More than 23,000 would-be Seton Hall Pirates completed applications for the Class of 2023, making this the fifth year in a row that Seton Hall University has broken its record for student applicants.
Over the last three years the number of applicants to Seton Hall has risen approximately 40%.
Of those 23,000-plus applicants, more than 1,615 freshmen are registered and set to begin classes. That makes for the largest undergraduate class in Seton Hall history, beating last year’s record-breaking class of 2022, which enrolled 1,524 freshman.
During the past five years, the University has invested more than $165 million in new campus buildings and renovations. And in 2015, Seton Hall launched a School of Medicine as well as a College of Communication and the Arts. The University’s beautiful main campus in suburban South Orange, N.J. is only 14 miles from New York City — offering students a wealth of employment, internship, cultural and entertainment opportunities. Seton Hall’s nationally recognized School of Law is located prominently in downtown Newark. The University’s Interprofessional Health Sciences (IHS) campus in Clifton and Nutley, N.J. opened in the summer of 2018. The IHS campus houses the University’s College of Nursing, School of Health and Medical Sciences and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University.
In addition to a record-breaking number of applicants and students, the largest class in Seton Hall’s history has continued the trend of rising academic achievement. The class of 2023 has the highest average SAT score in Seton Hall history – 1235, up 20 points in the last two years – and the highest ACT average, 26.5.
“As our reputation for academic excellence and employment outcomes has grown, so has our pool of applicants and the quality of our students,” said Vice President for Enrollment Management Alyssa McCloud. “We continue to attract some of the best and brightest in this country and throughout the world. The long and storied history of Seton Hall is unfolding in new and exciting ways as our students and graduates continue to show what great minds can do.”
While sustaining academic excellence in its incoming class, Seton Hall also has held its commitment to diversity in all forms and its identity as a university of opportunity: 25% of all incoming students are Pell eligible; 45% identify as students of color; and 36% of all students come from out of state. In addition, 25% are the first generation of their families to attend college.
