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Princeton University

Princeton University
Princeton shield.svg
Latin: Universitas Princetoniensis
Former names
College of New Jersey
(1746–1896)
Motto Dei Sub Numine Viget (Latin)
Motto in English
Under God's Power She Flourishes
Type Private
Established 1746
Endowment $22.153 billion (2016)
President Christopher L. Eisgruber
Academic staff
1,172
Administrative staff
1,103
Students 8,088
Undergraduates 5,391
Postgraduates 2,697
Location Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
40°20′35″N 74°39′25″W / 40.343°N 74.657°W / 40.343; -74.657Coordinates: 40°20′35″N 74°39′25″W / 40.343°N 74.657°W / 40.343; -74.657
Campus Suburban, 500 acres (2.0 km2)
(Princeton)
Colors Orange and Black
         
Athletics NCAA Division I
Ivy League, ECAC Hockey, EARC, EIVA
MAISA
Sports 38 varsity teams
Nickname Tigers
Affiliations AAU
URA
NAICU
Website princeton.edu
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University rankings
National
ARWU 5
Forbes 3
U.S. News & World Report 1
Washington Monthly 15
Global
ARWU 6
QS 11
Times 7
U.S. News & World Report 8

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 was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies and thus one of the nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.

Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson 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 has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States.


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