Where was John B. Watson educated?

Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

As a young child, John B. Watson was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and at a modest private academy in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. He entered Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, when he was 16 and received a master’s degree in 1899. He earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Chicago in 1903.