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Hi, I’m JohnFinance major hired by JPMorgan Chase a year before graduation

Professor Mayo will come right up to you in Working Capital Finance and ask a question. Then he’ll go to the next person to support you or disagree. He might ask the entire row before he confirms the correct answer. You have to be prepared and engaged. My friends taking the same course at another university check Facebook in class. —John Rizzi

Rizzi in front of the New York Stock Exchange

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Hi, I’m NiviInteractive multimedia major tapped as Amazon UX designer after auspicious internship

One of my projects was to rethink Amazon’s Selling Coach widget, a recommendation tool for merchants. I held a design lab, which brings together project stakeholders to brainstorm and tease out requirements. It was a great experience for me to lead that. —Niveda Harishankar

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Hi, I’m Mi-YeonInternational studies major who backed a year’s study in China with intensely competitive U.S. grants

I’ve taken two courses with Professor of History Jodi Weinstein, one of which was an independent course on Sino-North Korean relations—an interest we both share. Her letters of recommendation for three scholarships were pivotal: I received all of them. —Mi-Yeon Park

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Sky’s the limit 8 Everywhere 18 Warm 24

Successful 34 Take charge 40 Winning 48

Kick back 54 Yours 64

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ou already know if TCNJ

is right for you. You’re the

student who stands out in

high school for welcoming an intellectual

challenge. Deepening your grasp of the world

feels good; it excites you. That attitude, paired

with restless curiosity, is a bedrock mindset

among the students with whom you’ll go to

class and the professors who’ll lead the way.

It makes for an incredible college experience.

This urge to go that much further is such

a point of pride, we even have a name for it:

The TCNJ Way.

The blend of mentored intellectual

pursuit and value makes TCNJ a rare find:

a public college offering the exemplary

education of an elite private school—

without the price tag.

The TCNJ Way is…

Sky’sthelimit

We are small enough to dote on you, but our expectations are outsized: At TCNJ, you will add to the world’s collected knowledge. With our help, of course.

CLOUDSOURCED An ice crystal viewed at the atomic level with a customized microscope—one unique to TCNJ—is helping physics professor Nate Magee and his team understand how the light it scatters might affect climate.

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about The TCNJ Way 1Communication majors

Kristen Kiernicki,

Amanda Burd, and Janna

Raudenbush study the

connection between the

prevalence of AIDS in African

countries and the degree

to which each government

controls the media. Their

findings later appear in a

paper presented at Oxford. 4Understanding Modern Iran, a

First-Year Seminar, thoroughly

captivates Rob Handerhan. That

summer he’s off to Dushanbe,

the capital of Tajikistan. He

soon designs his own major:

Persianate studies.

5Aspiring geneticist Syndi Barish is

invited to attend a summer research

institute at New York’s Cold Springs Harbor

Laboratory, where she presents her research

and dines at the home of James Watson,

who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the

double-helix structure of DNA.

2Interactive multimedia major

Josh Lewkowicz makes a short

film, wins a national Campus

MovieFest award for special

effects, and, after graduation,

heads to DreamWorks in

Los Angeles to follow his bliss.

3Chemistry major Dylan Nguyen investigates

a protein involved in blood clotting—the

von Willebrand factor—at TCNJ’s Mentored

Undergraduate Summer Experience.

By August, he kills in his ability to think

more broadly than ever before. Watch

Nguyen at admissions.tcnj.edu/dylan.5stories

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Cookie-cutter education? No, thanksIt’s true. With few graduate students on hand, TCNJ flings convention

aside and makes advanced opportunities available to undergraduates.

Why label, we say. Be open about what rouses you, and you’ll find

outstanding faculty here who can mentor and, very likely, take you on as

a junior research collaborator. The TCNJ Way takes you further faster.

13:1student-to-professor ratio

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Up to 75%of students do

research with faculty

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Thrilledyour reaction to having contributed to a better

understanding of our world

YOU’RE ON Folake Ayiloge co-presented at a recent University of Pennsylvania conference on cultural partnerships between universities and their cities with her professor, documentary filmmaker Lorna Johnson–Frizell. Watch @frosted_folakes at admissions.tcnj.edu/folake.

