Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. It provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, and offers postgraduate degrees through programs including 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 also manages the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and is home to NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.