Rowan University

Founded in 1923, Rowan University is a comprehensive state university located in Glassboro, NJ. With over 300 Faculty and 9500 students, Rowan is the University of South Jersey. Rowan University is committed to knowledge through study, responsibility through service, and character through challenge. Based on a nationwide survey of guidance counselors, Newsweek/Kaplan placed Rowan University on its list of “Hidden Treasures”—terrific colleges that offer the best value for the money. US News & World Report ranks Rowan in the “Top Tier” of Regional Universities.

Rowan is located in an area of farms and peach orchards, close to the Pinelands (our country's first National Reserve and a U.S. Biosphere Reserve of the Man and the Biosphere Program) and the Jersey Shore. New Jersey ranks fourth among US states in tourism revenue, the Jersey Shore is the reason why. It is approximately an hour to Atlantic City. Rowan is only 30 minutes from Philadelphia, 2 hours from New York City, and 2 hours and 40 minutes from Washington, D.C.

 

College of Engineering

The College of Engineering was started as a result of a $100 million donation in 1992 from Henry Rowan. It has a brand new engineering building, including state-of-the-art equipment and computer resources, and a dedicated and extremely competent faculty. Facilities such as seminar and lecture rooms, laboratories, computer rooms, audiovisual equipment and study hall space are located in Rowan University's state-of the art Henry M. Rowan Hall. The home of the College of Engineering has 92,500 sq. ft. of space with multifunctional state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories. The chemical, electrical and environmental engineering departments have purchased over $3.4 M worth of equipment in the last six years and have all major analytical equipment for research.