Rowan University facts for kids

Rowan University is a public university in Glassboro, New Jersey, United States. The school also has a campus in Camden, New Jersey. The school opened in 1923 as Glassboro Normal School on a twenty-five acre site donated by the town. The school became New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro in the 1930s. Then it became Glassboro State College in 1958. Starting in the 1970s, it added programs in business, communications, and engineering.

It was renamed Rowan College of New Jersey in 1992, after Henry Rowan and his wife Betty gave the school $100 million. At the time, the gift was largest ever given to a public college. It became Rowan University on March 21, 1997, when it won approval for university status from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. In the fall of 2012, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University opened in Camden. It was the first public medical school in New Jersey not associated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. It later took over the School of Osteopathic Medicine on July 1, 2013. It became the second university in the United States to offer both an M.D. and a D.O. program.

Images for kids

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  Hollybush Mansion, site of the Glassboro Summit Conference

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  Business Hall -- home of the Rohrer College of Business

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  The field of Rowan University's Coach Richard Wackar Stadium.

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  Looking down at the Student Center's Marketplace Cafeteria before renovation in 2018

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  Oak Hall

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  The Townhouse Apartments

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  The Rowan Boulevard Apartments

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  220 Rowan Blvd at night

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  The façade of Bunce Hall shows both the old and the new names of the school