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.

Princeton University

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. The university, unlike most American universities that were founded at the same time, did not have an official religious affiliation. At one time, it had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but today it is nonsectarian and 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.

About Princeton University

Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations. Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. Princeton is an independent, coeducational, nondenominational institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.

As a world-renowned research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.

Today, more than 1,100 faculty members instruct approximately 5,000 undergraduate students and 2,500 graduate students. The University’s generous financial aid program ensures that talented students from all economic backgrounds can afford a Princeton education.

Princeton University Rankings in 2010

• TOP CHEMISTRY COLLEGE RANKING IN 2010
• TOP 100 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKING IN 2010
• TOP 15 COMPUTER ENGINEERING COLLEGES RANKING
• BEST UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY RANKING
• TOP 100 PRIVATE COLLEGES RANKING
• TOP 100 COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES
• WORLD’S BEST UNIVERSITY RANKINGS – TOP 400 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD
• IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES / SCHOOLS RANKING
• TOP 50 ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS IN 2010
• TOP RANKING COLLEGE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
• BEST UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PROGRAM RANKING IN U.S.
• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS

Princeton University Rankings in 2011

• TOP 100 GRADUATE COMPUTER ENGINEERING SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011-2012
• 2011-2012 TOP 200 COLLEGES IN UNITED STATES
• QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2011
• FORBES AMERICAN’S BEST COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
•  TOP ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS RANKING IN 2011-2012
•  WORLD’S TOP 50 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011

Princeton University Rankings in 2012

•  2011-2012 BEST MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS RANKING
• TOP 100 COMPUTER ENGINEERING COLLEGE RANKING IN 2011-2012

Schools and Colleges of Princeton University

Undergraduates fulfill general education requirements, choose among a wide variety of elective courses, and pursue departmental concentrations and interdisciplinary certificate programs. Required independent work is a hallmark of undergraduate education at Princeton. Students graduate with either the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) or the Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.).

Website: http://www.princeton.edu

Admission:  http://www.princeton.edu/main/admission-aid/

Princeton University News

• Georgian president details nation's transformation
  Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili presented his nation's transformation as a test case for democracy in the post-Soviet era during an address Thursday, May 17, at Princeton University."We want to create a modern society," Saakashvili said to ...

• University prepares for local hospital relocation
  Princeton University students and employees may continue to access emergency and other medical services when the local hospital opens its new facility on May 22. The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMCPP) will move to a state-of-the-art building located near campus on Route 1 in Plainsboro, N.J.

• Four faculty members honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students
  Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony Monday, June 4, on Cannon Green.

• Honoring past computer science great, Schmidt looks forward
  Computer science is among the most forward-looking of disciplines, and in an address at Princeton University on Thursday evening, May 10, Eric Schmidt paid tribute to Alan Turing, one of the giants of the field, by looking ahead to an almost unimaginable future.

• Graduate School applications reach record high
  Princeton University's Graduate School offered admission to 1,226 of the record 12,077 applicants who applied for the 2012-13 academic year, with the school's global reputation and strong financial aid program contributing to a continued increase in applications, particularly among international students.

• Princeton alumnus and trustee Katzenbach, leading figure in U.S. civil rights history, dies
  Nicholas Katzenbach, a Princeton University alumnus and trustee emeritus who was a towering figure in U.S. civil rights history, died of natural causes Tuesday, May 8, at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 90.

• Schmidt Fund awards support transformative technologies
  A nitrogen sensor that can monitor environmental change, a "no-frills" quantum computer and a laboratory small enough to fit inside a single cell are the three technologies selected to receive support this year at Princeton University from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.

• Oates and Pagels receive Behrman Award
  Princeton professors Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Pagels have received the University's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.

• Cancer collaboration could someday help dogs and their humans
  In pursuing cancer treatment for her dog, Olga Troyanskaya, a computational biologist at Princeton University, started a research collaboration with canine oncologist Karin Sorenmoto with the potential to learn more about cancer, possibly leading to new treatments for dogs and humans as well.

• New Global Collaborative Networks projects selected
  Princeton University's Council for International Teaching and Research has selected four faculty proposals to receive funding for the creation of global network initiatives.