Princeton Profile

Admission to Princeton’s Graduate School presents singular opportunities in a community that offers students extraordinary academic and intellectual resources.

Of the 11,689 applicants to the Graduate School for 2011–12, 1,197 were admitted and 623 accepted the offer of admission.

While graduate candidates submit applications to the Graduate School, faculty members in the individual departments that will award the degrees review the applications and make recommendations to the dean for admission.

In 2010–11, Princeton awarded 350 Ph.D.’s and 169 final master’s degrees. The University emphasizes Ph.D. programs in the humanities, social and natural sciences, and engineering. Princeton has no business, law, or medical schools.

Graduate Admission 2011

Graduate Admission 2010–11: All Master’s and Doctoral Candidates
All percentages rounded.

GRE scores 2011–12
Average Graduate Record Examination scores vary by discipline.

Verbal (average)

Quantitative (average)

The Graduate School enrolled 2,582 degree candidates in 41 departments and programs in academic year 2010–11. Thirty-eight percent of the Graduate School’s students are female, 37 percent are citizens of other countries, and 14 percent are members of U.S. minority groups. The median time from matriculation to receiving a Ph.D. at Princeton, including all departments, is 5.4 years (for 2010–11).

Enrollment of graduate degree candidates by academic division, 2010–11