Quick Facts

Founded: 1933

Type: Private

Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1 (UG & GR)

Demographics: Students come from 33 countries and 34 states

Fall 2020 Enrollment

• Total enrollment: 5,675
  • Undergraduate: 4,094 full-time, 170 part-time
  • Graduate: 1,411 (43% are full-time)

Faculty

• Full-Time: 311
• Part-Time: 385 (including administrative adjuncts)
• Percentage of full-time faculty with terminal degrees: 75.2%

Degrees and Programs

• 33 bachelor’s degree programs
• 23 master’s degree programs
• 3 doctoral degree programs

Tuition and Fees

• For more information visit: www.monmouth.edu/finaid/tuition-and-fees/

Campus

• Location: 400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, New Jersey. One mile from the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean and about an hour from New York City and Philadelphia
• Graduate Center Location: Monmouth Park Corporate Center, 185 Route 36, West Long Branch, New Jersey
• Acres: 170.21
• Buildings: 75
• Landmark Buildings: The Great Hall at Shadow Lawn is a National Historic Register. Guggenheim wing of Monmouth University Library is on the National Register of Historic Places
• $168,257,878 in new construction over eight years without incurring debt
• Recently completed building projects: Graduate Center at Monmouth Park Corporate Center – Linda Grunin Healthcare Simulation Center (2020), Student Lounge, Athletic Training, Speech-Language Pathology, Literacy Center (2019) So Sweet A Cat Field Hockey Field (2018), New Outdoor Track and Field Facility (2018), Edison Science Building (2017), Kessler Stadium (2017), Lakehouse in Asbury Park, NJ for Music & Theatre (2017 & 2015), Pozycki Hall (2015), Hesse Hall (2014)

Athletics

• NCAA Division I: 23 teams
• 565 students engaged in Division I sports (13% of full-time undergraduate students)
• Nickname: Hawks
• Colors: Blue and White
• Conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Big South (Football)

Financial

• Operating Budget: $157,801,669
• Endowment: $108,463,000 (as of 6/30/2020)
• Discount rate for overall undergraduate, including athletics: 43.8%

Sustainability

• NJ Clean Energy School

• 2019 NJDEP Recycling Award

• NJ Sustainable Business Association of NJ Recyclers Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for Environmental Leadership

• Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for Environmental Leadership

• First private institution in NJ to voluntarily enter into a sustainability agreement with the EPA

• 2017 Recognized by Metro Atlantic Conference as largest green power user in conference

• Purchase 25% of energy from green sources in 2019

• Utility costs have decreased or remained stable continuously since 2007

• Two solar generating systems combined capacity to generate over 1.02 MW of renewable electricity

• Demand Response Program

Distinctive Features

• Centers of Distinction
  • Center for the Arts
  • Institute for Global Understanding
  • Monmouth University Polling Institute
  • Kislak Real Estate Institute
  • Urban Coast Institute

• 100% of students engaged in experiential learning
• Music Industry concentration is one of only a select few offered throughout the country
• GRAMMY Museum affiliate

• The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University

• Only programs of their kind in NJ:

  • ABET-accredited BS in Software Engineering

  • Peace Corps Prep Program

  • IALEIA-certified Intelligence Analyst Track (Graduate)

  • M.S.Ed. in Special Education – Autism/Applied Behavior Analysis

  • Interactive Digital Media Concentration (Graduate)

• Coastal location about an hour’s drive from New York and Philadelphia