Princeton University Campus Map

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This map shows walking trails, biking trails, bus stops, train stations, parking lots, information points, cafes, restaurants, shops, museums, theaters, buildings, halls, fields, and buildings index on Campus of Princeton University.

About Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, it 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 its current location in Princeton in 1756, and was officially 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 Princeton 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 does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, or business. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".

The main campus sits on about 600 acres in Princeton. The university also owns the James Forrestal Campus and additional facilities, bringing total holdings to over 2,000 acres. Notable buildings include Nassau Hall, completed in 1756, which briefly served as the capitol of the United States in 1783 when the Continental Congress met there.

Princeton's endowment is one of the largest of any academic institution in the world. The university operates on a residential college system and maintains an undergraduate honor code established in 1893.

As of 2024, 75 Nobel laureates, 16 Fields Medalists, and 16 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton as alumni, faculty, or researchers. Other affiliates include four U.S. Presidents (James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy briefly, and others depending on classification), 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and numerous living billionaires. The Institute for Advanced Study, while administratively separate, has been closely linked to Princeton since its founding in 1930 and once hosted Albert Einstein.

The university's athletic teams, known as the Princeton Tigers, compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Ivy League. School colors are orange and black.