Princeton University

Princeton University, founded in 1746 in New Jersey, is one of the oldest and most selective universities in the United States and a founding member of the Ivy League. Home to 8,500+ students, Princeton is known for its emphasis on undergraduate teaching, its no-loan financial aid — the first university to eliminate student loans from aid packages — and one of the largest per-student endowments in the world. Its graduates and faculty include US presidents, Supreme Court justices, Nobel laureates in economics and physics, and giants of literature and mathematics; John Nash, Albert Einstein, Toni Morrison, and Alan Turing all worked here. Princeton's McCarter Theatre, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Institute for Advanced Study (nearby but separate) have shaped 20th- and 21st-century American intellectual life.