Challenge — Every Step of the Way
More than Just a Number
Distinguished Faculty
Our more than 90 rigorous academic programs — highly ranked by The Princeton Review, U.S.News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek — are designed to challenge you. They are meant to create an environment that nurtures your intellectual curiosity and develops well-rounded, analytical and compassionate critical-thinkers. Seton Hall is a place where students conduct research, present at national conferences with faculty, receive grants from NASA, win Fulbright awards and push their boundaries to excel. Here, great minds are exposed — as early as freshman year — to many kinds of hands-on learning opportunities that few schools offers so early on. Seton Hall allows you to blaze a trail and set yourself apart.
Great minds needs great mentors. At Seton Hall, highly accomplished, dedicated faulty will devote their time and attention to your success. We pride ourselves on small classes and devoted faculty members who know more than your name. With an average class size of 21 students and a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, our educators know what makes you tick and what matters most to you; they build on your personal passions to mentor and guide you in your academic and career endeavors. For you this means unprecedented access to faculty and hands-on learning opportunities. This unique relationship fosters a highly enriching learning experience where our faculty work together with you — in the classroom, in labs, in practicum and internship settings — to add real-world value to your learning.
Our faculty are great minds in their own right: accomplished scholars, researchers, authors, artists, filmmakers, former school superintendents and principals, nursing leaders, former ambassadors, analysts, business executives and lawmakers. All are dedicated to their fields and their students. Seton Hall professors have received prestigious recognitions — such as Fulbright Awards, Emmy Awards and Guggenheim Fellowships — and have been awarded millions of dollars in grants from such renowned organizations as NASA and the National Institutes of Health. Each day, our faculty shine in the lecture halls, meet regularly with students outside the classroom and help them learn to think critically. They use the insights they’ve gained teaching and conducting research overseas to broaden the minds and perspectives of our students.
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Sulie L. Chang, Ph.D. Biology Professor and Director of the Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology
s a professor and principal investigator on several National Institutes of Health grants, I am rewarded greatly by mentoring my students in the classroom and in the research lab. From my experience, there are two ways to teach in a laboratory: A student can be taught how to follow instructions and learn techniques in a teaching laboratory, much like being taught how to follow a recipe in a cookbook; or a student can learn critical-thinking skills by problem solving in a research laboratory, much like learning how to create his/her own recipes. My preference is the latter — to work with students on how to be good problem solvers and critical-thinkers, and how to overcome obstacles they encounter in the research laboratory and in the world.”