Starting in fall 2024, Barron Trump will go to New York to study, his father said, rather than the University of Pennsylvania or Georgetown in Washington, DC
Who is Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump?
Barron, the son of Donald Trump and Melania Trump, largely stayed out of the spotlight during his father’s time in office, but is now helping with the campaign.
- Barron Trump spent much of his childhood in New York – and lived there until his father was sworn in as the 45th President in early 2017.
- A year ago, Trump said his youngest son was considering the University of Pennsylvania, where the former president graduated.
- Former First Lady Melania Trump briefly attended the University of Ljubljana (UL) but never completed her studies.
Barron Trump, class of 2028?
The only child of Donald and Melania Trump has chosen to attend college in New York and will soon begin the fall semester of 2024, according to an interview with Donald Trump in the New York Post on August 20. The former president told the newspaper that Barron Trump was “in good hands at a certain school. He was always a very good student, he is smart.”
Neither Donald nor Melania Trump have announced which New York university Barron Trump will graduate from. However, according to the Washington Post, Donald Trump said his team would announce the news “soon.”
What college will Barron Trump attend and what will his major be?
Here’s what we know, plus a summary of which universities members of the Trump family attended and what degrees they earned.
As of Friday, August 23, it had not been announced which college Barron Trump would attend. However, in a New York Post article on August 20, 2024, Donald Trump told the newspaper that Barron Trump had chosen to attend college in New York.
With his college choice, Donald Trump’s youngest child seems to be rebelling against family tradition: Barron Trump will not attend the University of Pennsylvania or Georgetown University, which have close ties to the Trump family (see below).
Is Barron Trump going to New York University?
In April 2024, rumors began to swirl that Barron Trump might attend New York University. NYU’s campus is not far from Trump Tower in Manhattan, where Barron Trump spent much of his childhood and lived until his father was sworn in as the 45th president in early 2017. Barron Trump lived with his parents in the White House until Donald and Melania Trump moved permanently to Trump’s private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida in 2019.
Will Barron Trump attend NYU? Which celebrities and famous people have attended NYU?
In case you’re wondering, Barron Trump wouldn’t be the only “famous” person to attend NYU: They include Rudy Giuliani, Angelina Jolie (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”), Lady Gaga, Chris Evans (“Captain America,” “The Avengers” films, “The Gray Man”), Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock,” “Beetlejuice”), Anne Hathaway (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “The Idea of You”), Timothée Chalamet (the “Dune” films, “Call Me by Your Name”), Adam Sandler (“Fifty First Dates,” “Just Go With It”), Elizabeth Olsen (“Doctor Strange,” “Wandavision”), and James Franco (the “Spider-Man” films, “The Interview”).
Is Barron Trump going to Cornell University in New York?
Donald Trump told the New York Post that his team would soon announce which New York college his youngest son would attend. Cornell University – whose tuition starts at $66,000 a year, according to US News and World Report – ranked high on the publication’s list of the “2024 Best Colleges in New York.”
According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Barron Trump does not appear in the student directories of Cornell University, Columbia University, and New York University at the time of publication. Enrolled first-year students at Cornell University are usually listed.
Is Barron Trump going to Columbia University in New York?
Like Cornell University, Columbia University, whose tuition starts at $65,000 per year, ranks high on U.S. News and World Report’s list of “2024 Best Colleges in New York.” Columbia and Cornell share 12th place. Cornell’s student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun, checked the student directory for Cornell and at the time of publication, Barron Trump’s name did not appear.
When Barron Trump graduated from Oxbridge Academy on May 17, 2024, he was one of 116 graduates to receive their diploma. While the names of the graduates were announced over a loudspeaker, Barron Trump’s name was not called, probably to avoid additional attention.
What college did the Trumps attend? What was Donald Trump’s major?
- Former President Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and received a bachelor’s degree in economics in May 1968.
- Former First Lady Melania Trump, Barron Trump’s mother, briefly attended the college but never graduated. Then Slovenian Melania Knauss “started modeling at age 16 and signed with an agency in Milan two years later. She enrolled at the University of Ljubljana but dropped out after a year to pursue her modeling career,” says Melania Trump’s biography on biography.com. The University of Ljubljana (UL) is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia.
- Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump’s eldest son with his first wife Ivana Trump, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Like his father, Donald Trump Jr. holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter with Ivana Trump, was a student at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, but transferred to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania after two years. Ivanka Trump graduated from Penn with a bachelor’s degree in economics with honors in 2004.
- Eric Trump, son of Donald and Ivana Trump, graduated from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in finance and management.
- Like her father, Tiffany Trump attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 2016. Four years later, Tiffany Trump graduated from Georgetown Law School in 2020.
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