As Barron Trump preps for spring 2025 at NYU, here's where his family graduated (and who didn't)

• Barron Trump, the only son of Donald Trump and Melania Trump, spent much of his childhood in New York.
• Trump and his children have many ties to the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
• Trump University or Trump U was a real estate program from 2005 to 2010. It was not an actual university.

Once again, Donald and Melania Trump will call the White House "home." What about their only child, Barron Trump?

On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2025, the former president will officially begin his second term in office, four years after leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. A day later, spring 2025 classes start at New York University, where Barron Trump attends school.

After the 18-year-old received his high school diploma in May 2024 from Oxbridge Academy near West Palm Beach, Florida, he broke away from family tradition by applying to NYU.

His father graduated from business school at the University of Pennsylvania, and Barron Trump's half-siblings — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump (born to Donald Trump and Ivana Trump) and Tiffany Trump (born to Donald Trump and Marla Maples) — each have ties to the University of Pennsylvania or Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

His parents never disclosed why he chose NYU over University of Penn or Georgetown, but the main campus is 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.

Where did the Trump family attend college? Here's a roundup.

Where did Donald Trump attend college?

Former president Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.

Where did Melania Trump attend college?

Melania Trump, former first lady of the U.S. from 2017 to 2021, briefly attended college, but never graduated. Then Melania Knauss, the Slovenian "began modeling at age 16, and two years later she signed on with an agency in Milan. She enrolled at the University of Ljubljana but dropped out after one year to pursue her modeling career," according to the Melania Trump bio on biography.com.

In her early days of modeling, the site states, Melania Trump worked in Milan and Paris before moving to New York in 1996. She met future husband Donald Trump two years later at a New York fashion party. (The Trumps were engaged in 2004 and married in 2005.)

Melania Trump, then known professionally as Melania Knauss, appeared on the covers of Harper's Bazaar (Bulgaria edition), Vanity Fair (Italy edition), GQ (for which she posed nude in January 2000) and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

The University of Ljubljana, or UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia.

Where did Donald Trump Jr. attend college?

Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Like his father, Donald Trump Jr. has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance.

Where did Ivanka Trump attend college?

According to a March 2017 story in the Georgetown Voice, Donald Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, was a student at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., but transferred after two years to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Ivanka Trump graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics from Penn in 2004.

Where did Eric Trump attend college?

Eric Trump graduated from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in finance and management in 2006.

Where did Tiffany Trump attend college?

Like her father, Tiffany Trump attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in sociology. Four years later, Tiffany Trump graduated from Georgetown Law School as part of the class of 2020. Like many class of 2020 seniors (for high school and college), Tiffany Trump's college graduation was a virtual commencement ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Where does Barron Trump go to college?

Barron Trump, the youngest son of former president Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, is a freshman at New York University's Stern School of Business. He started classes in September 2024 and is projected to be part of the class of 2028.

Barron Trump graduated high school May 17, 2024, from Oxbridge Academy near West Palm Beach, Florida.

What is Trump University?

Trump University or Trump U was a real estate program that ran from 2005 to 2010.

According to an April 2018 USA TODAY story, "Trump University was not an actual university but a for-profit seminar series, and former students waged a years-long battle claiming the course misled them with claims of teaching real estate success." That same month, a federal judge finalized a $25 million settlement between then-President Trump and students of his shuttered Trump University.

The order marked the end of two class-action lawsuits and a civil lawsuit from New York. Trump had entered settlement talks days after the 2016 election and in April 2018 agreed to pay the millions under terms that let him admit no wrongdoing, USA TODAY reported.

Contributing: Josh Hafner, USA TODAY

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