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all its graduate students to campus” in the fall (autumn) SCHOLASTIC OPTIONS AT PRINCETON
with the option to study remotely.
“Over the past two months, my colleagues and I have The university offers a wide range of undergrad and post-
been studying the pandemic and identifying measures we graduate study programmes. They include:
can take to accommodate students on campus. Covid-19 is Humanities. Architecture, art and archaeology, English, en-
still a very new disease, and much remains unknown about trepreneurship, gender and sexuality studies, history, hu-
it. Several points have, however, become clear. Based on the manistic studies, journalism, media and modernity, music,
information now available to us, we believe Princeton will philosophy, religion, teacher preparation, theater, transla-
be able to offer all of our undergraduate students at least tion and intercultural communication, visual arts, etc.
one semester of on-campus education this academic year, Engineering. Applications of computing, architecture and
but we will need to do much of our teaching online and engineering, chemical and biological engineering, civil and
remotely,” says Christopher L. Eisgruber, president of environmental engineering, computational and information
the university. science, computer science, electrical engineering, robotics
Princeton. A municipality (estimated pop. 31,187) of New and intelligent systems, sustainable energy, etc.
Jersey City, Princeton is the outcome of a 2013 amalgama- Natural Science. Applied and computational mathematics,
tion of the now-defunct Borough of Princeton with Princ- astrophysical sciences, atmospheric and oceanic scienc-
eton Township. Almost equidistant from the mega-metros es, biophysics, chemistry, cognitive science, mathematics,
of New York City and Philadelphia, this woody cosmopoli- molecular biology, neuroscience, physics, plants and life,
tan town offers large well-preserved open spaces and com- plasma physics, psychology, statistics and machine learn-
munity recreation spaces including bars, restaurants, and ing, sustainable energy, etc.
shopping areas. Princeton also hosts the McCarter Theatre Social Sciences. Anthropology, cognitive science, economics,
Center, winner of a Tony Award for the best regional the- entrepreneurship, ethnographic studies, European cultural
atre in the US, and the 200-year-old Morven Museum and studies, history, psychology, public policy, social policy,
Garden, which houses unique fine and decorative arts col- sociology, south Asian studies, urban policy and planning,
lections. urban studies, values and public life, etc.
Princeton has a continental climate. Summers are hot and
humid with temperatures soaring to 38°C. Winters are cold Tuition & other fees (annual)
and windy with temperature dipping to -18°C and copious Tuition $53,890 eligibility criterion is suc-
snowfall. Housing 10,480 cessful completion of class
Campus facilities. The university’s picturesque campus spread Board 7,340 XII/Plus Two and excellent
over 600 acres is an ecletic mix of Victorian Gothic, Roman- Miscellaneous 3,500 ACT/SAT scores. However,
esque Revival and modern architecture, and offers state-of- Total 75,210 due to the outbreak of the
the-art academic, laboratory, recreational, sports and resi- $= Rs.74.72 coronavirus pandemic,
dential facilities. The oldest building on campus is Nassau Princeton has made the
Hall (1756), which houses the university’s administrative submission of SAT or ACT scores optional this year. But
offices. Other campus landmarks include the University international students need to submit proof of English lan-
Chapel, Art Museum and McCarter Theatre. At the southern guage proficiency — high IELTS or TOEFL test scores. For
end of the campus is Lake Carnegie named after Scottish- the academic year 2021-22, the admission deadline is Janu-
American industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The ary 1, 2021.
university’s Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, divided For further details, contact the admission office: P.O. Box
into nine specialised branches with three storage facilities, 430, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542-0430; Ph:
houses 10 million printed volumes, 5 million manuscripts, 609-258-3060; e-mail: uaoffice@princeton.edu; website:
2 million non-print items and extensive collections of digital www.admission.princeton.edu
text, data, images, audio, video and online resources. Accommodation. Nearly all undergraduates and 70 percent
Inevitably, Princeton also offers excellent sports facilities of graduate students live on campus. The university’s six
including an ice hockey rink, eight-lane Olympic track and residential colleges house undergrad students — three ac-
sports complex, tennis courts, and the 27,800-seat Princeton commodate only first-year students and sophomores (second
Stadium for softball, baseball, field hockey, lacrosse, swim- year) while the remaining three are open to all. These col-
ming and diving, rugby and supplemented with 50 acres of leges offer dining halls, common rooms, laundry facilities,
fields. The Jadwin gymnasium offers facilities for indoor academic spaces, and arts and entertainment resources.
sports such as basketball and athletics while the Dillon Gym- Degree programmes. The university’s 36 academic depart-
nasium has a swimming pool and dance studio. ments offer 55 interdisciplinary undergraduate programmes,
Admission. Princeton is one of America’s most selective uni- 18 Master’s and 33 interdisciplinary/interdepartmental doc-
versities with an admission acceptance rate of 5 percent. For toral programmes (see box).
admission into undergraduate programmes, the minimum AKHILA DAMODARAN

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