Princeton University

body, education Chartered in 1746 as the College of New

Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college.

First located in Elizabeth, then in Newark, the College moved

to Princeton in 1756. The College was housed in Nassau Hall,

newly built on land donated by Nathaniel and Rebeckah

FitzRandolph. Nassau Hall contained the entire College for

nearly half a century. The College was officially renamed

Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the

Graduate School was established.

Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls

approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866

graduate students). The ratio of full-time students to

faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one.

Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and

Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square

feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres. The University's

James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million

square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres.

As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the

largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with

approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than

1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in

the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region.

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(1994-01-19)