Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Princeton University



World University Ranking- 7th Place
Contact Number- +1 609 258 3000


Princeton University is reknown as one of the oldest universities in United States. This university is located at Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey in United States. It was established in 1746 AD as the name College of New Jersey and later formally named as Princeton University in dated 1896 AD. It is popular all over the world for the undergraduate and graduate studies. This university believes in quality education as the yearly enrollment of this university is around 10 thousand which is very less as compared to the other universities. 

Princeton has its connection with lvy League institution for the residential arrangement of all the students studying at Princeton. Around 95 percent of the total students live on the collage residence for completing their undergraduate studies for 4 year. International students from all over the world gets enrolled here which covers 15 percent of the total students. The total enrollment of the student in the year 2016 in this university was 8,138. The total endowment in 2015 of this university was 22.72 billion US dollars. The acceptance ratio of this university is 6.5 percent in 2016. 


Princeton is famous all over the world as the research university. It has produced 41 Nobel Prize winner, 14 field medalist winner, 21 National medal of science, 10 Turing award winners, 5 National Humanities medal winner, 209 Rhodes scholars, 126 Marshall winner and so on. Princeton has around 500 acres of area where around 180 campus building are constructed. Many people visit this university from all over the world for several purpose. Two US Presidents named James Madison and Woodrow Wilson also studied in this university. 


The graduate and undergraduate courses offered in Princeton basically relates with humanities, social science, engineering and natural science. The Summarized course offered here are listed below-

1)Arts/Humanities- consists of architecture, performing art and design, history, philosophy and theology, language and literature.
2)Engineering- consists of civil, chemical, electrical & electronics, general, mechanical and aerospace engineering faculties.
3) Physical Sciences- consists of chemistry, geology, environment, mathematics, physics and astronomy 
4)Life science - It includes biological sciences
5)Computer Sciences
6)Social Sciences- It includes economics, politics, psychology and so on. 

The official website of the Princeton University is www.princeton.edu