Princeton University is a private Ivy League research college in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Established in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth sanctioned foundation of advanced education in the Thirteen Colonies and in this manner one of the nine Colonial Colleges set up before the American Revolution. The organization moved to Newark in 1747, then to the present site nine years after the fact, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
Princeton gives undergrad and graduate guideline in the humanities, sociologies, common sciences, and designing. It offers proficient 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 biggest blessing per understudy in the United States.
The University has graduated numerous striking graduated class. It has been connected with 37 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science champs, the most Abel Prize victors and Fields Medalists of any college (four and eight, separately), nine Turing Award laureates, three National Humanities Medal beneficiaries and 204 Rhodes Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Preeminent Court Justices (three of whom right now serve on the court), various living extremely rich people and outside heads of state are all considered as a real part of Princeton's alumni.[quantify] Princeton has additionally graduated numerous conspicuous individuals from the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Bureau, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and two of the previous four Chairs of the Federal Reserve.