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  • Enrollment: 1,613 undergraduate; 800 graduate
  • Costs 2018-19: tuition $32,875; room & board $10,808
  • % freshmen receiving financial aid: 84%
  • % freshmen applicants admitted: 69%
  • SAT score range: Critical reading 420-510; Math 450-550
  • Student-faculty ratio: 12 to 1
  • Graduation rate (within 6 years of enrolling): 24%
  • Median salary (10 years after enrolling): $42,000
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​Founded 1908 in Plainfield by Sisters of Mercy as College of Mount Saint Mary, relocated 1924 to former estate in Lakewood of George Jay Gould, son of railroad magnate Jay Gould, style of buildings and surrounding grounds patterned after English estate of Georgian period, thus named Georgian Court, 150-acre campus named National Historic Site in 1978. Changed name from Georgian Court College to University after state recognized university status.In 2013, became fully coeducational in 2004 after more than 100 years as a women's college. Student body now 70% female, 27% reside on campus; 30 undergraduate degrees, 11 graduate degrees including MBA program is available in evening and Saturday programs, as well as fully online; other classes taught in GCU-Hackensack Meridian Health School of Nursing, School of Arts & Sciences, School of Business & Digital Media, and School of Education, co-ed evening division and co-ed graduate school in education; biology, math, counseling, psychology. Bachelor of Arts awarded in art, art history, biology, chemistry, English, French, history, humanities, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religious studies, sociology, Spanish, and special education; Bachelor of Fine Arts in general fine arts and graphic design/illustration; Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, biochemistry, biology, business administration, chemistry, and physics; also Bachelor of Social Work degree. Majors with largest enrollments education, business administration, psychology, English. Campus includes Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum with extensive gardens open to public.

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Formal garden in Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum Image: Georgian Court University