Princeton University is restoring ties with Navy ROTC (NROTC). Starting this fall, students will be able to participate in a cross-town program with Rutgers University, itself established only recently, in March 2012. 

Princeton was among the first elite universities to welcome ROTC back after the Vietnam-era break. But although Army ROTC at Princeton was reestablished in 1972, Naval ROTC did not return, as the university continued to refuse academic credit for any Navy course. Today’s announcement doesn’t address the question of credit, but it does state that ROTC instructors will be able to teach on both the Rutgers and Princeton campuses.