Dave Dobos, a state representative since January and a longtime Republican politician from Columbus' Hilltop who once served as Columbus City School Board president, never graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as he has publicly claimed for decades.
The claim of holding an MIT degree has been repeated by Dobos often dating back some 30 years, in everything from political campaigns to casual conversations.
An MIT spokesperson, Sarah McDonnell, said that Dobos' of claims of holding a degree from the prestigious research institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are incorrect.
“Dobos attended MIT as an undergraduate student in economics from September 1973 -August 1977; February 1978 – January 1979; and February 1980 – May 1980,” McDonnell said in an email to The Dispatch. “No MIT degrees were conferred.”
Dobos, 68, has claimed publicly to be an MIT graduate since at least since the early 1990s, when he ran for the Columbus Board of Education, and continued the claim consistently through the years up to the present.
Even up until early Tuesday, his official state website biography as a member of the Ohio House, a seat to which he was elected last November, said he was an MIT graduate.
"A graduate of West High School and MIT, Dobos used his education and training to start a small business," his state website said earlier Tuesday.
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