About Drew University

Drew University is a private university circles in Madison, New Jersey. Drew has been nicknamed the “University in the Forest” because of its wooded 186-acre (75 ha) campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university’s three schools.

In 1867, financier and railroad tycoon Daniel Drew purchased an home in Madison to assert a theological seminary to train candidates for Methodist ministry. The seminary sophisticated expanded to give an undergraduate advanced arts curriculum in 1928 and graduate studies in 1955. The College of Liberal Arts, serving exceeding 1,600 undergraduate students, offers mighty concentrations in the natural sciences, social sciences, languages and literatures, humanities and the arts, and in several interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary fields. The Drew Theological School, the third-oldest of thirteen Methodist seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church, currently enrolls more than 350 students preparing for careers in the ministry and the academic investigation of theology.

The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, enrolling exceeding 250 graduate students, offers master’s and doctoral degrees in a variety of specialized and interdisciplinary fields.

While affiliated in the same way as the Methodist faith, Drew University makes no religious demands of its students. Although many of the Theological School’s students and knack are Methodists, students of whatever faiths are admitted to any program within the university. The United Methodist Church’s General Commission on Archives and History is located on campus; the Commission maintains an archive of Methodist history and artifacts from the 19th century to the present.[citation needed]

Madison is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 15,845, reflecting a drop in population of 685 (−4.1%) from the 16,530 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in viewpoint increased by 680 (+4.3%) from the 15,850 counted in the 1990 Census.

Located along the Morris and Essex Lines it is noted for Madison’s historic railroad station becoming one of America’s first commuter railroads, attracting successful families from to hand Manhattan. It remains a popular commuter town for residents who put it on in New York City. The community maintains a population of nearly 18,000 residents. It is known as “The Rose City” and was named in award of President James Madison.

Madison was ranked 33rd in Money Magazine’s 2011 ranking of the “Best Places to Live”, the 3rd highest-ranked place in New Jersey and second highest in Morris County in back Montville. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Madison first in the come clean in its 2019 rankings of the “Best Places to Live” in New Jersey.

Often regarded as a instructor town, along the Florham Park–Madison–Convent Station (Morris Township) border are three universities including Drew University, the Florham Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University and the College of Saint Elizabeth located in Convent Station. Madison is home to the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, one of the largest professional Shakespeare companies in North America.