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Nine-year-old boy drops degree program to pursue PhD in Electrical Engineering

Laurent Simon, 9, has dropped his degree program at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in the Netherlands to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering in the US.

It has emerged that there was a dispute between his parents and the administration over the graduation date.

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