MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY F-14

1 Normal Ave.
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-1624
Tel: (973)655-4000
Free: 800-331-9205
Admissions: (973)655-5116
Fax: (973)893-5455
E-mail: msuadm@saturn.montclair.edu
Web Site: http://www.montclair.edu/

Description:

State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1908. Setting: 275-acre suburban campus with easy access to New York City. Research spending 2003-04: $1.2 million. Educational spending 2003-04: $5811 per student. Total enrollment: 15,637. Faculty: 1,092 (465 full-time, 627 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 18:1. 8,768 applied, 50% were admitted. 18% from top 10% of their high school class, 47% from top quarter, 83% from top half. 50 valedictorians. Full-time: 9,542 students, 61% women, 39% men. Part-time: 2,276 students, 63% women, 37% men. Students come from 13 states and territories, 87 other countries, 2% from out-of-state, 0.4% Native American, 16% Hispanic, 10% black, 5% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 4% international, 23% 25 or older, 27% live on campus, 11% transferred in. Retention: 82% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; social sciences and history; psychology. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, freshman honors college, honors program, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at New Jersey School of Conservation, New Jersey Marine Science Consortium. Study abroad program. ROTC: Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: electronic application, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, SAT or ACT. Required for some: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: 3/1. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $55. State resident tuition: $5168 full-time, $172.26 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $8836 full-time, $294.47 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $1858 full-time, $60.79 per credit part-time, $17 per term part-time. College room and board: $8212. College room only: $5442. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 87 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities. Most popular organizations: Latin American Student Organization, Campus Recreation, Players (A Theatrical Organization), WMSC-FM (The Student-Run Radio Station), Human Relations and Leadership Association. Major annual events: homecoming, Welcome Week, World's Fair. Student services: legal services, health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access, video surveillance, student escorts. 3,149 college housing spaces available; all were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen given priority for college housing. Options: coed, women-only housing available. Sprague Library with 426,583 books, 1.2 million microform titles, 2,955 serials, 47,408 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2003-04: $4.1 million. 218 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Population about 40,000, the township of Montclair is a residential suburb about 14 miles west of New York City and about six miles northwest of Newark. Residents can commute to Manhattan by bus or railroad. An art museum, theater groups, music societies, and a library are provided by the community as well as two hospitals, several shopping areas and numerous active civic and social organizations.