Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.
Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Princeton does not offer professional schooling generally, but it does offer professional master's degrees (mostly through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) and doctoral programs.
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896. (The present-day The College of New Jersey in nearby Ewing, New Jersey, is an unrelated institution.)
Princeton was the fourth institution of higher education in the U.S. to conduct classes. Princeton’s crest states “Dei sub numine viget,” which is Latin for “Under God she flourishes.” While it once had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, it makes no spiritual demands of its students. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

*From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University

General. Founded in 1746.Regionally accredited.Degrees:1,137 bachelor’s awarded; master’s doctoral offered. ROTC: Army, Air Force.Location:50 miles from New York City,45 miles from Philadelphia. Calendar: Semester. Full-time faculty:843 total;92% have terminal degrees,18% minority,29% women. Part-time faculty:201 total;64% have terminal degrees,14% minority,40% women. Class size:74%<20,13% 20-39,4% 40-49,5% 50-99,4%>100.Special facilities: Institute for integrative genomics, center for theoretical physics, institute in neuroscience, center for creative and performing arts, center for human values, plasma physics laboratory, council of the humanities, institute for international and regional studies, observatory , center for energy and the environment.

*From College HANDBOOK
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Welcome

Welcome to Princeton University. From its modest beginnings in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1746, Princeton has become one of the world’s foremost research universities engaged in graduate education while preserving its historic commitment to undergraduate instruction. We expect our faculty to be great scholars as well as great teachers, and we offer our students a diverse yet close-knit community that gives them the widest possible scope for academic exploration and growth.
Whether one is a Nobel laureate or a newly matriculated freshman, whether one’s field is electrical engineering or comparative literature, Princeton invites its faculty and students to join a common search for answers to the fundamental and pressing questions that confront society. We do so not in the name of learning alone but, in the words of our informal motto, to serve our nation and all nations. As Princeton’s fourth president declared in 1760, “Let it be the vigorous unremitted effort of your whole life to leave the world wiser and better than you found it at your entrance.”
Today, we continue to foster this spirit by identifying talented students at home and abroad and by giving them the skills and insights they need to realize their potential and, as alumni, to make a positive difference in their communities.
Whatever the purpose of your visit, I hope that you will find the answers you are seeking and return one day soon.

Sincerely,
Shirley M. Tilghman