On the same day Rutgers University officials announced fall plans, Princeton University said it would be bringing approximately half of its undergraduates to campus each semester, yet most of the teaching will be done remotely.

First-year students in the class of 2024 and juniors can be on campus for the fall semester. In the spring term, the school will welcome back sophomores and seniors. They will receive a 10 percent discount on tuition.

All undergraduates will have the option to complete the entire school year remotely.

Graduate programs will resume on campus in the fall. Graduate-level courses and graduate advising can occur in person or virtually.

“Over the last two months, my colleagues and I have been studying the pandemic and identifying measures we can take to accommodate students on campus,” Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber wrote on the University’s website on Monday. “COVID-19 is still a very new disease, and much remains unknown about it. Several points have, however, become clear. Based on the information now available to us, we believe Princeton will be able to offer all of our undergraduate students at least one semester of on-campus education this academic year, but we will need to do much of our teaching online and remotely.”

The fall semester will begin on August 31. The fall break will only be a long weekend, and students will be asked to leave campus for the semester before Thanksgiving. The fall reading period and examinations will be fully remote. Spring break will also be a long weekend to reduce travel during the second semester.

Students choosing to come to campus will find a number of traditional college activities prohibited. According to the school’s announcement, parties re not allowed, masks will be required in indoor spaces, including in all classrooms, laboratories, and libraries. Social distancing will be the norm. Travel will be limited.

Students will be tested for COVID-19 when they arrive, and regularly thereafter. Isolation will be mandatory for students who test positive for COVID-19; quarantine will be mandatory for students who have been in contact with someone who gets COVID-19.

“As students consider their choices, they should bear in mind that the campus experience will be very different from an ordinary year,” Eisgruber wrote.

University officials will try to accommodate a limited number of other students whose special circumstances require them to be on campus in specific semesters, Eisgruber wrote. In the fall term, that will include a small number of seniors whose thesis research must be done on campus. The university will also accommodate students who face housing insecurity, new transfer students, and ROTC students on campus in the fall.