Glen Powell’s Going Back to School to Make Parents Proud, Finish What He Started

Glen Powell‘s crushing it in Hollywood — but he’s got other priorities these days that have nothing to do with movies … like trading a bit of the spotlight to hit the books.

We got the A-list actor outside NYC’s ABC Studio Thursday — and we asked him about his recently-revealed plans to enroll at the University of Texas at Austin … where he’ll be gunning for a degree in Radio, Television and Film.

Glen tells us he’s doing this to finish what he started — sounds like he hit the pause button on school to pursue a career in front of the camera — but he’s got other people to please too.

GP says he’s gotta make his parents proud … so he has them in mind with this pivot back to education. The good news — he ain’t gonna be there very long … just a semester, he says, and he’ll be doing his classes remotely. So yeah, nobody to mob him on campus it seems.

Glen has previously said he’ll be killing two birds with one stone here — attending classes while also filming his next movie, “The Running Man.” He’ll be a busy bee, to say the least.