About Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University is a private, Catholic academic world in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan academic world in the United States.

Seton Hall consists of 11 schools and colleges, with an undergraduate enrollment of practically 5,800 students and a graduate enrollment of more or less 4,400. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

The university was particularly known nationally for its flourishing men’s basketball team, which has appeared in 13 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournaments and achieved national renown after making it to the complete of the 1989 tournament and losing 80-79 in overtime to the Michigan Wolverines. The basketball finishing and increased national television freshening has led to a sharp jump in applications from potential students and attendance at games.

South Orange, officially the Township of South Orange Village, is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village’s population was 16,198, reflecting a decline of 766 (-4.5%) from the 16,964 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in position increased by 574 (+3.5%) from the 16,390 counted in the 1990 Census. Seton Hall University is located in the township.

“The become old and circumstances below which the state South Orange originated will probably never be known,” wrote historian William H. Shaw in 1884, “and we are obliged to fall back upon a tradition, that Mr. Nathan Squier first used the publish in an billboard offering wood for sale” in 1795. Other sources attribute the derivation for anything of The Oranges to King William III, Prince of Orange.

Of the 565 municipalities in New Jersey, South Orange Village is one of abandoned four behind a village type of government; the others are Loch Arbour, Ridgefield Park and Ridgewood.

South Orange Village dates back to May 4, 1869, when it was formed within South Orange Township (now Maplewood). On March 4, 1904, the Village of South Orange was created by an warfare of the New Jersey Legislature and divided from South Orange Township. In 1978, the village’s publish was tainted by referendum to “The Township of South Orange Village”, becoming the first of beyond a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships in order accept advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater portion of management aid to municipalities upon a per capita basis.