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Tag: thesis

  • The History of the Princeton University Senior Thesis

    February 17, 2026 update: This blog post was originally written in April 2015. Some links may be broken and information presented here and in linked documents may be outdated. If you need assistance with senior theses, please contact us. The senior thesis has been a requirement of all undergraduate students at Princeton University since 1926.…

  • Most used Princeton theses

    Dear Mr. Mudd, I was wondering what is the most popular/most requested senior thesis in the University Archives collection? This is a perennial question and the short answer is that with the exception of celebrity alumni theses, there are few theses that are pulled with any regularity, yet the collection as a whole (totaling over…