Education
Prince Friso received his primary education at the Nieuwe Baarnse School in Baarn and started his secondary education at the Baarns Lyceum.
In 1981, the royal family moved to The Hague. The Prince continued his secondary education at the Eerste Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum in The Hague and gained his VWO (pre-university education) certificate in 1986.
From 1986 to 1988, the Prince studied mechanical engineering at the College of Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
He studied aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology from 1988 to 1994. In 1994, he received work experience training with the aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas in California. In that same year, the Prince graduated in aerospace engineering management. His dissertation was on lead time reduction in the production of aircraft.
From 1990 to 1995, the Prince also studied economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, graduating on 25 September 1995, with a dissertation entitled “The applicability and application of concurrent engineering in commercial aircraft development”.
In 1997, he obtained an MBA at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) at Fontainebleau in France.