Princeton University
Princeton, NJ1 Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-0070
609-258-3000
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later. 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, and 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 largest endowment per student in the United States.
As of October 2018, 65 Nobel laureates, 15 Fields Medalists, and 13 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University as alumni, faculty members, or researchers. In addition, Princeton has been associated with 21 National Medal of Science winners, 5 Abel Prize winners, 5 National Humanities Medal winners, 209 Rhodes Scholars, 139 Gates Cambridge Scholars, and 126 Marshall Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, twelve U.S. Supreme Court Justices (more than any other university), and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni body.
Quick Facts
Enrollment: 7853
Acceptance Rate: 5.63%
Type: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Main Website: https://www.princeton.edu/
Financial Aid: https://
Annual Costs
Total Cost In-State On-Campus: $68044
Total Cost Out-State On-Campus: $68044
Return on Investment Rating
The estimated cost for four years as an undergraduate at Princeton University is $223138.19. This includes the average cost of attendance for four years plus the interest on the average loan over a ten year repayment minus the average of grants and scholarships per student.
We then contrast this figure with average early-career and mid-career average incomes of graduates of four year programs at Princeton University. For graduates of Princeton University, we saw an average early-career income of $81800.00 and mid-career income of $161500.00. We then ranked the school's value based on how many years of mid-career income it takes to repay the educational costs.