Princeton University is a four-year, coeducational, private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. It was established in 1746 and currently has 5,203 undergraduate students with an additional 2,610 graduate students.
Of those who were immediately employed, 46% of the class of 2006 took jobs on Wall Street and four years later, only 36% did. In 1783, the Continental Congress met at Nassau Hall in Princeton, which served as the capital of the United States for approximately five months. Princeton University competes in Division I-AA athletics, and the school mascot is the Tiger. The current president of the university is Shirley M. Tilghman.Charles “Pete” Conrad ‘53 was the third person to walk on the moon and planted a Princeton Tiger flag there on November 19, 1969. Forbes editor-in-chief Steve Forbes graduated from Princeton in 1970.
