Exceptional Access
Among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges for 2025, Monmouth University ranks as one of the top five private, non-denominational, Division I schools for student access and academic excellence. Nearly one-third of Monmouth students are Pell Grant-eligible, and nearly half of first-year students are the first in their family to attend college.
Two of the first Monmouth Future Scholars graduates share how the academic mentoring program, aimed at increasing access to higher education for first-generation students, prepared them for success.
Monmouth University has all three and is on track to become the highest-ranked among institutions in its category with similar access measures.
A new $21 million gift will help expand educational access through a scholarship program that will assist academically excellent undergraduate students with high financial need.
One mile to the beach, one hour to New York City, and less than a 15-minute drive to three bustling cultural destinations—including Asbury Park’s legendary music scene—Monmouth’s historic campus at the coast provides the perfect blend of culture, recreation, education and career opportunities for our students. Plan your visit now.
Exceptional Opportunities
Provides scholars, fans, filmmakers, and curators from around the world access to the largest official collection of the New Jersey rock legend’s written works, photographs, periodicals, and artifacts—featuring over 35,000 items from 47 countries.
Led by founding director Patrick Murray, the Polling Institute remains one of the nation’s most accurate polling operations, recently landing in the top 5 of pollsters ranked by news site FiveThirtyEight.
Recognized as a regional leader in the areas of marine research, coastal policy and community resilience, the UCI provides students and faculty researchers access to a fleet of three research vessels and a collection of cutting-edge marine science technologies.
Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology Sean Sterrett, Ph.D., is part of a team that was awarded a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The main goal of the Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences grant is to diversify the field of biology while offering training and mentorship to a new generation of scientists who will be studying species in a world continually impacted by climate change.
Whether you’re working behind the scenes at a concert or jamming in the recording studio, Monmouth offers a hands-on music program unlike any other. Prepare for varied roles in the music industry while running a record label, producing albums at our partner studio, and performing abroad and at the White House.
Like the mysterious figures who inspired the Rolling Stones’ “Angie” and Carley Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” the identity of Wendy, the woman Bruce Springsteen implores to “let me in” in his song “Born to Run,” has long been the subject of speculation. Carlee Migliorisi ‘24 lets us in on the little-known history behind one of rock’s legendary anthems.
Innovative curriculums and state-of-the-art facilities combine to immerse students in the written, visual, and performing arts. Get insight from visiting writers, display your work in on-campus galleries, take center stage at Pollak Theatre, and more.
In 2010, a blown call robbed Armando Galarraga of a perfect game. Now, a Monmouth pre-law class is appealing his case to the commissioner of MLB.
A new dual degree program is preparing Monmouth students to work at the intersection of criminal justice and social work.
One mile to the beach, one hour to New York City, and less than a 15-minute drive to three bustling cultural destinations—including Asbury Park’s legendary music scene—Monmouth’s historic campus at the coast provides the perfect blend of culture, recreation, education and career opportunities for our students. Plan your visit now.
Exceptional Outcomes
By the time she graduated last May, Morgan Alston had held six internships, was a published writer, was a podcast host and creator, and had two full-time job offers lined up. After spending half a year as a studio production assistant at NFL Films, she recently made the move to ESPN, where she is on the field production unit, traveling to games and special events like the Super Bowl, NBA draft, and NFL combine, interviewing and reporting on athletes.
Music industry graduate Zack Sandler ’20 assists award-winning photographer Danny Clinch and is also the associate producer for the Transparent Clinch Gallery at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival. He has worked on productions with Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, members of Pearl Jam, and more. Sandler is also a tour manager and plays saxophone in several bands.
Now a production assistant for Law & Order, Galloway gained real-world experience through multiple roles on the upcoming feature-length film Miranda’s Victim, which was filmed partly on Monmouth University’s campus. Galloway attributes his hands-on experiences at the student-run television station Hawk TV, along with his coursework, as preparing him to work behind the scenes on major productions.
At Bristol Myers Squibb, Jesse Bragger ’21 is doing early drug discovery research that could one day help cure or treat a variety of cardiomyopathies.
The noted blues and rock historian was recently appointed executive director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University. Santelli, who is also the founding executive director of the Los Angeles-based GRAMMY Museum, credits Monmouth with opening the door to endless opportunities.
Quintanilla is a first-generation college graduate who was inspired by her Spanish-speaking parents to provide those in underserved communities with information they need in their daily lives. As a bilingual news producer for KSN-TV, an NBC-affiliate in Wichita, KS, Quintanilla identifies the day’s top stories, writes scripts, and directs the live show from start to finish.
As a law student and Public Interest Scholar at UC Berkeley’s nationally ranked top-10 law school, McMillan is committed to helping marginalized communities that are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. Her work is focused on community lawyering and finding progressive solutions beyond incarceration.
One mile to the beach, one hour to New York City, and less than a 15-minute drive to three bustling cultural destinations—including Asbury Park’s legendary music scene—Monmouth’s historic campus at the coast provides the perfect blend of culture, recreation, education and career opportunities for our students. Plan your visit now.