Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, and renamed Princeton University in 1896. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University Department of Economics members who have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences include: Professor Ben Bernanke was a Professor of Economics prior to serving as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Professor Alan Blinder served on Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and previously served as Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Former faculty members included John Kenneth Galbraith, a leading academic on post-Keynesian economics and Uwe Reinhardt, a scholar on health care economics and Medicare. Other notably faculty members include: Princeton University Department of Economics The Princeton University Department of Economics is an academic department of Princeton University, an Ivy League