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Arts and CommunicationArt educationArt historyCommunication studiesInteractive multimediaMusic

EducationPerformance

Visual artsFine arts, graphic design, lens-based arts

BusinessAccountancyBusiness administration

FinanceInterdiscplinary businessManagementMarketing

Economics

EducationEarly childhood education Education of the deaf and hard of hearingElementary education Special educationUrban education option

EngineeringBiomedical engineeringCivil engineeringComputer engineeringElectrical engineeringEngineering science

ManagementPolicy and society

iSTEM educationMechanical engineeringTechnology education/ pre-engineering

Humanities and Social SciencesAfrican American studiesCriminologyEnglishHistoryInternational studiesJournalism and professional writingPhilosophyPolitical sciencePsychologySociologySpanishWomen’s and gender studies

Nursing, Health, and Exercise ScienceHealth and exercise scienceNursingPublic health

ScienceBiologyChemistryComputer scienceMathematicsPhysics

Majors with a teacher certification option, five-year master of arts in teaching program, and seven-year MD and optometry programs: admissions.tcnj.edu/academics

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Our Five Signature Experiences define a TCNJ education. The first two are universal experiences, and you select from the rest based on your own interests. But what appeals overall, in the words of business major Jessie Geevers, are TCNJ’s “endless opportunities.”

› personalized, collaborative, and rigorous education

› undergraduate research, mentored internships, and field experiences

› community-engaged learning

› global engagement

› leadership development

Take

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SHARPEN YOUR WITS Plaid-clad undergrad Steven Thompson and Professor of English Michael Robertson team up in class.

These two are classmatesOne of our humanities courses matches you with a professor to do

research and attend a weekly class together, where you are drawn

deep, over bagels and juice, into freewheeling discussions with other

student-professor pairs. Sounds like graduate school to us.

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Every whereGlobal study at TCNJ is more

popular than ever before.

We’ve seen international

experiences—both full-semester

programs and shorter TCNJ

faculty-led trips on themes

such as apartheid in South Africa

and the Armenian genocide—

spike by nearly 30 percent.

Our 500-plus choices include

China, Haiti, France, Ireland, Italy,

Kazakhstan, and South Africa.

We dare you to choose just one.

CUBA, SÍ TCNJ students headed for Havana just days after President Obama announced that the U.S. would normalize relations with the country in 2015.

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Still life with study-abroad iguanaBiology major Andrew Goldfarb (center) does

global studies in an epic way. Freshman year,

he starts with a Holocaust study tour through

Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic,

where he earns honors credit for lecturing to

his peers on the science and pseudoscience

of the Third Reich. Sophomore year, it’s the

Netherlands to study genetic disorders in

a lab. Summer before senior year, he’s in

The Galápagos (pictured), where he picks

up Darwin’s trail, the spot that sparked the

botanist’s theory of evolution.

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WarmIn a recent poll about why students chose us, the top

answer—flat out—was, “It felt like home.”

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CULTURE SHOCK Communication studies major Lindsay Thomas tweets about summer break away from campus.

M aybe this default friendliness gets ingrained

during Welcome Week, an intense, headlong

introduction to college that launches lifelong friendships—

and, years later, even marriage proposals. (No lie.)

Or maybe it’s innate.

For the last two years, TCNJ has landed on GrubHub’s Top 20

Most Polite Colleges in the nation based on the number

of students who say “please” and “thank you” when placing

delivery orders.

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How long does it take to cross campus? (in minutes)

16116bike board foot stopping to say “hi”

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4 SeasonsOnce home to woods and wheat fields, our compact 289 acres, sheltered by a canopy of trees, look fantastic blanketed in fresh snow (top left). Under a cerulean sky, Alumni Grove (top right) is an ideal study spot. Most campus buildings are in homage to the Georgian Colonial architecture of Green Hall (bottom left). TCNJ has two small lakes (bottom right), where you can take part in a Chinese lantern launch—or just relax.

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What matters most? Having a professor who cares about

you as a person and gets you excited about learning

actually doubles the chances you will “thrive in all areas

of well-being,” according to a recent Gallup/Purdue

University poll of college graduates. You can count on

this happening at TCNJ. In the words of one senior:

“My professors have always had my back. I cannot

thank them enough.”

Success ful

BUSINESS PARTNER TO THE ENVIRONMENT A TCNJ graduate with a thirst for surfing, Matt Scapardine took inspiration from management professor David Prensky and lined up a job at Bloomberg LP before he put on his cap and gown. Watch Matt at admissions.tcnj.edu/matt.

