Buildings
With over 7 million volumes spread out over 70 miles of shelves, this library is one of the largest open-stack libraries in the world.
What is Firestone?
Princeton was founded in this year.
What is 1746?
This center is Princeton's primary academic help center, offering one-on-one tutoring as well as group study and various academic workshops.
What is the McGraw Center?
The percentage of students that live on campus all 4 years.
What is 96%?
The hallmark of Princeton's undergraduate experience, it culminates in the Senior thesis.
What is independent work?
This residential college is currently being built to replace the first-ever res college at Princeton.
What is Hobson College?
When did the University move to Princeton? (Hint: this is also the year that Nassau Hall was completed)
What is 1756?
This program offers a gap year before freshman year to allow students to pursue meaningful work in small cohorts across the globe.
What is the Novogratz Bridge Year Program?
What is ~60%?
The one major on campus that is NOT required to complete a senior thesis.
What is COS BSE?
The clapper from this building's bell was removed after students repeatedly attempted to climb the building to delay the start of classes.
What is Nassau Hall?
One of the most important years for Princeton, this year saw the establishment of its first graduate school and the university's name change from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University.
What is 1896?
This center supports first-generation, low-income students as well as non-traditional students. It is also located right next door to this room!
What is the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity (EBCAO)?
The percentage of students who graduate debt-free from Princeton (extra 100 points if you also include the average financial aid grant).
Princeton's student-to-faculty ratio, the lowest in the Ivy League.
What is 5:1?
This new building houses the geosciences department and the High Meadows Environmental Institute.
What is Briger Hall?
The year that women were first admitted to the University.
What is 1969?
This office houses the university's 10 chaplaincies and over 30 affiliated student groups.
What is the Office of Religious Life?
What is 30% BSE, 70% AB?
The three types of class at Princeton.
What are lecture, seminar, and "classroom style"?
This building was Princeton's celebrated physics laboratory until 2000, when it was converted into Princeton's main student center.
What is Palmer Hall?
This was the year that University President Woodrow Wilson created and implemented the precept system.
What is 1905
This center offers internships and orientation programming in support of the university's informal motto. (Bonus 100 points if you can identify the two people responsible for the University's informal motto!)
Princeton University's undergraduate focus mean's the school has significantly more undergrads than graduates. The undergraduate population and the graduate population is:
What is 5,800 and 3,300?
How many distribution requirements must AB students take, and how many must BSE take? How many different areas are there?
What is 10 and 7, across 9 total distribution areas?