‘Fox & Friends’ Lawrence Jones Has Gone Back to College – Here’s Why

Fox News star Lawrence Jones wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to return to school to study law because of his television duties, including cohosting Fox & Friends weekday mornings from 6 am.

However, after encouragement from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, Jones put his doubts aside and enrolled in Syracuse University’s online law school in August. “[Scott’s] like, ‘You can make it work. You really can,'” Jones told People in a recent interview.

Jones, who was named a permanent cohost of Fox & Friends in 2023, said he reached out to Syracuse University to make sure the online law program was “real” and as rigorous as in-person law degrees.

“When I tell my friends about this, they think this is like the Kim Kardashian program. It’s not,” Jones told the outlet, referring to Kardashian’s enrollment in the ⁠Law Office Study Program (LOSP), an alternative path to becoming a lawyer without attending a traditional law school. “It’s real law school. It has the same rigor.”

The 33-year-old TV host said he’d been interested in the law from a young age, first wanting to be a cop and then later studying criminal justice as an undergrad at the University of North Texas.

“As I got older, my original plan was to go to law school. And then I kind of fell into TV my junior year in college and the rest is history,” he shared, noting how most of his time is now spent between New York, where he films Fox & Friends, and Dallas, where his family lives.

Jones has also been dealing with a detached retina over the past few years, including three different surgeries. “I’ve been open about my eye surgery due to a retinal tear. However, I later discovered that this was caused by a childhood sports injury. Regrettably, I’ve sustained another retina detachment, which is common after the initial tear,” he shared on X back in August after taking a brief absence from work.

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“All of that was happening while going through the law school process — applying, going through all those tests,” he told People. “So when I need my eyes the most … I just had to push through it.”

Jones said it was important for him to go to law school because he’d always promised his parents, specifically his father, that he would go back to school. “And I just never found a program from my perspective that [would allow me to] still do school and do TV,” he added.

Before enrolling, Jones said he asked the dean for the “craziest story of someone that did this program and is able to make it work.” The dean mentioned an emergency room physician who completed the program at the height of COVID.

“So that’s my bar: if this emergency room physician during COVID, when the hospitals are packed, could do it, then I can pull this off,” Jones stated.