Best Princeton University Tours from Washington DC

The Ivy League higher learning institution located in Princeton, New Jersey and founded in 1746 is the fourth oldest college in the United States. Princeton University's 500-acre campus contains 180 buildings and 98 percent of its undergraduate students live there. It has ties with 35 Nobel Prize recipients, 17 National Medal of Science winners and three National Humanities Medal awardees. Famous Princeton graduates include United States presidents James Madison and Woodrow Wilson; U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama; U.S. Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor; writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; actors Jimmy Stewart and Brooke Shields; auto industry titan Lee Iacocca and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Famous physicist Albert Einstein gave frequent lectures at Princeton University.