Find Your Service Focus
The University’s long-standing commitment to service and civic engagement is at the core of the Princeton experience. In the University’s new Service Focus program, you can forge a path that purposefully bridges academics and service. Through summer internships, courses, faculty mentorship and peer reflection, you can learn what it means to be “in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.” In addition, student organizations, residential colleges, eating clubs and student-initiated
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efforts all offer a myriad of ways to engage in meaningful service on campus, in our community and across the world. Service and civic engagement encompass a wide array of endeavors, including community activism, public policy work, innovation and entrepreneurship, environmental advocacy, international development, and military service, including Princeton’s Army, Air Force and Navy Reserve Officer’s Training Corps programs. Through these experiences, students often view service as central to their education and to their lives beyond Princeton.
