<p>How is princeton for international students? Which is the admitted percentile for intl ?
I would like to get a degree in physics, how is the physics department?</p>
<p>from the princeton admission website:
[admission</a> statistics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]admission”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/) 10.7% of the 2014 class is international. It doesn’t say what the admit rate for international was, but it seems that in selective colleges the admit rate for internationals is less than half that of US candidates. You are thus looking at an admit rate of about 3-5%.</p>
<p>Seventeen alumni and faculty have won Nobel Prizes in Physics. Current Nobel Prize winners in physics on the faculty include: </p>
<p>Philip W. Anderson, Professor of Physics Emeritus, Nobel Prize in physics in 1977
Val L. Fitch, Professor of Physics Emeritus, Nobel Prize in physics in 1980
Joseph H. Taylor, Professor of Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993
Russell A. Hulse, research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993</p>
<p>Four Princeton faculty members have been honored by the American Physical Society with national awards for 2011. James Stone, professor of astrophysical sciences and applied and computational mathematics, will receive the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics for, in part, “his pioneering work in computational magnetohydrodynamics.” Michael Romalis, professor of physics, will receive the Francis M. Pipkin Award for, in part, “using ingenious high precision measurements … and other new fundamental spin interactions.” Alexander Polyakov, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, will receive the Lars Onsager Prize for, in part, “outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, and especially for the remarkable ideas concerning conformal field theory.” A. J. Stewart Smith, dean for research, will receive the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for "leadership in the measurement of kaon decay properties and in particular for the discovery and measurement of K+→π+vv. Princeton led the country with four faculty members receiving the award. </p>
<p>Princeton researchers benefit greatly from the Universitys longstanding ties with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, NOAAs Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) and the Institute for Advanced Study.</p>