A nine-year-old boy is about to become the youngest ever university graduate if he completes his electrical engineering degree next month.
Laurent Simons, from Amsterdam, who has an IQ of at least 145 and a photographic memory, is close to finishing his studies at the Eindhoven University of Technology, which he started in March.
His tutor, said Laurent, who finished secondary school aged eight, was three times more intelligent than his next cleverest student.
This will smash the world record held since 1994 by Michael Kearney, who graduated from the University of Alabama aged ten.
Laurent wants to continue his studies in California because of the weather, but his father Alexander is keen to consider moving to the UK at the University of Oxford or Cambridge.
His father, a 37-year-old dentist, told the Telegraph:"Oxford and Cambridge are also in the major league and it would be very much more convenient for us."
Laurent, who enjoys science and mathematics, hopes to become a heart surgeon or an astronaut when he's older.
Sjoerd Hulshof, education director of the TUE bachelor's degree, told CNN: "Special students that have good reasons for doing so can arrange an adjusted schedule. In much the same way we help students who participate in top sport."
"Laurent is the fastest student we have ever had here. Not only is he hyper intelligent but also a very sympathetic boy."
