Suri Cruise is now a college freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, a private university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The 18-year-old student moved into the dorms on Sunday with the help of her mother Katie Holmes and classes begin on August 26, according to the school’s website.
But Suri will not have to write a check for tuition. And neither will her mother Holmes.
Instead Suri’s father Tom Cruise will be forking over the money to put her through college. That’s because it was decided in 2012 when he divorced Katie after six years of marriage that he should cover all of her schooling.
The divorce documents revealed Tom pays Suri’s expenses, including ‘medical, dental, insurance, education, college and other extracurricular costs.’
‘Tom is indeed paying for Suri’s tuition, he has always paid for her schooling and would never stop as he is a stand-up guy,’ a friend of Tom’s told DailyMail.com. The annual tuition at CMU is $65K.
‘He has never hesitated paying his daughter’s child support and expenses. He does not go back on his word. He is fulfilling his obligation.’
But he is likely no longer paying Katie $38,000-a year in child support as Suri is now 18 and no longer a child.
It is odd to think that Tom is paying Suri’s way considering they have not been photographed together in over a decade.
Their last snapshot together in public was in April 2013.
Suri hinted that she is not on good terms with her father as she changed her last name from Cruise to Noelle. Noelle is Katie’s middle name.
Meanwhile, DailyMail.com has reported that Suri is looking forward to her college experience and is sharing a dorm room with another female student in an all-female dorm hall.
‘Suri wants the full college experience so she is giving the dorm rooms a try and she will have a roommate,’ an insider told DailyMail.com. ‘She is excited for a new chapter in her life.’
Instead of mom Homes’ three-bedroom high-rise luxury apartment in NYC, the teenager will be in a bare-bones dorm room.
She is believed to be house in Scobell House which has a maximum of 88 students and is all female.
One of the highlights of Carnegie Mellon? The campus houses several restaurants that offer cappuccinos, croissants, pasta and smoothies. And there is a state-of-the-art wellness center.
The rooms can be for one person, two or three, depending on need and price.
One of the rooms has two bunk beds which means as many as four students can be crammed in the space.
Most of the dorm rooms offer furniture: there is a single bed with space underneath for storage, a five level chest of drawers, a desk with three drawers and a chair.
There are plenty of amenities at the complex like a TV lounge, a study lounge, a recreational area, laundry facilities, and a kitchen.
Scobell is in the WHeSco community, which includes the houses Henderson and Welch. ‘WHeSco is proximate to many academic buildings and dining options in Resnik. Each building has a central area on the ground floor where students have access to lounges, laundry, and a kitchen,’ the website shared.
There is plenty of food to purchase on campus so Suri won’t go hungry as she crams for finals.
There are restaurants like Au Bon Pain café bakery at Cohon Center where Cruise can pick up chocolate croissants and sodas.
‘Each signature recipe is uniquely crafted. You can enjoy delicious hot or iced coffee and teas, espresso drinks, a variety of cold beverages, soup, a customized made-to-order breakfast or lunch sandwich or salad, or you can grab a pre-made salad, sandwich, wrap, yogurt parfait, fresh fruit or snack,’ the website says.
There is also a Ciao Bella restaurant for tasty pasta dishes like Fettucine Alfredo; it is also located at Cohon Center.
‘Ciao Bella takes a globally inspired approach to pasta. Discover a menu of traditional dishes and customizable pasta bowls featuring international flavors. Find penne and tortellini on the menu every day!?’ the website stated.
The Edge Cafe and Market at Resnik House is where Suri can get bagels and cream cheese as well as pizza.
Suri has a break coming up soon: Labor Day falls on September 2, and she will have that day off.
September 27 and 28 is Family weekend, and Katie is allowed to visit then.
Tom, whom Suri is estranged from, won’t be there.
It has been hinted by Katie that Suri may be studying acting and dance at Carnegie Mellon. Holmes told Town & Country magazine that after college, her daughter wants to enter showbiz.
Both Katie and Suri’s father Tom have been in the industry since their early 20s.
The magazine claimed that Suri ‘is said to be interested in pursuing a career in fashion or acting.’ That does not sound off base Suri starred in a high school production of The Addams Family.
And Katie has already put Suri to work on two of her films.
Suri contributed vocals to songs in two of Holmes’ films – the 2023 drama Rare Objects and 2022 romantic drama Alone Together.
‘I’m proud of my daughter,’ Holmes told Town & Country of her daughter.
‘Of course, I will miss the close proximity, but I’m really proud of her and I’m happy.’
Holmes, speaking with Glamour in April 2023, said that she has sought to encourage Suri’s performing on her projects.
‘I hope she always does something on my films,’ Holmes said. ‘I always ask her.’
Holmes said that ‘both of those experiences came out of the same sense of what I love about our industry, which is, you have these projects and you become a family with people.’
Holmes said she strived to create a ‘safe, beautiful, creative space’ for Suri to hone her craft as a performer.
‘So it comes out of love for me to include someone who I love dearly,’ Holmes said.
‘It was very meaningful to me to have her there, because she’s my heart.’
Also Carnegie Mellon has College of Fine Arts department which Holly Hunter and Ted Danson have graduate from.
Meanwhile, Tom abseiled down into the State de France during the closing ceremony at the Paris Olympics. The Mission: Impossible actor performed one of his trademark stunts at Sunday’s ceremony.
He slid 115-feet on a rope from the venue’s roof. Then he rode his motorcycle onto a plane, parachuted out and climbed the Hollywood sign.
It was part of the handover to Los Angeles for the 2028 Games.
Tom was seen greeting athletes present at the ceremony before landing and taking the Olympic flag away on a motorbike.
A pre-recorded segment then showed the Top Gun star carrying the flag back to the US on a plane before he draped it over the Hollywood sign.
A report from TMZ earlier this month revealed that the Los Angeles element of the stunt was filmed in March and insiders admitted they had expected the Hollywood star to be spotted and the information to be leaked beforehand.
Cruise is said to have been the driving force behind the spectacle and approached the International Olympic Committee (IOC) himself about doing a series of stunts to bring the Paris and Los Angeles Games together.