[25] In 1747, following the death of then President Jonathan Dickinson, the college moved from Elizabeth to Newark, New Jersey, as that was where presidential successor Aaron Burr Sr.'s parsonage was located.

[32] The trustees of the College of New Jersey initially suggested that Nassau Hall be named in recognition of Belcher because of his interest in the institution; the governor vetoed the request.

[35] During the battle, British soldiers briefly occupied Nassau Hall before eventually surrendering to American forces led by General George Washington.

[54][55] With the college riven by conflicting views between students, faculty, and trustees, and enrollment hitting its lowest in years, Carnahan considered closing the university.

[62] During his two decades of service, he overhauled the curriculum, oversaw an expansion of inquiry into the sciences, recruited distinguished faculty, and supervised the addition of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic style to the campus.

At the same time, the college underwent large expansion and social life was changing in reflection of the rise in eating clubs and burgeoning interest in athletics.

[74][82] However, he did fail in winning support for the permanent location of the Graduate School and the elimination of the eating clubs, which he proposed replacing with quadrangles, a precursor to the residential college system.

[95] At the same time, Princeton's reputation in physics and mathematics surged as many European scientists left for the United States due to uneasy tension caused by Nazi Germany.

[114][120] In response to these broadening protests, the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) was founded to serve as a method for greater student voice in governance.

Shapiro would continue to increase the endowment, expand academic programs, raise student diversity, and oversee the most renovations in Princeton's history.

[129] Before retiring in 2012, Tilghman expanded financial aid offerings and conducted several major construction projects like the Lewis Center for the Arts and a sixth residential college.

[134] In 2019, large-scale student activism again entered the mainstream concerning the school's implementation of federal Title IX policy relating to campus sexual assault.

[5] The James Forrestal Campus, a smaller location designed mainly as a research and instruction complex, is split between nearby Plainsboro and South Brunswick.

[163] The university also owns more than 520 acres (2.1 km2) of property in West Windsor Township,[5] and is where Princeton is planning to construct a graduate student housing complex, which will be known as "Lake Campus North".

[166][167] The McCosh presidency (1868–88) saw the construction of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles, although many of them are now gone, leaving the remaining few to appear out of place.

[169] Implemented initially by William Appleton Potter,[169] and later enforced by the university's supervising architect, Ralph Adams Cram,[170] the Collegiate Gothic style remained the standard for all new building on the Princeton campus until 1960.

[173] Several prominent architects have contributed some more recent additions, including Frank Gehry (Lewis Library),[174] I. M. Pei (Spelman Halls),[175] Demetri Porphyrios (Whitman College, a Collegiate Gothic project),[176] Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (Frist Campus Center, among several others),[177] Minoru Yamasaki (Robertson Hall),[178] and Rafael Viñoly (Carl Icahn Laboratory).

It includes works by Alexander Calder (Five Disks: One Empty), Jacob Epstein (Albert Einstein), Henry Moore (Oval with Points), Isamu Noguchi (White Sun), and Pablo Picasso (Head of a Woman).

Ralph Adams Cram, the university's supervising architect, designed the chapel, which he viewed as the crown jewel for the Collegiate Gothic motif he had championed for the campus.

[223][224] In 2021, the university agreed to divest from thermal coal and tar sand segments of the fossil fuel industry and from companies that are involved in climate disinformation after student protest.

It approves the operating and capital budgets, supervises the investment of the university's endowment, and oversees campus real estate and long-range physical planning.

The trustees also exercise prior review and approval concerning changes in major policies such as those in instructional programs and admission as well as tuition and fees and the hiring of faculty members.

[256][260] Criticism for grade deflation continued through the years, with students alleging negative effects like increased competition and lack of willingness to choose challenging classes.

"[279] Based on data for the 2020 fiscal year, the university received approximately US$250 million in sponsored research for its main campus, with 81.4% coming from the government, 12.1% from foundations, 5.5% from industry, and 1.0% from private and other.

[291] Founded in 1955 and located at Princeton's Forrestal Campus since 1968, the NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) conducts climate research and modeling.

[266] In the 1950s, Princeton used an ABC system to function as a precursory early program, where admission officers would visit feeder schools and assign A, B, or C ratings to students.

[410][411] Carril's final victory at Princeton came when the Tigers beat UCLA, the defending national champion, in the opening round of the 1996 NCAA tournament.

[419] The intramural sports program is also available on campus, which schedules competitions between residential colleges, eating clubs, independent groups, students, and faculty and staff.

[434] Actors Jimmy Stewart,[435] Wentworth Miller,[436] José Ferrer,[437] David Duchovny,[438] and Brooke Shields[439] graduated from Princeton, as did composers Edward T. Cone and Milton Babbitt.

Pulitzer prize-winning journalists Barton Gellman[449] and Lorraine Adams,[450] as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa,[451] are Princeton alumni.