Yeh College (provisionally known as New College East until 2022, and Residential College 7 until 2021) is the future seventh

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. It is scheduled to be opened before September of 2022. The construction of Yeh College will increase the undergraduate student body population by 10 percent, or 500 students. It aims to be

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certified.

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are the architects of the new buildings. A sister college, tentatively titled

New College West New College West is the sixth residential college at Princeton University. The construction of New College West will help increase the undergraduate student body population by 10 percent, or 500 students. It aims to be LEED Gold Leaders ...

, is being built adjacent to Yeh College, and share the same dining facility. New College West will house students displaced by the demolition of

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, which is to be replaced with Hobson College in 2026.

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