Princeton University

Princeton University
Latin: Universitas Princetoniensis
Motto	Dei sub numine viget (Latin)
Motto in English	Under God's power she flourishes[1]
Established	1746
Type	Private
Endowment	US$12.6 billion[2]
President	Shirley M. Tilghman
Faculty	1,172
Staff	1,103
Students	7,567
Undergraduates	5,113[3]
Postgraduates	2,479
Location	Borough of Princeton, Princeton Township, Plainsboro, West Windsor, New Jersey, USA
Campus	Suburban, 600 acres (2.4 km2) (Princeton Borough and Township)
Former names	College of New Jersey (1746–1896)
Colors	Orange and black
Nickname	Tigers
Athletics	38 varsity teams Ivy League NCAA Division I
Affiliations	MAISA; AAU
Website	princeton.edu

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.^[4] 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.^[5] (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.^[6][7] 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.^[8][9] The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.^[10]

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Campus 2.1 Cannon Green 2.2 Buildings 2.2.1 Nassau Hall 2.2.2 Residential Colleges 2.2.2.1 List of residential colleges 2.2.3 McCarter Theatre 2.2.4 Art Museum 2.2.5 University Chapel 2.3 Sustainability 3 Organization 4 Academics 4.1 Undergraduate 4.2 Graduate 4.3 Libraries 4.4 Admissions and financial aid 4.5 Rankings 4.6 Grade Deflation Policy 5 Student life and culture 5.1 Traditions 6 Athletics 6.1 Football 7 Songs 8 "Old Nassau" 9 Notable alumni and faculty 10 In fiction 10.1 Literature 10.2 Film 10.3 Television 11 See also 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External links

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