The Economic Times

Meet Michael Kearney, the 10-year-old American who became the worlds youngest university graduate

Michael Kearney made academic history when he earned a bachelors degree in anthropology from the University of South Alabama at 10 years and 4 months old in June 1994. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed him as the youngest university graduate in history. Kearney had completed high school at six and continued his education rapidly, earning a masters degree in chemistry from Middle Tennessee State University at 14 and another masters in computer science from Vanderbilt University at 18. He later earned a PhD in chemistry at 22. His record has been challenged but remains unambiguously unbroken.