From his Wikipedia article "Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college, attended Harvard University ... He graduated magna cum laude with a Bache

From his Wikipedia article "Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college, attended Harvard University ... He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and economics in 1977." He's certainly more accomplished even before joining Microsoft than most of the HN pundits that mock him.