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3 hours ago · princeton .edu. Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
3 hours ago · Fordham was founded as St. John's College in 1841 by the Irish-born coadjutor bishop (later archbishop) of the Diocese of New York, John Hughes. [22] This makes it the third-oldest university in the state of New York, [10] and the first Catholic institution of higher education in the northeastern United States. [9]
