13 Facts About Monroe College

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Monroe College is a Private for-profit college based in New York City.

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Monroe College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Monroe College was founded in 1933 by Mildred King as the Monroe School of Business, a women's business school, in the West Farms section of the Bronx.

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In 1990, the name of the school was changed from The Monroe Business Institute to Monroe College after receiving accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Monroe College has more than 250 full-time faculty members and adjunct faculty members, and the undergraduate student-faculty ratio is 15:1.

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Monroe College has three academic semesters during the 12-month calendar year.

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Monroe College has an associate degree program for accounting and business administration, and bachelor's degrees in accounting, public accounting, general business and business management.

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Monroe College has associate and bachelor's degree programs in Information Technology.

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Monroe College has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education since 1990.

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Monroe College instituted Bachelor's programs in Accounting, Business Management, and Information Systems after authorization from the New York State Board of Regents in 1996.

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Students at Monroe College are 64 percent female and 36 percent male; about 48 percent are of black or African-American ethnicity and about 44 percent of Hispanic or South American origin.

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Monroe College competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association and participates in NJCAA Division I with twelve sports: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, softball, men's soccer, women's soccer, football, women's volleyball, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's cross country, and women's cross country.

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Monroe College launched its Rugby program in 2017, with World Rugby Hall-of-Fame inductee Phaidra Knight as coach.

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