Barron Trump, youngest son of former president Donald Trump, has begun his college studies at the Stern School of Business at New York University . He is back in the city where he grew up, and according to his mother Melania Trump he is happy to have returned .

“He’s doing great. He loves his classes and his professors ,” his mother told Fox & Friends. “He’s doing well. He’s thriving and he’s enjoying to be in New York City again.”

Unlike the typical college student, Barron is not living in the dorm at the NYU campus, and is currently residing in Trump Tower in Midtown . Melania said her son’s move back to New York , the university he is attending, and his living at home are all Barron’s choice .

“It was his decision to come here that he wants to be in New York and study in New York and live in his home , and I respect that,” she said. The freshman is reported to be commuting to the university every day .

Barron Trump’s early life in New York City

Barron Trump was born on March 20, 2006 in New York City, the only son of his mother Melania , and the fifth child of the former president. As a young boy in N.Y.C., he attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

He stayed in New York to finish out his school year after his father began his term as president in January 2017, then moved to St. Andrew’s Episcopal School i n Potomac, Maryland later that year.

After the former president’s term ended in 2020, Barron and his mother moved to Palm Beach, Florida , where he enrolled at the Oxbridge Academy , a private school. He graduated with the class of 2024 and began his studies at NYU last month .