Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 inElizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies^] and thus one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution. The institution moved toNewark 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 largestendowment per student in the United States.

The University has graduated many notable alumni. It has been associated with 41 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Sciencewinners, the most Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university (four and eight, respectively), ten Turing Awardlaureates, five National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, and 126 Marshall Scholars. 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. It is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the world.