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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. 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 ...
Mid-Atlantic schools Princeton University, the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania all ranked high on the Wall Street Journal's "2025 Best Colleges in the U.S." list.
Princeton University was founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1746 in order to train ministers dedicated to their views. The college was the educational and religious capital of Scottish-Irish America.
James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution, fourth President of the United States, member of the Princeton Class of 1771, and Princeton's first graduate student.. This list of Princeton University people include notable alumni (graduates and attendees) or faculty members (professors of various ranks, researchers, and visiting lecturers or professors) affiliated with Princeton University.
The office was established in Princeton's original charter of 1746. [5] The institution's first president was Jonathan Dickinson in 1747, [6] and its 20th and current is Christopher Eisgruber, who was elected in 2013. [7][a] All of Princeton's presidents have been male besides Shirley Tilghman; [9] all have been white. [10]
Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961) [1][2] is an American academic and legal scholar who is serving as the 20th President of Princeton University, where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. [3 ...
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to the United States.
The Graduate School of Princeton University is the main graduate school of Princeton University. Founded in 1869, the school is responsible for all of Princeton's master's and doctoral degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The school offers Master of Arts (MA), Master of Science (MS), and Doctor ...