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Where children of the past 13 US presidents attended college

September 4, 20240
Barron Trump is starting his freshman year at NYU.

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  • Many children of US presidents attend their parents’ alma maters.
  • Others choose to chart their own paths at a different school, or they skip graduating altogether.
  • Barron Trump recently began his first year at New York University.

Deciding where to go to college is a big moment for any teenager, but when you’re the child of a president and the entire world is watching to see where you’ll end up, the pressure is even greater.

The announcement of where Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s youngest child, would be attending college has been highly anticipated ever since his father teased that he had made his decision in July.

Unlike his siblings, Barron isn’t attending his father’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. Instead, he’ll be at NYU this year, which costs $72,080 as a commuter student. (The New York Post reported that Barron is expected to live at Trump Tower and commute.)

Here’s where every child of a president has attended college as far back as JFK’s children, Caroline and JFK Jr.

Joe Biden’s two living children, Hunter and Ashley Biden, attended Georgetown University and Tulane University for their undergraduate degrees, respectively.
Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Tiffany Trump in November 2015.

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Three of President Trump’s children followed in his footsteps and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Ivanka and Donald Jr. took it one step further and also attended the Wharton School of Finance. Tiffany, on the other hand, graduated with a degree in sociology.

Eric attended undergrad somewhere else — he went to Georgetown University — but he earned a similar degree in finance. Ivanka had also started her college career there, but she later transferred to Penn.

Tiffany also ended up attending Georgetown, but for law school. She graduated in 2020.

Their younger brother, Barron, is starting his freshman year at NYU.
President Barack Obama delivers remarks with his daughters Sasha and Malia on November 25, 2015.

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Malia took a gap year after graduating high school in 2016 before attending Harvard University. She graduated in 2021 with a degree in visual and environmental studies, according to E! News. Malia made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

Sasha started her college career at the University of Michigan in 2019, but she later transferred to the University of Southern California. She graduated in 2023 with a degree in sociology.

George W. Bush’s twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and Yale University, respectively.
Hillary Clinton with daughter Chelsea Clinton and Bill Clinton at Chelsea’s first day of college at Stanford University in September 1997.

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Chelsea moved across the country from the White House to attend Stanford in Palo Alto, California, during her father’s second term.

She then moved even further away to get a master’s degree in international relations at the University of Oxford in London. Chelsea also holds a master’s in public health from New York City’s Columbia University.

George W. Bush, the 43rd president, is the son of a president himself: George H. W. Bush. The younger Bush graduated from Yale.
Barbara and George Bush with their children: Dorothy, Neil, Marvin, Jeb, and George.

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All of the Bush children attended different colleges. As previously stated, George, the eldest, attended Yale like his father.

Next up was Jeb, who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Latin studies. Then came Neil, who attended Tulane University for both undergrad and grad school. The third Bush brother, Marvin, graduated from the University of Virginia.

Dorothy, or Doro, graduated from Boston College.

None of President Ronald Reagan’s children graduated from college, though all four attended for various periods of time.
Amy Carter and Jimmy Carter in 1995.

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Carter’s oldest son, Jack, earned a degree in nuclear physics from Georgia Tech and then attended the University of Georgia for law school.

His son Donnel, who goes by Jeff, graduated from George Washington University with a degree in geography.

His daughter, Amy, attended Brown University for undergrad and then moved to New Orleans to obtain her master’s in art history at Tulane.

Carter’s second-oldest child, Chip, decided to forego college to work for his family’s peanut business.

President Gerald Ford’s eldest son, Michael, graduated from Wake Forest University. Two of his other three children attended college, but they didn’t graduate.
Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower in 2012.

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Julie didn’t actually attend her graduation from Smith because of threats of protests, and she even wrote that attending the college was like “hell on Earth for me,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

Her older sister, Tricia, graduated from Finch College, a now-defunct women’s college in New York City.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter Lynda graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Her sister, Luci, attended Georgetown but was forced to drop out. She later attended St. Edward’s University.
Caroline Kennedy at the 1980 Harvard University graduation with her mother.

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Technically, she graduated from Radcliffe College, an all-female college within Harvard. Eight years later, she graduated from Columbia Law School.

Her brother, who died in 1999, graduated from Brown University before getting his law degree at New York University.

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