{"id":40802297574,"date":"2026-09-10T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802297574"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:21:19","slug":"monmouth-university-ranks-no-3-among-the-nations-colleges-closest-to-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-ranks-no-3-among-the-nations-colleges-closest-to-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth University Ranks No. 3 Among the Nation’s Colleges Closest to the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monmouth University was named No. 3 on a list of colleges closest to the beach in the United States by BroBible, placing the University among 17 schools nationwide. Monmouth trailed only Texas A&M University\u2013Corpus Christi and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was the only New Jersey institution to make the list, in a field otherwise dominated by schools in California and Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BroBible’s Cass Anderson argues that a beachfront college provides intangibles “that can have a very real impact on one’s mood.” Monmouth’s West Long Branch campus sits roughly a mile from the Long Branch beaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond offering a scenic shoreline, Monmouth’s beach proximity anchors one of the University’s signature academic strengths: its Marine and Environmental Biology and Policy program and the Urban Coast Institute, where students and faculty conduct hands-on research on coastal ecosystems, water quality, and ocean policy in the very waters just beyond campus. What a ranking measures in miles, Monmouth students experience as a living laboratory\u2014one that stays open long after beach season ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a central location within easy reach of both New York City and Philadelphia, Monmouth’s unique coastal setting simultaneously gives students a scenic beach reprieve, access to major cities, and opportunities for hands-on coastal learning and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full list in BroBible’s ranking of the 17 closest colleges to the beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monmouth University was named No. 3 on a list of colleges closest to the beach in the United States by BroBible, placing the University among 17 schools nationwide. Monmouth trailed only Texas A&M University\u2013Corpus Christi and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was the only New Jersey institution to make the list, in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":40802297594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,188,319,444],"tags":[7643,3480,1266],"person":[],"audience":[11,8,1961,128,155],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802297574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-great-location","category-mu-in-the-news","category-monmouth-now","tag-brobible","tag-rankings","tag-uci","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-parent","audience-prospective-undergraduate-student","audience-urban-coast-institute"],"squareimage":{"id":40802297588,"rendered":"\"A","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Beach-Shoot-w-Students-EDITED_20250921_MG_-45-1square.jpg","width":683,"height":683}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802297574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802297574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802297574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802297609,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802297574\/revisions\/40802297609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802297594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802297574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802297574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802297574"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802297574"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802297574"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802297574"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802297574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}