Early life and education
Drew won an athletics scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1926.
An outstanding athlete at Amherst, Drew also joined Omega Psi Phi fraternity as an off-campus member; Amherst fraternities did not admit blacks at that time.
After college, Drew spent two years (1926–1928) as a professor of
chemistry and biology, the first Athletic Director, and football coach
at the historically black private Morgan College in Baltimore, Maryland, to earn the money to pay for medical school.
Drew attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he achieved membership in Alpha Omega Alpha,
a scholastic honor society for medical students, ranked second in his
graduating class of 127 students, and received the standard Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degree awarded by the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1933.
Several years later, Drew did graduate work at Columbia University in New York City and earned a Doctor of Science in Medicine degree in 1940, becoming the first African American to do so.
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