Princeton, NJ 08544, Top 100 Universities in USA 2014 – Rank – 26, Princeton University In New Jersey

Princeton, NJ 08544, Top 100 Universities in USA 2014 – Rank – 26, Princeton University In New Jersey


Princeton, NJ 08544, Top 100 Universities in USA 2014 – Rank – 26, Princeton University In New Jersey

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Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before theAmerican Revolution as well as the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the American colonies.[5][a] The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later where it was renamed as a University in 1896.[10] The present-dayCollege of New Jersey in nearby Ewing Township, New Jersey, is an unrelated institution. Princeton had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but has never been affiliated with any denomination[11] and today imposes no religious requirements on its students.[b]

Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanitiessocial sciencesnatural sciences, and engineering.[13]It does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, education, or business, but 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 StudyPrinceton Theological Seminary, and theWestminster Choir College of Rider University.[c] Princeton has been associated with 36 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, two Abel Prize winners, five Fields Medalists, nine Turing Award laureates, three National Humanities Medalrecipients and 201 Rhodes Scholars.

Rankings

University rankings
National
ARWU[105] 6
Forbes[106] 3
U.S. News & World Report[107] 1
Washington Monthly[108] 31
Global
ARWU[109] 7
QS[110] 9
Times[111] 6

From 2001 to 2013, Princeton University was ranked either first or second among national universities by U.S. News & World Report(USNWR), holding the top spot (sole or tied with Harvard) for 11 of those 13 years,[112] and was ranked #1 again for 2014, as per U.S. News.[113] In the 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings,[114] Princeton was ranked 6th in the world. In the 2012 QS World University Rankings,[115] it was ranked 9th overall in the world, making it 5th among US universities. Its three highest subject rankings were 7th in Arts & Humanities, 8th in Natural Sciences, and 12th in Social Sciences.[116] In THE’s 2012-2013 World University Ranking of Universities, Princeton placed 2nd above MIT and behind Caltech in Engineering and Technology.[117]Princeton was ranked 7th among 300 Best World Universities in 2011 compiled by Human Resources & Labor Review (HRLR) on Measurements of World’s Top 300 Universities Graduates’ Performance .[118]

In the “America’s Top Colleges” rankings by Forbes in 2013, Princeton University was ranked third among all national colleges and universities, after holding the number one position for a number of years.[119]

Princeton Graduate School programs are also highly ranked among universities in the United States.[120] In the 2009 U.S. News & World Report “Graduate School Rankings”, all fourteen of Princeton’s doctoral programs evaluated were ranked in their respective top 20, 7 of them in the top 5, and 4 of them in the top spot (Mathematics, Economics, History, Political Science).[121]

In Princeton Review’s rankings of “softer” aspects of students’ college experience, Princeton University was ranked first in “Students Happy with Financial Aid” and third in “Happiest Students”, behind Clemson and Brown Universities.[122]

The university’s individual academic departments have been highly ranked in their respective fields. The Department of Psychology has been ranked fifth in the nation[123] and its individual graduate programs have received high national rankings as well. The behavioral neuroscience program[124] has been ranked sixth and the social psychologyprogram[125] has been ranked seventh. The Department of History is currently ranked first in the world.[126]

Princeton University also participates in the (NAICU)’s University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN).

Princeton University has an IBM BlueGeneL supercomputer, called Orangena, which was ranked as the 89th fastest computer in the world in 2005 (LINPACK performance of 4713 compared to 12250 for other U.S. universities and 280600 for the top-ranked supercomputer, belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy).

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