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Employers: American Cancer Society American

International School in Kuwait Atlantic Health

System Bank of America Bloomberg Deloitte

JPMorgan Chase Johnson & Johnson Lockheed

Martin L’Oréal USA Lululemon New Jersey school

districts Peace Corps Penguin Random House

Picatinny Arsenal St. Barnabas Healthcare System

TV Land U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

Wells Fargo

Graduate schools: Boston University

Columbia University Cornell University Harvard

Johns Hopkins Penn State Princeton Rutgers

Seton Hall Law School TCNJ University of

Pennsylvania University of Virginia Yale

High Incomes

High Graduation Rates

The College Scorecard

spotlights TCNJ as one of just

two small public colleges

nationwide that have

high graduation rates

leading to high incomes.*

See where our students

head after graduation.

We’re pretty proud.* U.S. Department of Education

admissions.tcnj.edu/highincomes

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$50, 000TCNJ loves entrepreneurs this muchPeter Okoh knows a lot about winning. When he was a teen in Nigeria, his

family won a diversity visa lottery to emigrate to the U.S. As a TCNJ sophomore,

he and two partners took second place in the Mayo Business Plan Competition—

the college’s version of Shark Tank—for a barbershop hangout in Campus

Town. A biomechanical engineering major now working on a brain-controlled

wheelchair, Okoh might consider entering again: The current cash prize pot

is $50,000—the largest in New Jersey higher education.

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TakechargeEffecting change is a powerful, in-demand skill you can build by

working to better a community or by strengthening your leadership

abilities. Both endeavors are at the core of a TCNJ education.COMMITTED TO THE CORE Nursing major Edric Vites is a TCNJ Bonner Community Scholar, one of more than 100 who perform meaningful community service in exchange for financial aid.

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For the common goodCommunity is ingrained in our culture—and our curriculum.

You can get started as early as Welcome Week. We offer

volunteer spots at more than 15 long-term partner sites, and

community–engaged-learning projects are built in to more than

40 classes. How committed are we? TCNJ grants scholarships

to our go-to crew: the 100-student-strong Bonner Community

Scholars Corps.

19,000hours of

Bonner Scholars’ service over the last decade

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Spanishthe language students

taught to Romanian immigrants in Madrid

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Boat pondside benefit of the

flood-prevention basin for South Dakota’s Crow Creek Indian Reservation being designed by TCNJ Humanitarian Engineers

PASSION TO SERVE In the last decade, more than 1,000 TCNJ students have hit the road to help New Orleans heal post-Katrina.

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Goal

$3,000Amount raised

>$5,600

To baldly go …Community service goes well beyond the

classroom. Twenty-five fraternity brothers shaved

their heads to raise money for pediatric cancer

research through St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

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A healthy disregard for the impossibleTCNJ-tailored leadership programs bring out your inner leader, connecting you with

your own capacity to spark real change. Even better? Leadership encompasses the very

skills—the ability to envision, build consensus, and direct action toward an achievable

goal—that prove your value within organizations, from workplace to community.

Operation LeadProgram for a select group

of first-year students to build their leadership potential

98Percentage of students

who called TCNJ’s six-dayLeaderShape Institute “valuable”

ZeroCost to attend the

LeaderShape Institute for participants

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Coach: Brian Bishop,

the only men’s swim coach the

college has ever had, recently

won the distinguished NCAA

Division III National Swimming

Coach of the Year award.

Despite having a seed time

more than seven seconds

slower than the team to beat,

the members of our TCNJ

men’s freestyle relay team each

swam the fastest 200 meters

of their lives, taking home an

NCAA National Championship.

We like to think we get athletics right. As an NCAA Division III school,

we see student-athletes as being spurred on by both intellectual and

physical challenge. We offer 20 varsity sports, racking up 89 national

championships: 40 team, 49 individual. Want to help us win more?

WinningMEN’S

Baseball

Basketball

Cross Country

Football

Soccer

Swim & Dive

Tennis

Track & Field

Wrestling

WOMEN’S

Basketball

Cross Country

Field Hockey

Lacrosse

Soccer

Softball

Swim & Dive

Tennis

Track & Field

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Coach: TCNJ alumna

Sharon Pfluger recently hit

1,000 career wins as coach

of not one, but two teams:

field hockey and lacrosse.

Field hockey made NCAA

history by being the first

team to win the National

Championship without

allowing any opponent goals

throughout the four-game

tournament. The player

hugging the trophy, Lindsey

Hatch, was later nominated for

NCAA Woman of the Year.

