At which university did House M.D. film many exterior scenes for Princeton-Plainsboro?

House M.D. filmed many exterior scenes for Princeton-Plainsboro at Princeton University.

The fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital was represented on screen by university buildings and campus locations in Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton’s Frist Campus Center was used prominently as the exterior of the hospital, helping give the series a convincing academic-medical setting.

The hospital itself is not Princeton University Hospital. It is a fictional institution created for the story, even though its name and visual identity draw on the real university and surrounding area. Interior hospital scenes were generally filmed on constructed sets or other production locations rather than inside a functioning hospital.

This filming choice is easy to miss because the show presents Princeton-Plainsboro as a complete hospital campus. The university’s architecture provided the recognizable exterior, while the production could control medical interiors, corridors, laboratories, and offices elsewhere. The result blended a real campus with a fictional hospital and fictional medical staff.