Fairleigh Dickinson University () is a

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with its main campuses in

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, located in

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/ Florham Park and in

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/ Hackensack. Founded in 1942, Fairleigh Dickinson University offers more than 100 degree programs. In addition to two campuses in New Jersey, the university has a campus in

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, British Columbia, Canada, one in

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, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, and an online platform. Fairleigh Dickinson University is New Jersey's largest private institution of higher education, with over 12,000 students.

History

Fairleigh Dickinson University was founded as the Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College in 1942 as a

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by Peter Sammartino and wife Sally, and was named after early benefactor Colonel

Fairleigh S. Dickinson Colonel Fairleigh Stanton Dickinson Sr. (August 22, 1866 – June 23, 1948) was an American businessman who was the co-founder of the Fortune 500 medical technology company Becton Dickinson and the named benefactor of Fairleigh Dickinson Univ ...

, co-founder of

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. Its original campus was located in

Rutherford, New Jersey Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 18,834, an increase of 773 (+4.3%) from the 2010 census count of 18,061, which in turn reflected a de ...

. By 1948, Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College expanded its curriculum to offer a four-year program when the

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and veterans' money encouraged it to redesignate itself as Fairleigh Dickinson College. In that same year, the school received accreditation from the

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. In 1953, Fairleigh Dickinson College merged with the 400-student

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, acquiring its campus in

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. At the time of the merger, Fairleigh Dickinson had more than 2,800 students and would be able to accommodate a total enrollment of 4,000 with its two campuses. In 1956, the institution was recognized as Fairleigh Dickinson University by the New Jersey State Board of Education. In 1958, the university acquired the former Twombly-Vanderbilt estate in Madison and Florham Park, New Jersey, to serve as its third campus.About Florham Campus
, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Accessed October 1, 2021. Fairleigh Dickinson University is a member of the

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. Landscape architect

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, the designer of Central Park, had designed the landscape for the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate (now the Florham Campus). The main house of the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate, now Hennessy Hall, was designed by architectural firm

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in the

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style. The mansion was completed in 1897 and was modeled after the wing of

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. The Friends of Florham, founded in 1990 by Emma Joy Dana, university librarian James Fraser, and a group of friends and colleagues works with the mission of advising and assisting the administration and board of trustees in the care, maintenance, and preservation of the Twombly Estate, known as "Florham".

Presidents

* indicates those who served only as an acting or interim president.

Campuses

Fairleigh Dickinson University has four campuses: two in

(

/ Florham Park and

/ Hackensack), one in

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, and one in

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, as well as an online platform.

Florham Campus

The Florham Campus is located in the suburban towns of

and

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, on the grounds of the former Florham estate of

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(1849–1910) and his wife,

Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly ( Vanderbilt; January 8, 1854 – April 11, 1952) was an American socialite and heiress. She was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She and her husband Hamilton McKown Twombly built Florham, a gilded ...

(1854–1952), a member of the wealthy

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. The Florham Campus finished construction on the John and Joan Monninger Center for Learning and Research. It opened during the spring 2013 semester. Student enrollment at the Florham Campus consists of over 2,757 undergraduates coupled with 690 graduate students giving a total of 3,417 students. The full-time equivalence (FTE) for undergraduates on the campus is 2,481. The FTE for graduates on campus is 796.

Metropolitan Campus

The Metropolitan Campus, close to

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and spanning the

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and Hackensack, New Jersey, has a greater focus on business and professional majors compared to the Florham Campus. The Metropolitan Campus has 5,734 undergraduates and 1,748 graduate students, with an undergraduate full-time equivalence (FTE) of 3,003. 21% of Metropolitan Campus students are minority and international students. Approximately one thousand students live on campus in the residence halls.

Wroxton College

Farleigh Dickinson University's Wroxton College is located in

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, in

. When Fairleigh Dickinson University acquired

Wroxton Abbey Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751. It is west of Banbury, off the A422 road in Wroxton. It is now the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson Univ ...

in 1965, FDU became the first American university to own and operate a campus, Wroxton College, outside of the United States. Although Wroxton College dates to the 18th century, the housing has been modernized.

Vancouver Campus

FDU's Vancouver Campus is located at 842 Cambie Street and 89 West Georgia Street in

. It opened in 2007.

Former campuses

In addition to the present campuses, Fairleigh Dickinson University previously operated campuses in

(where the university was founded in 1942) and in

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. Operations on the Rutherford Campus were merged with the Metropolitan Campus in 1993. The Rutherford Campus was sold to

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in 1997. The West Indies Laboratory which opened in 1972 was damaged beyond repair during

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in 1989 and was closed shortly afterwards in 1990.

Academics

Fairleigh Dickinson's national student body consists of a total 10,899 students, 8,461 of whom are undergraduates, with the remaining 2,438 being graduate students with a full-time equivalence (FTE) of 7,434, making it the largest private institution in the state of New Jersey. FDU has over 1,100 international students from approximately 17 countries around the world ranking it 15th nationally among their Carnegie peer group. The majority of international students attend the Metropolitan Campus and FDU's Vancouver Campus, which was founded primarily to educate international students. The Vancouver Campus is the first U.S.–owned and operated institution in

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to receive University status. The university is ranked 44th by U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2022 Regional University rankings (North). Fairleigh Dickinson consists of two academic colleges: the Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences and the Silberman College of Business, along with seven independent schools: the Gildart Hasse School of Computer Sciences and Engineering; the Peter Sammartino School of Education; the International School of Hospitality, Sports, and Tourism Management; the Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health; the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; the School of Psychology and Counseling; and the School of Public and Global Affairs.

Becton College of Arts and Sciences

Fairleigh Dickinson's Becton College offers more than 60 undergraduate majors to its full and part-time students.

