Question: What year did the Brigham Young University alumni eight president of Western Michigan University get his degree ?

text: List of Brigham Young University alumni
Academia and research -- University administration

This list of Brigham Young University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is the oldest existing institution within the LDS Church Educational System, is America's largest religious university, and has the second-largest private university enrollment in the United States. Approximately 98% of the 34,000 students at BYU are Mormon; two-thirds of its American students come from outside the state of Utah. In addition to its undergraduate program, BYU offers graduate degrees in 47 departments and includes two professional schools: the Marriott School of Management and the J. Reuben Clark Law School. BYU has approximately 370,000 living alumni. Over 26 BYU graduates have served in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, such as former Dean of the U.S. Senate Reed Smoot (class of 1876). Cabinet members of American presidents include former United States Secretary of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was U.S. Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, was valedictorian of his class in 1971. [citation needed]
 BYU alumni in academia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School Kim B. Clark, current Vice President of Yale, Scott Strobel '87, and Michael K. Young '73, President of Texas A&M University and former President of the University of Washington. The University also graduated Nobel Prize winner Paul D. Boyer, as well as Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the electronic television) and Harvey Fletcher (inventor of the hearing aid). Seven of BYU's twelve presidents were alumni of the University.
Name Class year ( s ) Degree ( s ) Notability
Stan L. Albrecht 1966 B.S Fifteenth president of Utah State University
David A. Bednar 1976 M.O.B . ( Marriott ) Fourteenth President of BYU-Idaho
Michael T. Benson 1990 B.A Twelfth President of Eastern Kentucky University ; fifteenth President of Southern Utah University ; fourteenth President of Snow College
Alison Davis-Blake 1979 1982 B.S . M.O.B . ( Marriott ) Dean of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
J. Elliot Cameron 1949 1949 B.S . M.S Past President of Snow College and BYU-Hawaii
Stanford Cazier  ( transferred to Utah before graduating ) Fourteenth President of California State University , Chico ; twelfth President of Utah State University
Kim B. Clark  ( transferred to Harvard University before graduating ) Fifteenth President of BYU-Idaho ; Dean of Harvard Business School
John Maximillian Dunn 1972 Ed.D Eighth President of Western Michigan University
William G. Dyer 1950 1952 B.A . M.A Fourth Dean of the BYU Marriott School of Management
Henry J. Eyring 1985 1989 1989 B.S . M.B.A. ( Marriott ) J.D . ( Clark ) Seventeenth President of BYU-Idaho ; Director of the BYU MBA Program
John R. Grout 1984 B.S . ( Marriott ) Dean of the Berry College Campbell School of Business
Bruce C. Hafen 1964 B.A Eleventh President of BYU-Idaho ; third Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School
Franklin S. Harris   Fifth President of BYU
Jeffrey R. Holland 1965 1966 B.A . M.A Ninth President of BYU
Matthew S. Holland 1991 B.A First President of Utah Valley University
Vern O. Knudsen 1915 B.A Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles
Rex E. Lee 1960 1996 B.A . Hon . D.L Tenth President of BYU
John W. Limbong 1978 M.S President of the University of International Golden Indonesia
F. Ann Millner 1986 Ed.D Eleventh President of Weber State University
Stephen D. Nadauld 1968 B.S Seventeenth President of Dixie State College ; ninth President of Weber State University ; Director of BYU MBA program