Monroe College Info

Monroe College is an American for-profit college based in New York. The college was founded in 1933, and has campuses in the Bronx, New Rochelle, New York, and the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia. The college is named after James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Monroe is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.The president is Stephen J. Jerome.
onroe College was founded in 1933 by Mildred King as the Monroe School of Business, a woman's business school, in the West Farms section of the Bronx.The school's classes were held at the site of the former Starlight Ballroom.

Monroe officially transitioned from a business school to an accredited junior college in 1972 when it earned the right to grant associate degrees AOS,and the college was renamed to Monroe Business Institute. More classrooms were added on Morris Avenue and in 1977, the West Farms facilities were closed and all Monroe programs were consolidated in the Fordham Road Area.


Gaddy Hall at Monroe College - New Rochelle Campus
In 1990, the name of the school was changed from The Monroe Business Institute to Monroe College after receiving accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In the same year, the college joined the National Junior College Athletic Association.citation needed

On-campus student housing was constructed at its New Rochelle, New York location in 2003. That same year it introduced new degree programs in hospitality, criminal justice, and culinary arts. It also built Milavec Hall, a building for math, English and arts classes and began construction of a 200-bed student housing building at its Main Street location in New York.

Online course options for business management and administration were introduced in 2004 and an MBA program was added in 2005.

In 2012, Monroe College received an award from USA Funds for its debt reduction and financial literacy program, DREAM debt reduction, education, assessment and management.