Belgian Crown Princess Elisabeth will start studies at Harvard University (Boston, United States) this summer having recently passed the entrance tests for a two-year master's degree in Public Policy.
The master's degree will complement Elisabeth's university education after she completes her bachelor's degree in History & Politics at Lincoln College, Oxford in the United Kingdom this semester.
The Crown Princess still has exams in May and June before her graduation ceremony during the summer. Thereafter, she will go to another of the most prestigious universities in the world at the end of August.
Not the first
"She recently passed the entrance tests," the palace said. "The Princess was also selected for an 'Honorary Award' from the Fullbright Program, the US Department of State's international educational exchange programme."
She is not the only member of the Royal Family to move to the United States: her cousin Joachim (son of Astrid and Lorenz) also obtained his business administration degree from Harvard. Her father, King Philippe, studied political science at Stanford, another prestigious university in the US.
Currently, there are just over 25,000 students and 19,000 staff and faculty spread across several campuses, primarily located in Massachusetts.
Crown Princess Elisabeth will study at the Kennedy School campus. The Kennedy School's mission is to "improve public policy and leadership so that people can live in safer, freer, more just, and more prosperous societies."
