North ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Ashbury a Ottawa, Ontario da Choate School a Wallingford, Connecticut. An karbe shi a Harvard a daidai lokacin da mahaifinsa ya zama shugaban MetLife a gabar yamma, don haka North ya zaɓi ya je Jami'ar California, Berkeley. A cikin 1942, ya kammala karatu tare da BA a cikin General Curriculum-Humanities. Ko da yake maki ya kasance mafi kyau fiye da matsakaicin "C", ya yi nasarar kammala manyan abubuwa uku a fannin kimiyyar siyasa, falsafa da tattalin arziki.
Jami'ar California, Berkeley