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Princeton University
Princeton University, founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, is one of the nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution, and its Ivy League reputation is built substantially around an undergraduate-focused teaching model unusual among research universities of its academic caliber. Every Princeton undergraduate is required to complete a senior thesis, an independent research project supervised one-on-one by a faculty adviser, a graduation requirement that gives Princeton students a level of sustained independent research experience uncommon even among other elite research universities. The university's endowment per student is among the highest of any American university, funding a no-loan financial aid policy that replaces loans entirely with grants, letting Princeton recruit top applicants regardless of their family's ability to pay tuition. Princeton's relatively small undergraduate enrollment for a major research university, combined with its deep endowment resources and close faculty mentorship model, has consistently placed it at or near the top of national university rankings, and the school's Gothic-influenced campus architecture, including its iconic Nassau Hall, remains one of the most recognizable in American higher education.
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The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey, founded in 1855 as a teacher-training institution, has built a reputation as one of the top public liberal arts colleges in the country, deliberately positioning itself as a smaller, more undergraduate-teaching-focused alternative to Rutgers within New Jersey's public university system. The college's education program remains one of the strongest in the state, reflecting its founding mission, and TCNJ has expanded well beyond teacher training into strong business, engineering, and nursing programs while maintaining smaller class sizes than most public research universities offer. TCNJ's admissions selectivity has risen substantially over recent decades, and the school now regularly ranks among the top regional public universities in the Northeast, reflecting a deliberate institutional strategy of maintaining a smaller enrollment, around 7,000 students, to preserve close faculty-student engagement. The college's Ewing, New Jersey campus and its relatively affordable in-state public tuition, combined with rising academic selectivity, have made TCNJ a popular choice for New Jersey students seeking a smaller, more personalized public university experience as an alternative to Rutgers' much larger scale.
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