Barron Trump, the youngest child of President Trump, is taking classes at the Washington campus of New York University, less than a mile from the White House, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The president’s son, 19, recently began his sophomore year. He had enrolled last fall at N.Y.U.’s main campus in Greenwich Village and attended the Stern School of Business.
His time at the university’s Washington campus was confirmed by people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s son. One of those people has attended class with Barron Trump this semester.
That campus enrolls roughly 60 to 100 students a semester who “engage deeply with politics, policy, business, journalism and leadership through coursework and experiential learning in the nation’s capital,” according to the school’s website. Fall semester classes began at the end of August, the campus calendar says.
Tuition to attend the N.Y.U. campus in Washington runs about $33,000 a semester.
A spokesman for N.Y.U. declined to comment on Tuesday. The White House and a spokesman for Melania Trump, the first lady, did not respond to requests for comment.
In his short time at N.Y.U., Barron Trump has attracted intense interest on campus and beyond. The president of the university’s chapter of the College Republicans resigned from her post in February after questioning whether the school was the right fit for Barron Trump, suggesting in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine that he did not seem to be adapting to campus life.
“He goes to class, he goes home,” she said, prompting the organization’s national leaders to recommend that she step down.
Mrs. Trump has credited her son with playing a key role in the president’s victory in the November election, saying that he had advised his father to appear with media personalities popular with younger voters. She has also acknowledged that her son’s undergraduate experience will be unusual.
“I don’t think it’s possible for him to be a normal student,” Mrs. Trump said in an interview with “Fox & Friends” in December.
President Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, as did three of his other children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Tiffany. When Barron Trump enrolled in N.Y.U., his father said that he would be attending a “great school.”
Troy Closson is a Times education reporter focusing on K-12 schools.
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