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Coach: Wayne Dickens

came to TCNJ with both

NCAA Division I and II

coaching experience, despite

starting as a college coach

at age 42.

Not to put any pressure on

prospective pigskin players, but

our team is tough on opponents

and on academics. Case in

point: A defensive lineman who

played all four years and started

all 10 games his senior year

graduated recently with

a 3.9 GPA. In finance.

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backKick At TCNJ, the immersive

experience of discerning who you want to be is happening simultaneously for the rest of your classmates. Then, mix this heady dynamic with our vibrant campus life. This is what gives rise to friendships that last a lifetime.

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Endless

150+ clubs: All-College Theatre American Medical Student

Association Black Student Union Circle K Circus Club College

Union Board (the people who bring many bold-faced names

to campus, below) Hillel Lions TV Muslim Student Group

New Jersey Christian Fellowship Order of the Nose-Biting

Teacups Pre-Law Society student newspaper The Signal Student

New Jersey Education Association Union Latina Student

Organization Water Watch Women in Learning and Leadership

WTSR 91.3 FM—plus, that new club you’ll launch

30+ intramural teams and sports clubs: Baseball cheerleading

crew dance team fencing flag football ice hockey rugby softball

swimming table tennis Ultimate Frisbee

Greek life: 15 sororities 13 fraternities 2 co-ed groups

Recent bold-faced names on campus: Actor and director

Zach Braff Laverne Cox of Orange Is the New Black Etsy creative

director Randy Hunt Ice-T Jerry of Ben and Jerry’s Journalist

Soledad O’Brien Panic! at the Disco Paramore Transparent’s

Jeffrey Tambor UGGs founder Brian Smith activist Cornel West

“Infinite” pretty much

describes the ways you

can spend your free time

at TCNJ. But we’ll keep

quiet on the countless

personal and professional

advantages this offers you.

That would spoil the fun.

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Life hacks: Recharge and relaxTry spaces that nourish your soul, like TCNJ’s Art Gallery

(top left) or our Spiritual Center. Dine at our award-winning

food court (top right) at Eickhoff Hall, a.k.a. Eick, which

serves up clean food like Mongolian grill, tacos, fresh salads,

and classic fare—with a website that displays Nutrition Facts.

A new 12,000-square-foot fitness center (bottom right) is

key to reenergizing (better yet: studies link regular exercise to

mental acuity). Or head to Campus Town, a new expansive

retail and apartment complex bordering campus that has

us pretty excited. You’ll find Panera, RedBerry Frozen Yogurt,

Yummy Sushi, pub/restaurant Brick Wall, Mexican Mariachi

Grill, plus others—and everything you need for a weekend

getaway: bank, car rental, and, of course, nail salon. A Barnes

& Noble (bottom left) serving Starbucks is fitting, given that

GrubHub calls TCNJ the sixth-most caffeinated campus

in the country.

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Float your boatDesign savvy? Luck? Excess optimism?

Just what does it take to be a Cardboard

Regatta champ? Find out each spring,

when teams vie for victory in blessedly

shallow Lake Ceva. (Tip for success:

join a team with engineering majors.)

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Halo Farm Ice Cream Chocolate Heath Bar, Lemon Cream Sorbet, and Madagascar Vanilla are some of the 50-plus choices to try at Halo Farm, a family operation known for eschewing antibiotics and artificial anything.

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DeLorenzo’s Tomato Pies DeLo’s doesn’t make pizza, rather they put out the state’s best thin-crusted tomato pies, which give star billing to the famous Jersey tomato.

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Labyrinth Books A Princeton must-see, this independent bookstore is in thrall to words on paper. The store stocks titles that skew scholarly as well as popular titles. IQs jump just by being here.

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Jersey Shore It’s difficult to say which shore towns are the best, but two stand out: Asbury Park, for its music history (think Springsteen and iconic venue The Stone Pony), and Wildwood for its boardwalk.

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Deepen your Jerseyness by experiencing

a dozen nearby Garden State legends. Approximate travel time by car listed.Destination: Jersey

Washington’s Crossing Re-enactment Each December, re-enactors don Continental Army uniforms and stage George Washington’s 1776 push through a half-frozen Delaware River to launch a surprise—and successful—attack on Britain’s Hessian troops.

