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Principia College

private liberal arts college in Elsah, Illinois, U.S.
Organization liberal_arts_college_in_the_united_states Q7245134

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
liberal arts college in the United States, private not-for-profit educational institution[5]
Official website
www.principiacollege.edu[9]

Status and dates

Inception
1912[8]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.949°, -90.349°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois[3]
Postal code
62028-9799[6]
Street address
1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, IL, 62028-9799[20]

Industry and activity

Industry
higher education[7]

Financials

Employees
+270[10]
Total assets
+589338355[13]

Relations

Member of
American Council on Education[2]
More facts +8
Academic calendar type
semester[27]
Admission rate
+0.93[19]
Admission yield rate
+0.7[26]
Athletics program
Principia Panthers[28]
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
baccalaureate colleges: arts and sciences focus, exclusively undergraduate four-year, exclusively graduate/professional institution, arts & sciences plus professions, no graduate coexistence, four-year, full-time, selective, lower transfer-in[14][15][16][17][18]
Count of students
+340, +687[11][12]
Endowment
888.8M (373.8M–888.8M, n=3)[21][22][23]
Social media followers
+1311, +1299[24][25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Principia en Principia College ar كلية برنسيبا nl Principia-college ru Принципийский колледж zh 普林西庇亞學院 zh 普林西皮亞學院
🔖 Identifiers · 22
ROR ID
02venxm51
ISNI
0000000105798523
VIAF cluster ID
158596979
Library of Congress authority ID
no99055723
OpenAlex ID
I203563305
GRID ID
grid.431360.3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Principia-chapel-LARGE2.jpg ↗
Facebook username
PrincipiaCollege
Freebase ID
/m/04lsvw
GeoNames ID
4247605
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
148016
KISTI ID
K000207736
Show all 22 identifiers +10
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
203563305
MusicBrainz place ID
446d6653-b8d7-488b-895b-9a695f87c6c6
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987013317063205171
Ringgold ID
3203
SEVIS school ID
3724
Scilit organization ID
23171
Subreddit
Principia
Topic's main category
Category:Principia College
X (Twitter) username
princollege
Yale LUX ID
group/17e53abc-f0e2-4ba7-ac7d-d4d6fb7241a4
📚 Sources · 1
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Summary

Principia College is a liberal arts college in the United States[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . nacubo.org. Retrieved . nacubo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . nacubo.org. Retrieved . nacubo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . nacubo.org. Retrieved . nacubo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . National Center for Education Statistics. wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Count of students → {'amount': '+340'}, {'amount': '+687'}
    Scilit organization ID → 23171
    Inception → +1912-00-00T00:00:00Z
    ISNI → 0000000105798523
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