About Georgian Court University

Georgian Court University (GCU or Georgian Court) is a private Roman Catholic college circles in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. Founded in 1908 by the Sisters of Mercy, the academe has higher than 1,500 undergraduates and nearly 600 graduate students.

The institution became a university in 2004 and began admitting male students in 1994 after more than 100 years as a women’s college. The academe is entrance to students of everything faiths, while emphasizing its mission of Mercy, which incorporates respect, justice, integrity, compassion, and service.

The Lakewood campus (main campus) was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985.

Lakewood Township is the most populous township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2019, Population Estimates Program, the United States Census Bureau estimated that the municipality had a population of approximately 106,300 residents. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 92,843, representing an mass of 32,491 (+53.8%) from the 60,352 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in position increased by 15,304 (+34.0%) from the 45,048 counted in the 1990 Census. The township ranked as the seventh-most-populous municipality in the allow in in 2010, after having been ranked 22nd in 2000. It now ranks 5th. The sharp increase in population from 2000 to 2010 was led by increases in the township’s Orthodox Jewish and Latino communities.

Lakewood is a hub of Orthodox Judaism, and is home to the largest yeshiva external of Israel, the 6,500-student Beth Medrash Govoha, which was founded by Rabbi Aharon Kotler. The large Orthodox population, which comprises over half the township’s population, wields considerable political clout in the township as a voting bloc.