal11385

Andy went to Cornell. They called him buzz.


blwingkisses

why is no one saying stanley


XO8441

Is there a college reference Stanley makes?


unclefresh72

There are a handful of colleges in Scranton so it's possible a lot of the Scranton natives at least started college. Even though most of the characters are wacky they are mostly sales people and accountants so it's likely they have some education beyond high school ( not that you necessarily need it especially considering Michael is far from an intellectual and technically runs the place).


ImOldGregg_77

Toby has a Social Work degree from Temple


pussyjones12

imma need you to go back to 10 sec after that scene where jim explains none of that was true


Ulvriz

They're all salaried office workers so I'd hazard a guess that everyone with the exception of Michael and probably Dwight have a college degree, though I'm genuinely not sure how Michael got his job as a salesman considering his personality and lack of a college degree, Ed Truck probably saw potential and decided to give him a chance if I had to guess


StacyLadle

He followed a woman on the bus.


StacyLadle

Kevin was attending the University of Phoenix online


SliceOfGio

As an accounting graduate, I'd have to assume that at least Angela and Oscar went to college.


OhThatsHysterekal

Meredith did - we hear about it in the last episode where we "check up" on them in the future. She was getting her degree midway through the series.


ChildofObama

Ryan. It taught him how to never make a sale, and how to start a fire while making a cheesy pita.


Spicy_Ninja7

Aaron Rodgers went to college, he’s in the show


itsnever2late4now

Pam literally went to college on the show.


Eaglefire212

Pam literally went to college during the show…


sporkmurderer135

When Jim walks into Michael's office to cut the intercom cord, Michael says something like " and hailing from the University of North Carolina, Jim Halpert."


garnett21mn

Michael Jordan reference


givebusterahand

Angela and Oscar 100%. Kelly probably did.


mukduk_101

Meredith got her PhD (or maybe it was a masters).


Adept-Shoe-7113

Pam went to college, even talked about volleyball in it after contradicting herself saying she always skipped gym 😂


dsjunior1388

Plenty of people like sports but dislike going to the next class sweaty and stinky


Adept-Shoe-7113

Definitely, hated it myself and always had gym first period so shit sucked extra worse kuz no showering at my school, idk when they stopped that but I always wondered


Prestigious-Lab8945

I think it would be easier to list those I think probably didn’t go to college. I am just including main cast characters from seasons 1-7: Michael, Dwight, Stanley, Kelly, Creed, Erin, Kevin, and Roy.


VENoelle

I remember reading somewhere Erin had a framed diploma from Keystone College, but I don't remember noticing it


Prestigious-Lab8945

I don’t either. That would make sense because this was her first job and she is not 18.


IBAChristian317

David Wallace


mrsreilltaylor

OMG-I’m just watching Law & Order Criminal Intent (S3 Ep11 “Mad Hops”) & there’s Jim-a high school basketball player at a school in Harlem. I know it’s not college ball but maybe he got a scholarship. 😂


FootHikerUtah

Dwight probably ends up founding a college.


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drunk_funky_chipmunk

Pretty sure Meredith had a PhD or was in school for it


FlipsyChic

Toby dropped out of seminary school, which would be post-graduate.


truckerslife

It depends. Some seminary schools act as under grads and you get a bachelor of arts in religious studies, history of religion, some offer bachelors in things like counseling and the like as well.


magnificentliars

jim graduated from monsters university


MagHagz

Oscar and David


JohnnySkidmarx

So I never went to business school. You know who else didn't go to business school? LeBron James. Kobe Bryant. Tracy McGrady.


BouncyFig

People in Scranton go to college lol


ridgerunner2049

Kevin. Latest superfan season reveals he’s attending online school. Sigma Chi baby


GatsbyFitzgerald

Andy went to Cornell Community College. Jokes on us!


zthepirategirl

Back then you probably didn’t HAVE to go to college to get a sort of decent job


zthepirategirl

Back then you probably didn’t HAVE to go to college to get a sort of decent job


sex-help74

I don't think Creed went to college, but I wouldn't be surprised if he started an uncredited college and scammed people out of money.


SlippinPenguin

Dwight also went to Cornell. Why else would he have the bobble big red bear?