Princeton University

Princeton University
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Princeton University Princeton shield.svg
Seal of Princeton University
Latin: Universitas Princetoniensis
Former names
    College of New Jersey (1746–1896)
Motto     Dei sub nūmine viget (Latin)
Motto in English
    Under God's Power She Flourishes
Established     1746
Type     Private
Endowment     $21.0 billion
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, United States
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
Princeton logo.svg

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[6][a] 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.

The University has graduated many notable alumni. It has been associated with 37 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, the most Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university (three and eight, respectively), nine Turing Award laureates, three National Humanities Medal recipients and 204 Rhodes Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices (three of whom currently serve on the court), numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni.[quantify] Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve.