Sign Up for In-Person Engineering Tours
For Prospective Undergraduate Students
Our engineering tours are for prospective students –11th and 12th graders –visiting campus individually with their parents, who plan to apply to Princeton to study engineering within the next year or two. As a teaching and research institution, we are unable to accommodate visiting groups within our building. Our corridors are narrow and are used by our students, staff, and faculty engaged in engineering study and research. Regardless of the situation, large groups of visitors will be turned away at the door. No exceptions. If you wish to take a tour of the Princeton University campus, please see the Orange Key tour website and see information for arranging group tours.
On Campus
Guided Engineering Tour
Please join us for an in-person guided tour of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. On weekdays, while classes are in-session, members of the Tau Beta engineering honor society, who are juniors and seniors who are able to describe their experiences as engineering students at Princeton while providing an overview of the academic programs and our building interiors. Guides will begin the tour promptly at 11:30 a.m. from the SEAS Undergraduate Affairs Office, room C209 in the Engineering Quadrangle (E-Quad), which is in the PROSPECT AVENUE neighborhood on the campus map. Tours last 45 minutes to an hour. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer guided tours on weekends, during Reading Period, exams, or breaks. Advanced registration is required.
Register Now
Instructions: Select the day you plan to visit us. Underneath the calendar, click on the RSVP link, and complete the registration form. You will receive a confirmation email when you register. This email includes important tour information, including a link to cancel or change your reservation.
To help ensure you receive a confirmation, please add engineering-tours@princeton.edu to your email contacts. Make sure to check your spam folder if you did not receive it. Please email bseprogram@princeton.edu if you need assistance.
Self-led Engineering Tour
For visitors who are unable to fit our 11:30 a.m. guided tour into their busy Princeton visit or are unable to come when classes are in-session, we offer our self-guided tour, which covers the same territory as the guided tour just without the live student guide. No pre-registration is required. The leaflet describing the self-directed tour and its route can be picked up just outside the SEAS Dean’s Office suite on the main corridor of the C-wing, just next to the E-Quad Café. The self-led tour can be done at any time that the building is open, Monday through Friday, but we ask that you do not enter labs or offices unless invited by a member of the faculty or staff.