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Princeton University
is a private
university
in
Princeton, New Jersey
in the
United States
. It opened in
1746
with the name "The College of New Jersey". It was eventually named "Princeton University" in 1896. In conversation, it is simply called, "Princeton".
[1]
Princeton is one of the 8
Ivy League
colleges. It was the fourth official college in the United States.
[2]
Princeton's main library,
Firestone Library
, is one of the biggest university libraries in the world.
In 2013 Forbes put Princeton at number three in their list of "America's Top Colleges".
[3]
Princeton works with
Coursera
.
- ↑
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/ph/05/03.htm
Archived
2006-09-04 at the
Wayback Machine
"Princeton's History" ? Parent's Handbook, 2005-06
- ↑
Princeton,
Rutgers
, and
Columbia
were founded within a few years of each other. Princeton was the fourth recognized "degree granting institution" to conduct classes. Several other colleges and universities are considered colonial-era "schools", but not considered Colonial Colleges, because they were not formally chartered as colleges with degree-granting powers, until after the formation of the United States of America in 1776
- ↑
"America's Top Colleges 2018"
.
Forbes
.
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