Silberman College of Business

The Silberman College of Business is a tri-campus college of Fairleigh Dickinson University. It offers graduate and undergraduate degrees at the Florham Campus, the Metropolitan campus, and offers bachelor's degree studies in Business Management and Information Technology at the FDU-Vancouver campus. FDU offers

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-accredited graduate and undergraduate business degrees through its Silberman College of Business. Fairleigh Dickinson's Silberman College of Business was ranked as one of the top 295 business schools in the country for 2014 by

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. Fairleigh Dickinson University's International School of Hospitality and Tourism Management features the US national headquarters of the international gastronomic society

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located at the Chaîne House on the Florham Campus.

Graduate studies

Graduate programs are offered at all four of the university's campuses, and a number are offered solely through online delivery, including a postdoctoral MS in clinical psychopharmacology (MSCP) through the School of Psychology and Counseling. Graduate studies include the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) offered by the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in clinical psychology, the Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) in school psychology, and a large number of master's degree programs, including the Master of Public Administration (MPA) and an MA in global affairs offered to nearby consular and diplomatic staff.

FDU School of Pharmacy

In 2012, Fairleigh Dickinson opened New Jersey's first school of pharmacy associated with a private higher education institution, at the Florham Campus. It is the second pharmacy school in New Jersey and the first to open in the state in over 120 years.

FDU School of Public and Global Affairs

After a major gift from alumnus James Orefice in 2017, Fairleigh Dickinson formed a new graduate School of Public and Global Affairs comprising the Master of Public Administration, the Master of Administrative Science, the M.A. in Global Affairs, the M.S. in Cyber and Homeland Security Administration, the Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration, and the survey research group, PublicMind.

FDU Libraries

The university maintains libraries on all four of its campuses. Between the two libraries and one archive located at FDU's Florham and Metropolitan campuses, the university library system holds over 450,000 titles. The Florham Campus library is part of the John and Joan Monninger Center for Learning and Research. A portion of the library is housed in the old

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of the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate which was built in the 1890s by McKim, Mead, and White. The Metropolitan campus features the Metropolitan Library and the North Jersey Heritage Center (an archival collection of New Jersey books, documents, maps, newspapers and reference material, as well as FDU history). The New Jersey collection began in 1961 when FDU became one of the earliest participants in the New Jersey Document Program listed as fourth in precedence out of 80 depositories behind the Council of State Government, Rutgers University and the NJ State Library. The Metropolitan Library holds the

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Archive, a collection of over 230 movies from the Columbia Pictures Studios on 16mm film. The archive was given by Columbia in the 1980s to FDU through the work of Jack Kells, FDU alum and former Columbia executive.

Athletics

In intercollegiate athletics, the Metropolitan Campus competes in

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, while the Florham Campus competes in

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, making it one of only a few schools in the United States to field both Division I and Division III teams. The teams at the Metropolitan Campus are known as the Knights, while the Florham Campus teams are known as the Devils. On March 17, 2023, the Fairleigh Dickinson University men's basketball team became the second team in history to upset a 1 seed as a 16 seed against

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in the

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Florham Campus – NCAA Division III

The FDU Florham Campus sports teams are called the Devils. They are in NCAA

and the

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(ECAC) and they compete in the

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' (MAC)

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. Their mascot is Ian the Devil. The women's basketball team won the national collegiate basketball championship in the year 2013–2014. The Women's basketball team also made it to the NCAA tournament four times in a row from the year 2012 to 2016.

PublicMind

Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind is an independent research group that conducts

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and other research on politics, society, popular culture,

consumer behavior Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services. It encompasses how the consumer's emotions, attitudes, and preferences affe ...

and

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s. PublicMind associates undertake scientific survey research for corporations, non-profits, and government agencies as well as for the public interest, as well as information regarding the FDU community as a whole.

Notable alumni

* Stephanie Adams (1970–2018), model, writer, and murderer *

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(born 1987), professional soccer player (did not graduate) * Brenda Blackmon, television news anchor *

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(born 1948), professional baseball player *

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(born 1962),

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politician *

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* Ron Brill, co-founder of

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(born 1984), Israeli-Canadian professional soccer player *

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(born 1988), professional

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(born 1946),

politician *

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(born 1997), professional basketball player in the

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* Nicholas Felice (born 1927), New Jersey politician *

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(1961–2020), American-French professional basketball player * Charles A. Gargano (born 1934), former U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and chairman of the

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* Gilbert M. Gaul (born 1951), Pulitzer Prize winning journalist *

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(born 1942), professor emeritus of Psychology at the

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(born 1981), filmmaker and writer *

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(born 1956), college basketball coach and television sports personality * Mike Hall (born 1989), bassist *

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, president of

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* Jim Keogh, (born 1948), author * Eleanor Kieliszek (1925–2017; B.A. 1979), politician, first woman chosen as

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. *

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(born 1955; B.S. 1980), video game pioneer * Stewart Krentzman, president and CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc. *

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(born 1958), CEO of

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, president of the

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from 1999 to 2001 and Officer of the

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(born 1992), professional soccer player *

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(born 1953), professional football playerJohnson, Roy S.; and Fiffer, Steve
"Sports World Specials; Giant Scholars"
, ''

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'', June 1, 1987. Accessed July 27, 2022. "Yet, there stood 34-year-old George Martin yesterday afternoon in cap and gown, with diploma in hand, proclaiming, 'this is the day I've been waiting for all of my life.'... Martin was among the 2,500 students who received bachelor's degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University in a ceremony held at the Brendon Byrne Arena.... Martin and Williams are the first Giants to attain bachelor's degrees through the Degree Completion Program for Pro Athletes, which was started at F.D.U. in 1985." * Yahya Maroofi, Secretary General of the

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