Princeton’s growing community of transfer students brings a wealth of experiences and perspectives to campus. Many come from first-generation, lower-income, community college and U.S. military veteran backgrounds.

Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering to approximately 8,500 students on its main campus spanning 600 acres (2.4 km 2) within the borough of Princeton.

Princeton is one of the top universities in the world. Our undergraduate and graduate programs emphasize learning, creativity, innovation and collaboration.

Princeton is a vibrant community that seeks to attract and support students of all backgrounds and interests. We are a leader in ensuring admitted students can afford college, offering one of the strongest need-based financial aid programs in the country.

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Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation's service and in the service of all nations.

Through teaching and research, we educate people who will contribute to society and develop knowledge that will make a difference in the world.

Princeton University advances learning through scholarship, research, and teaching of unsurpassed quality, with an emphasis on undergraduate and doctoral education that is distinctive among the world’s great universities, and with a pervasive …

Students apply to Princeton University, not to individual departments, programs or schools. Once enrolled, students may pursue either the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) or the Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.).

Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton for the past academic year (2023–24) enrolled 8,973 students: 5,598 undergraduates, 3,251 graduate students, and 124 special students. These numbers include degree-seeking, non-degree seeking and visiting students.