Princeton University

Princeton University Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. To further complicate the comparison of founding dates, a Log College was operated by William and Gilbert Tennent, the Presbyterian ministers, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from 1726 until 1746 and it was once common to assert a formal connection between it and the College of New Jersey, which would justify Princeton pushing its founding date back to 1726. However, Princeton has never done so and a Princeton historian says that the facts "do not warrant" such an interpretation. Columbia University was chartered and began collegiate classes in 1754. Columbia considers itself to be the fifth institution of higher learning in the United States, based upon its charter date of 1754 and Penn's charter date of 1755.}} The institution moved to Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University.

The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering to approximately 8,500 students on its main campus spanning within the borough of Princeton. It offers postgraduate degrees through the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The university also manages the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and is home to the NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and has one of the largest university libraries in the world.

Princeton uses a residential college system and is known for its eating clubs for juniors and seniors. The university has over 500 student organizations. Princeton students embrace a wide variety of traditions from both the past and present. The university is an NCAA Division I school and competes in the Ivy League. The school's athletic team, the Princeton Tigers, has won the most titles in its conference and has sent many students and alumni to the Olympics.

As of October 2021, 75 Nobel laureates, 16 Fields Medalists and 16 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University as alumni, faculty members, or researchers. In addition, Princeton has been associated with 21 National Medal of Science awardees, 5 Abel Prize awardees, 11 National Humanities Medal recipients, 217 Rhodes Scholars, 137 Marshall Scholars, and 62 Gates Cambridge Scholars. Two U.S. presidents, twelve U.S. Supreme Court justices (three of whom serve on the court ) and numerous living industry and media tycoons and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni body. Princeton has graduated many members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight secretaries of state, three secretaries of defense and two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Published 1923
    Princeton [Princeton University Press] 1923.
    106 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
    ...Princeton University...
  2. 2
    Published 1944
    Washington, D.C. : National Defense Research Committee, Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1944.
    [4], 58 pages : charts, tables ; 28 cm.
    ...Princeton University...
  3. 3
    Princeton, N. J.
    v. ill. 27 cm.
    ...Princeton University...
  4. 4
    Published 1944
    Washington, D.C. : National Defense Research Committee, Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1944.
    1 online resource ([4], 58 pages) : charts, tables.
    ...Princeton University...
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
  5. 5
    Published 1987
    Princeton, N.J. : [Wilmington, Del.] : Princeton University Library, Scholarly Resources, Inc. [distributor] 1987 ;
    microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
    ...Princeton University. Library...
    Guide
  6. 6
    Princeton, N.J., Princeton University, Philadelphia Society.
    v.
    ...Princeton University. Philadelphia Society...
  7. 7
    Published 1948
    [Princeton, N.J.] : The Museum, 1948-
    v. ill. 24 cm.
    ...Princeton University. Art Museum...
  8. 8
    Published 1948
    [Princeton, N.J.] : The Museum, 1948-
    v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Also issued online.
    ...Princeton University. Art Museum...
  9. 9
    Published 1942
    Princeton, N.J. : The Museum, 1942-1947.
    6 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Also issued online.
    ...Princeton University. Museum of Historic Art...
  10. 10
    [Princeton, N.J., etc.] Office of Population Research, Princeton University [etc.]
    Issues for Jan. 1937-winter 1985 also available to subscribers of JSTOR via the World Wide Web; issues for spring 1986- are also freely available from the journal's web site at Princeton University.
    ...Princeton University. Office of Population Research...
  11. 11
    Published 1992
    Wilmington, Del. : Distributed by Scholarly Resources Inc., [1992?]
    ix, 59 p. ; 28 cm.
    ...Princeton University. Library...
  12. 12
    Published 1992
    Wilmington, Del. : Distributed by Scholarly Resources Inc., [1992?]
    ix, 59 p. ; 28 cm.
    ...Princeton University. Library...
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
  13. 13
    Published 1996
    Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c1996-
    v. ; 23 cm.
    ...Princeton University. Dept. of Near Eastern Studies...
  14. 14
    Published 1996
    Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c1996-
    v. ; 23 cm.
    ...Princeton University. Dept. of Near Eastern Studies...
  15. 15
    Published 1953
    New York : New York Public Library, 1953.
    microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
    ...Princeton University. Library...
  16. 16
    by Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
    Published 1971
    [Wilton, Conn., National Micro-publishing, 1971]
    1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
    ...Princeton University. Library...
  17. 17
    Published 2005
    Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Microfilm, 2005.
    112 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. + 1 reel guide (49 p. ; 28 cm.)
    ...Princeton University. Library...
    Author index and reel guide (PDF)
    Author index and reel guide (rich text)
    Guide
  18. 18
    Published 2005
    Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Microfilm, 2005.
    1 online resource (xi, 49 p.)
    ...Princeton University. Library...
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
  19. 19
    Published 2005
    Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Microfilm, 2005.
    xi, 49 p. ; 28 cm.
    ...Princeton University. Library...
  20. 20
    Chicago [etc.] University of Chicago Press [etc.]
    v. ill. 24 cm.
    Also available via the World Wide Web through JSTOR and the University of Chicago Press; subscription required for access.
    ...Princeton University. School of Public Affairs...

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