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Quick Facts

Founded: 1933

Type: Private

Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1 (UG & GR)

Demographics: Students come from 30 countries and 30 states

 

Fall 2018 Enrollment

  • Total enrollment: 6,167
    • Undergraduate: 4,448 full-time, 182 part-time
    • Graduate: 1,537 (43% are full-time)

Faculty

  • Full-Time: 312
  • Part-Time: 370 (including administrative adjuncts)
  • Percentage of full-time faculty with terminal degrees: 74.7%

Degrees and Programs

  • 33 bachelor’s degree programs
  • 24 master’s degree programs
  • 2 doctoral degree programs

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: 168
  • Buildings: 58
  • Landmark Buildings: Woodrow Wilson Hall is a National Historic Register. Guggenheim wing of Monmouth University Library is on the National Register of Historic Places
  • $102,500,000 in new construction over six years without incurring debt
  • Recently completed building projects: So Sweet A Cat Field Hockey Field (2018), new Outdoor Track and Field Facility (2018), Graduate Center at Monmouth Park Corporate Center (2018), Edison Science Building (2017), Kessler Stadium (2017), Pozycki Hall (2015), Hesse Hall (2014)

Athletics

  • NCAA Division I: 23 teams
  • 569 Students engaged in Division I sports (12.5% of full-time undergraduate students)
  • Nickname: Hawks
  • Colors: Blue and White
  • Conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Big South (Football)

Financial

  • Operating Budget: $178,425,000
  • Endowment: $100,970,000 (as of 06/30/2018)
  • Discount rate for overall undergraduate, including athletics: 40.8%

Sustainability

  • NJ Clean Energy School
  • Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for Environmental Leadership
  • First private institution in NJ to voluntarily enter into a sustainability agreement with EPA
  • Princeton Review 2016 Green College
  • 2017 Recognized by Metro Atlantic Conference as largest green power user in conference
  • Purchase 15% of energy from green sources

Distinctive Features

  • 100% of students engaged in experiential learning
  • Monmouth finished 1st in overall Commissioner’s Cup standings in our 4th straight year (our 5th year in the MAAC)
  • Music Industry concentration is one of only a select few offered throughout the country
  • Only ABET-accredited BS Software Engineering in New Jersey
  • GRAMMY Museum affiliate
  • Peace Corps Prep Program, the only one in NJ
  • Coastal location about an hour’s drive from New York and Philadelphia