Where children of the past 13 US presidents attended college

Hunter attended Georgetown for his undergraduate degree and then matriculated to Yale Law, graduating in 1996.

The president’s daughter, Ashley, obtained a degree in cultural anthropology from Tulane and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania.

Biden’s other son, Beau, who died in 2015, attended the University of Pennsylvania for undergrad before continuing his studies at Syracuse University’s College of Law.

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.

Trump first teased at a campaign rally in July that his son Barron had decided where he was going to go to college, but did not specify which one.

On September 4, he confirmed to the Daily Mail that his youngest child would be attending NYU — specifically, the Stern School of Business.

“It’s a very high-quality place. He liked it. He liked the school,” Trump said.

Paparazzi spotted Barron heading to the first day of classes accompanied by his Secret Service guards.

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.

The Bush twins graduated from college during an election year — 2004 — and their parents opted to skip their graduations due to concerns about their security, according to NBC.

Barbara graduated from her father’s alma mater, Yale, with a humanities degree, while Jenna left UT Austin with an English degree.

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.

During his time at Yale, Bush was a member of the cheerleading team and a part of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

After graduating with a history degree in 1968, he attended Harvard Business School and obtained a master’s in business administration, making him the only US president with an MBA, per The New York Times.

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.

Reagan’s oldest child, Maureen, whom he shared with his first wife, Jane Wyman, attended Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, but didn’t graduate. She died in 2001.

Michael, who was adopted by Reagan and Wyman, attended Arizona State University and Los Angeles Valley College, but he didn’t graduate from either.

Patti Davis, the first child of Reagan and his second wife, Nancy, attended both Northwestern University and the University of Southern California, but he also didn’t earn a degree from either.

His youngest son, Ron, matriculated at Yale but also never graduated.

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.

The eldest Ford child, Michael, graduated from Wake Forest University in 1972. He later returned to work at the university for 36 years before retiring in 2017.

According to the Miller Center, his two younger brothers, Jack and Steven, were each interested in the outdoors. Jack attended Utah State University and worked as a park ranger during the summers, but he did not graduate.

Steven skipped college altogether and worked as a ranch hand before becoming an actor. He starred in the soap opera “The Young and the Restless.”

Ford’s daughter, Susan, attended Mount Vernon College studying photojournalism, but she left to further her career.

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.

According to the UT Austin chapter of Zeta Beta Tau, Lynda lived in their house while attending the school, complete with Secret Service agents who were able to move in.

Her younger sister, Luci, originally attended Georgetown’s nursing school, but she was forced to withdraw when she got married — Georgetown’s rules stated that all the nursing students had to be single women, The Washington Post reported.

At age 49, Luci returned to college and earned a communications degree from St. Edward’s University in 1998. She graduated with a 4.0 GPA.

“I didn’t need to do it to earn a nickel more,” she told Texas Monthly in 1998. “I did it so I could put a lifetime of feeling inferior behind me. I did it for myself.”

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.