University belongs to the prestigious "Ivy
League", Princeton is known for its programs and humanitarian, and exact
sciences. Princeton - alma mater of many famous politicians, businessmen and
scientists, including mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in economics, John
Nash, is far from science people know as the hero of the movie "A
Beautiful Mind."
Story:
The university was founded in 1736 and became the fourth
college of the British colonies in North America, after Harvard, Yale and the
University of Pennsylvania. Then Princeton called the College of New Jersey. In
the early years of the university colleges resembled English, with an emphasis
on classical education.
That all changed in 1768 when the university president was
John Witherspoon. The new head of the university reversed the principles of
college: in his view, the university had to train new leaders of the new
American nation. Education standards have been revised in the direction of
tightening, and parallel to the university president to attract investment in
education. Princeton began to flourish. Many of its graduates are members of
the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which discussed the creation of the US
Constitution. Under another important in the history of the United States of
documents - the Declaration of Independence - is the signature of John
Witherspoon.
Status of the University College of New Jersey bought only
in 1896 due to the expansion of programs offered. At the same time the
university was officially pereimenovam Princeton University in the name of the
city where it was located campus. After four years at Princeton it was founded
a school of postgraduate education, where they began to be awarded a master's
degree and doctorate.
In the early XX century, it was the president of Princeton
graduate of Woodrow Wilson, who later became president of the United States. He
did a lot for the development of his alma mater, in particular, has introduced
a system of seminars and kollikviumov that make traditional educational process
built on lectures, more individual in relation to each student. It is believed
that Wilson Princeton is obliged to authority that it has today.
Programs:
At Princeton, one can study the humanitarian, social,
technical and natural sciences. Along these lines, you can get a bachelor's
degree, masters or doctoral degree (PhD). Unlike its competitors, Harvard and
Yale, Princeton does not have a school-faculty of medicine, law, business and
theology. However, the prestige of the university is not affected.
Master in Princeton offers training on specialties
"Architecture", "Bioengineering", "Chemistry",
"Computer Science", "Construction Engineering",
"Electrical Engineering", "Finance", "Mechanics and
Aerospace Engineering," "Language and Culture of the Middle East
"," International Relations ".
Get a doctorate (PhD) can be one of the 42 specialties,
including, in particular, architecture, anthropology, applied mathematics,
physics, chemistry, molecular biology, computer science, ecology, economy,
philology (including Slavic studies), geology, archaeology, history, philosophy,
psychology, sociology and international relations.
Number
of Students:
Compared with many other famous and prestigious Princeton
University is a small university - it learns of 8 thousand. People. A little
more than five thousand of them are enrolled in Bachelor. Among the faculty of
Princeton today 12 Nobel Prize winners. Known and respected academic
universities usually consider their main task of training graduate students who
will shape the future of science. In Princeton, on the contrary, the priority
is to teach undergraduate students. In the Princeton one of the lowest in the
country's ratio of students to the number of teachers in the Bachelor: 6 to 1.
Famous
Graduates:
US President Woodrow Wilson and James Madison, US Secretary
of State under George HW Bush, James Baker, the politician, the Pentagon chief
Donald Rumsfeld, the chief editor of Forbes magazine, Steve Forbes, US first
lady Michelle Obama, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Google Eric
Schmidt, CEO of Hewlett- Packard Meg Whitman, the writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
and chief editor of The New Yorker magazine, David Remnick, Amazon's founder
Jeff Bezos. Princeton - alma mater writer Nina Berberova archaeologist Peter
Bogutskaya, astronaut Charles Conrad, the British mathematician who proved
Fermat's theorem, Andrew Wiles, actor Jimmy Stewart, actress Brooke Shields,
writer and owner of "Oscar" Ethan Cohen and actor David Duchovny. At
Princeton, he studied, but did not finish his studies writer F. Scott
Fitzgerald.
