<p>@Kali…New Jersey’ has bad areas. But it’s not going to be “eh” for PU students because the university is located in one of the nicest areas in the state with access to NYC and Philly in an hour or less. The suburbs, boroughs, whatever, around Princeton are really nice, if expensive to shop at/in. Compared to most other top East Coast schools, Princeton has one of the best locations. The only schools with similar or better “quality of location” are Harvard and MIT.</p>