Princeton

General data:
It is the university that invests most in students. In 2008, 1.8 million dollars per student! This money comes with a draconian code of honor: the evidence does not have a teacher watching. Each student signs a contract where they agree not to paste. Broke the contract is expelled. A student expelled from Princeton is not accepted in any other university in the United States.


Location:
Princeton ,USA


Foundation:
Established as College of New Jersey in 1746

Highlighted courses:
Mathematics, physics and astronomy, economics, history and philosophy.


Highlights:

• Princeton is among the world's richest university with an endowment of just over eleven billion dollars (the fourth largest in the world), supported by continuous donations from its alumni and maintained by investment advisers
• One of the actually teacher's are John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner.
• Princeton is well known for its men's and women's crews, which have won several NCAA and Eastern Sprints titles in recent years.

Famous alumni:
James Madison; Woodrow Wilson; John F. Kennedy; Michelle Obama;

Curious facts:

• A teacher is a mathematician and Nobel laureate John Nash, the film biography A Beautiful Mind.
• An athletic competition between freshmen and sophomores that is held in the fall. The event centers on cane wrestling, where a freshman and a sophomore will grapple for control of a cane. This commemorates a historic freshman uprising against a university tradition that only sophomores and upperclassmen were permitted to carry canes, in which freshman attempted to rob sophomores of their canes in defiance of the rule.
• The midnight before Dean's Date, students from Holder Hall and elsewhere gather in the Holder courtyard and take part in a minute-long, communal primal scream to vent frustration from studying with impromptu, late night noise making.
• Nude Olympics - Annual nude and partially nude frolic in Holder Courtyard that takes place during the first snow of the winter. Started in the early 1970s, the Nude Olympics went co-ed in 1979 and gained much notoriety with the American press. For safety reasons, the administration banned the Olympics in 2000 to the chagrin of students.

Classification:
From 2001 to 2008, Princeton University was ranked first among national universities by U.S. News & World Report (USNWR).After one year at second place in 2009, Princeton returned to the number one spot in 2010, sharing that honor with Harvard University.After one year at second place in 2009, Princeton returned to the number one spot in 2010, sharing that honor with Harvard University.

Benefits for the Student:
A good marriage between fun and study make the Princeton is a good place for anyone wanting a good education, but without having to sacrifice everything else.