At Drew, we emphasize connections, experiences, and opportunities, while building a sense of community.
Small community. Big opportunities.
Drew University offers the best of all worlds. Our prime location in Madison, New Jersey, provides the comfort and security of living in one of the safest college towns in the country, on a gorgeous, tree-filled campus. Plus, students have easy access to a world of exciting learning opportunities on campus, in New York City, and beyond.
Our seven New York Semesters bring students into the Big Apple to explore and make meaningful connections with industry professionals and guest speakers. Students immerse themselves in these one-of-a-kind programs on Wall Street, the United Nations, contemporary art, New York theatre, communications and media, social impact, and museums and cultural management.
Don’t be fooled by small classes and a tight-knit community—big things can come from small packages.
Don’t just take our word for it…
Drew just welcomed an historically-large first-year class of more than 400 students and set a school record for new transfer students.
And it’s not just students who are noticing Drew. It’s rankings season, and the accolades are pouring in:
• Drew leapt into the top 100 liberal arts schools in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 rankings, one of the largest jumps in the nation.
• U.S. News also ranked Drew among the country’s top 10 for social mobility, measured by a school’s ability to enroll and graduate a significant number of Pell-eligible students.
• Washington Monthly moved Drew up 26 spots to number 73 in their annual rankings of top liberal arts schools. • Drew once again made The Princeton Review’s Best 389 Colleges list, receiving top 25 marks for Best College Theater and Lots of Race/ Class Interaction. Earlier in the year, the outlet named Drew as a Best Value School for the fifth straight year.
No matter where you go to college, these years are going to be big. But if you choose Drew, they will be so much more, and they will happen at a nationally-ranked school that prepares you for great things.
Big experiences lead to bold futures
One of the reasons for Drew’s huge jump in U.S. News’ latest rankings? Their methodology put more weight on student outcomes this year, priming Drew for a major boost.
We know college is the launchpad to a student’s future. For all the big things that undergrads will do as students, nothing is as exciting as what they’ll do after Drew, and we help prepare them for that future.
Our students are routinely admitted to the most prestigious graduate schools in the country, like Georgetown, Harvard, Penn, and Princeton. They land jobs at global powerhouses like Amazon, Apple, Disney, and Google.
Drew also makes it easier on our students to land at top grad schools through our 19 Dual-Degree programs with schools like Columbia, Duke, and NYU, in fields like business, cybersecurity, engineering, law, and medicine.