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4 days ago · Princeton University, coeducational, privately endowed institution of higher learning at Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. It was founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746, making it the fourth oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
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- Harvard University. Established: 1636 (chartered in 1650) Located in Massachusetts, Harvard University was originally called New College. The name was subsequently changed to Harvard College in honor of its first benefactor, John Harvard, who bequeathed half of his monetary estate and his 320-volume scholar's library to the university in his will.
- The College of William and Mary. Established: 1693. Named for the British co-monarchs who were reigning at the time and who gave the university its royal charter (the first for any university in the US), the College of William and Mary is the oldest university in the American South and was the first school of higher education in the US to install an honor code of conduct for students.
- St. John's College. Established: 1696. St John’s College (SJC) is a private liberal arts college which was originally founded as King William's School, the Maryland colony’s first ‘free’ school (free in this context meaning to free students through education).
- Yale University. Established: 1701. Next on our list of the oldest universities in the US, Yale University is currently ranked 17 in the world and was originally founded as ‘Collegiate School’.
History of Princeton University. Princeton University was founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, shortly before moving into the newly built Nassau Hall in Princeton. In 1783, for about four months Nassau Hall hosted the United States Congress, and many of the students went on to become leaders of the young republic.
Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey—the name by which it was known for 150 years—Princeton University was British North America’s fourth college. Located in Elizabeth for one year and in Newark for nine, the College of New Jersey moved to Princeton in 1756.
In 1948, after the addition of a graduate professional program, Princeton renamed SPIA to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs after Woodrow Wilson Class of 1879, the 28th president of the United States and a former president of the University.
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