Princeton University

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Princeton University
Shield of Princeton University
Latin: Universitas Princetoniensis[1]
Former names
College of New Jersey (1746–1896)
MottoDei Sub Numine Viget (Latin)[2]
On seal: Vet[us] Nov[um] Testamentum (Latin)
Motto in English
"Under God's Power She Flourishes"[2]
On seal: "Old Testament and New Testament"
TypePrivate research university
EstablishedOctober 22, 1746; 278 years ago (1746-10-22)
AccreditationMSCHE
Academic affiliations
Endowment$35.8 billion (2022)[3]
PresidentChristopher L. Eisgruber
ProvostJennifer Rexford
Academic staff
1,068 (fall 2021)[4]
Total staff
7,300[5]
Students8,478 (fall 2021)[4]
Undergraduates5,321 (fall 2021)[4]
Postgraduates3,157 (fall 2021)[4]
2,631 (fall 2019)[6]
Location
Princeton
,
New Jersey
,
United States

40°20′43″N 74°39′22″W / 40.34528°N 74.65611°W / 40.34528; -74.65611[7]
CampusSmall city, 600 acres (2.4 km2)[5]
NewspaperThe Daily Princetonian
ColorsBlack and orange[8]
   
NicknameTigers
Sporting affiliations
MascotThe Tiger
Websiteprinceton.edu Edit this at Wikidata
Logo of 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.[9][10][a] 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 600 acres (2.4 km2) 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.[15]

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 as of 2010) 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.

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  8. ^ "Logo & Brand Assets | Princeton University Office of Communications". Retrieved September 25, 2018.
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  10. ^ "History". Princeton University. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved July 3, 2021. ...Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States.
  11. ^ Thomas, George E. (September 2, 2002). "Building Penn's Brand". The Pennsylvania Gazette. Vol. 101. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
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