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About Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, which is community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA, with a population of more than 14 000 inhabitants, estimated during the 2000 census. Princeton is a ‘’college town’’, and in addition to Princeton University, it also houses several other important institutions, such as the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the Siemens Corporate Research or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Princeton University was founded in 1746, being originally located in Elizabeth, NJ, afterwards being moved to Newark, in 1747, being moved to its present location in 1756 and adopting its current name in 1896. Princeton offers its students undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, and it does not generally offer professional schooling, but it does offer professional master’s degrees, mostly through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, as well as doctoral programs.
Between 2001 and 2008, Princeton University has been ranked 1st among national universities by U.S. News & World Report, in 2009, being placed 2nd, occupying the number one spot, again, in 2010, along with Harvard University. Forbes magazine has placed Princeton 1st among all national colleges and universities, in "America’s Best Colleges" rankings, the institution’s Graduate School programs being also considered among the best in the United States.
Princeton’s athletic teams are known as the Princeton Tigers, who compete, in 31 varsity sports, in NCAA Division I. They won several NCAA national championships, including 8 in men’s golf, one in men’s fencing, 3 in women’s lacrosse and 6 in men’s lacrosse. The university’s basketball team is perhaps the best-known team within the Ivy League, being nicknamed the ‘’perennial giant killer’’, which was acquired between 1967 and 1996, when Pete Carril was coaching the team, their most notable upset being in ’96, when they defeated NCAA champion UCLA in the tournament’s opening round, which was also Carril’s final collegiate victory.
Among the most notable names on the list of notable alumni from Princeton, there are: James Madison - 4th President of the United States, Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. - World War II Medal of Honor recipient killed in the Battle of Tarawa, Glen Edwards - U.S. Air Force test pilot, Loring Danforth - anthropologist at Bates College, Jeff Bezos - founder of Amazon.com, Phil Goldman - founder of WebTV, John Katzman - founder of The Princeton Review, and Eric E. Schmidt - CEO of Google, among others.