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Eet Gud Bakery Even the most saintly student can be tempted by the sweets sold in this pink-neon legend. Do not skip the crème-filled doughnuts.

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Slocum’s Bowl-O-Drome A TCNJ institution,

Slocum’s is an unpretentious, old-school bowling alley with

12 lanes and decent food.

Apple picking at Terhune Orchards CBS New York calls this farm one of the five best in the tri-state area. It’s not unheard of to leave with a bag of addictive, sugar-crusted cider donuts.

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Quaker Bridge Mall Could there be anything more Jersey than a mall? The closest one is Lawrenceville’s Quaker Bridge Mall, with 90-plus stores, including Apple, H&M, Coach, Foot Locker, and Teavana.

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Delaware-Raritan Canal State ParkBike, hike, or canoe the Delaware-Raritan Canal. Start in Princeton, head north for 15 miles, and you’ll reach Rutgers. Or slow down and look for wildlife.

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New Jersey State Police MuseumCalled “the nation’s favorite soap opera”

by TCNJ alumnus Mark Falzini, the 1932 kidnapping and murder of famed

aviator Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son is preserved—including the ladder used

for the break-in—at the New Jersey State Police Museum, headed by Falzini.

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Campus Town Sometimes the Jersey-est

thing to do is to stay put and grab a meal out with friends.

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If you’ve made it this far, you know that community means everything to us. A warm and supportive environment undergirds The TCNJ Way, for if you are to connect with your greatest potential, having people who’ve got your back means the world. Can you see yourself here?

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Get your app in We’ll be so pleased if you consider continuing your education

with us. You’ll find important dates, as well as step-by-step

application instructions for in- and out-of-state, transfer, and

international students at admissions.tcnj.edu/apply.

Watch our campus videoOur welcome mat is out in this brief, student-produced tour

at admissions.tcnj.edu.

Calculate your savingsCompare TCNJ’s costs with those at schools across the country.

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Learn about financial aidAs a public school founded in 1855, TCNJ has a public mission—

we exist to serve fellow citizens. We take seriously our

responsibility to be an engine of social mobility for our state,

to educate future leaders, and to offer students an exemplary

education. We work hard to be efficient and keep close tabs on

tuition. Approximately 75 percent of our students receive merit

or need-based scholarships. Find scholarships and eligibility

requirements at financialaid.tcnj.edu.

Come see usWe offer a rolling schedule of TCNJ Ambassador-led campus

tours and open houses. Find dates and details on traveling via

trains, planes, and automobiles at admissions.tcnj.edu/visit.

TCNJ: Private feel. Public cost.

Questions? We have answers.Office of AdmissionsP.O. Box 7718Ewing, NJ 08628-0718609.771.2131tcnjinfo@tcnj.edu

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“A public college in the mold of

William & Mary”2016 Fiske Guide to Colleges

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“Stands out for affordability”

Princeton Review’s Colleges That Pay You Back 2015

Fulbright distinctionTop producer of

Fulbright Scholars, 2014–2015 Chronicle of Higher Education

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The only N.Y. metro area public college

in the top 10Money Magazine’s

The 25 Public Colleges Where Students Graduate the Fastest 2015

93percentage of 2014 students

returning sophomore year

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5thnational rank among public

institutions of all sizes for four-year graduation rate

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94percentage of 2014 graduates

calling TCNJ career preparation above average or excellent

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96percentage of 2014 graduates employed/pursuing advanced

study one year out

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7,406students

91 percent are undergraduates. Seventy percent rank

in the top 20 percent of their high school graduating

class, and average SAT scores range from 1130

to 1360. Students of color comprise approximately

25 percent of the most recent class.

“One of the most highly regarded public liberal arts colleges in the Northeast”

Forbes’ Top Colleges, 2015

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“National leader in undergraduate research”Winner of the inaugural Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments

Council on Undergraduate Research, Washington, DC

#1 U.S. News & World Report 2016 (Public, Northeast region)

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Hi, I’m BrittaSelf-designed religious studies major and Circus Club founderVideo | admissions.tcnj.edu/britta

I probably hoop too much for my own good, but it’s my favorite thing. So if I’m writing a paper and I get stuck, I’ll go and hoop for two minutes and then run back upstairs. Or if I have an hour between classes, I’ll usually be in the driveway with my hoops. —Britta Nippert

2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718

tcnj.edu

FUNIVAL!!TCNJ’s annual spring event takes the edge off imminent finals.