Princeton University

Princeton University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the Academy of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth accountant academy of academy apprenticeship in the Thirteen Colonies and appropriately one of the nine Colonial Colleges accustomed afore the American Revolution. The academy confused to Newark in 1747, again to the accepted website nine years later, area it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
Princeton provides undergraduate and alum apprenticeship in the humanities, amusing sciences, accustomed sciences, and engineering. It offers able 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 Academy of Rider University. Princeton has the better award per apprentice in the United States.

History

A commemorative 3-cent brand from 1953 adulatory the bicentennial of Nassau Hall
New Light Presbyterians founded the Academy of New Jersey in 1746 in adjustment to alternation ministers. The academy was the educational and religious basic of Scots-Irish America. In 1754, advisers of the Academy of New Jersey appropriate that, in acceptance of Governor's interest, Princeton should be called as Belcher College. Gov. Jonathan Belcher replied: "What a hell of name that would be!" In 1756, the academy confused to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, called for the aristocratic House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England.

Campus

The capital campus sits on about 500 acreage (2.0 km2) in Princeton. In 2011, the capital campus was called by Travel+Leisure as one of the a lot of admirable in the United States. The James Forrestal Campus is breach amid adjacent Plainsboro and South Brunswick. The University aswell owns some acreage in West Windsor Township.:44 The campuses are anchored about one hour from both New York City and Philadelphia.