“Princeton aspires to be a truly diverse community in which individuals of every sex, gender, identity, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, and socioeconomic status can flourish equally.” – Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity

Undergraduate and graduate students at Princeton represent a range of diverse identities and backgrounds. Each year, the Office of Communications provides demographic information on Princeton’s newly admitted undergraduate class. In addition, Princeton’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Annual Report offers demographic information on Princeton’s students, faculty, and staff and data from climate surveys assessing individuals’ experience on campus. 

As Princeton and other universities expand their efforts to diversify their student bodies, they have turned their focus to first-generation college students and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Resulting in large part from changes made in 1998 to financial aid policies, Princeton has seen a significant increase in the number of undergraduate students from low income families. Today, Princeton’s financial aid program is among the most generous in the country. You can learn more about the cost of tuition and financial aid on Princeton’s Admissions website. 

The Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity was officially established in 2021 to help all students–especially first-generation/lower-income (FLI) students and other historically excluded student populations–to thrive at Princeton University and beyond. Two signature programs, the Scholars Institute Fellows Program and the Freshman Scholars Institute, prepare low-income students for success.