Academic Advising
Your academic adviser is a faculty member who understands the curriculum at Princeton. If you are a B.S.E. candidate, the associate dean for undergraduate affairs in the engineering school selects a member of the engineering school’s faculty to be your academic adviser. Your particular interests within the engineering school will be considered in assigning an adviser, but all the engineering advisers are fully familiar with University and B.S.E. requirements.
If you are an A.B. candidate, your director of studies selects your academic adviser, attempting to match your academic interests with the scholarly interests of one of the academic advisers in your residential college. In some cases, your adviser may represent a field that is not especially close to the field in which you are most interested, but you can be assured that he or she is aware of both University requirements and significant educational issues. Moreover, if your adviser does not know the answer to one of your questions, he or she will know where to find it. During orientation in September, you will have an appointment with your academic adviser to discuss your plans for the fall before your register online for classes.