Princeton’s New Students: By the Numbers

The Class of 2023

• Class size: 1,337
• Applicants: 32,804
• Admitted: 1,895 (5.8%) 
• Yield: 70.7% (highest since 2003)

Of those enrolled:

• Students receiving financial aid: 61.4%
• Women: 50.9%* Men: 49.1%
• U.S. minority students: 49.7%* 
• International students: 11.1%
• Children of alumni: 13.7%
• Recruited athletic prospects: 16.8%
• Pell Grant recipients: 24.6%*
• From public schools: 60.7%
• First-generation college students: 16.1%
• Number of U.S. military veterans: 1
• B.S.E. students: 28.8%* (42.6% are women) 

Transfer Admissions

• Applicants: 1,003
• Admitted: 14
• Enrolled: 9
• From community colleges: 8
• Military (reservist, veterans): 6

Entering Graduate Students

• Doctoral-degree students: 495
• Master’s-degree students: 159
• Applicants: 11,733 
• Admitted: 11%
• Yield of those admitted: 49%
• Men: 58%
• Women: 42%
• International students: 42%
• U.S. minority students: 43%*  (of domestic students) 
• Humanities and social sciences: 52%
• Sciences and engineering: 48%

* a record high
Sources: Office of Admission; School of Engineering and Applied Science; Office of the Dean of the Graduate School