Located in Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University is an Ivy League research university. It is one of the fourth institutions of higher education. The institution first moved to Newark, New Jersey and then to the current campus nine years later. Princeton University officially became a university in 1896. The same year F Scott Fitzgerald was born. In the beginning it was founded as college of New Jersey. It was also dubbed as Log College. The school went through various president and numerous changes over time.