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Princeton University

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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Founded Year
1746 1
Country
United States 1
City
Princeton 1
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Private non-profit 1
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University 1
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Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

Source Brown University (Wikipedia)

Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

Source Dartmouth College (Wikipedia)
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1. Princeton University (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey
  • Infobox, Established
    October 22, 1746
  • Infobox, Location
    Princeton, New Jersey, United States
  • Infobox, Location (city)
    Princeton, New Jersey, United States
  • Infobox, Type
    Private research university
  • Description, institution-kind classification
    Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey.
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Dartmouth College (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Dartmouth College, Lead section
Quote, Associated With: Dartmouth College, Lead section
Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock and Samson Occom to train Native American Christian missionaries, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
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Brown University (Wikipedia)
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