The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey provides quality graduate programs which promote advanced inquiry and application of new knowledge, foster advanced-level career opportunities, and transmit our intellectual and cultural heritage in all its diversity. Its graduate programs are consistent with the College’s commitment to the liberal arts and support the undergraduate program through enriched resources, the discovery of new approaches to teaching and learning, and the creative use of technologies. Through accessible graduate education the College responds to state and regional needs. With outstanding faculty, state-of-the art curricula, and small classes and seminars, Stockton offers distinctive graduate programs and outstanding student support services at affordable rates of tuition.

From a modest beginning in the Fall of 1997 when the Physical Therapy Program welcomed its first cohort of graduate students, graduate programs at Stockton College of New Jersey have blossomed. Stockton is committed to meeting your educational and professional needs. With personal attention and small classes and seminars, Stockton offers a carefully selected group of distinctive graduate programs dedicated to educators, business, health and arts and science professionals, at very affordable tuition rates.

Stockton provides exceptional opportunities for graduate study. In addition to state-of-the-art facilities, it also offers outstanding faculty who bring to the classroom and laboratory both cutting edge professional experience and exceptional teaching talents, the hallmark of Stockton´s faculty generally. While reflecting the College´s founding commitment to singular teaching, what truly distinguishes graduate programs at Stockton is the way that outstanding teaching and facility resources are combined with the highest standards of a liberal arts education and the application-oriented research required of successful leaders in the professions.

The significance of Stockton´s commitment to the critical tradition of the liberal arts and to interdisciplinary training is apparent in all fields of graduate education. All educators today, whether in elementary, secondary or at post-secondary institutions, increasingly depend upon mastering the integration of technologies with traditional subject areas to help students understand new ideas, the human context in which these solutions are applied, or in addressing such social and economic issues as the increasing globalization of national economies or the management of physical and occupational crises of a growing and aging population.

Addressing the political, historical, economic, ethical and human factors, Stockton programs integrate the social, scientific, and cultural expertise resident within an outstanding liberal arts institution to provide consideration and discussion of the concepts and dimensions that are critical to an understanding of physical, ethical and human crises. Stockton brings the faculty and facilities of the corporate, technological, health professions and human factors into close proximity, drawing from these various disciplinary methodologies and viewpoints, integrated learning programs and interdisciplinary training which result clearly from the intersection and interaction among humanists, scientists, social scientists, historical and cultural expertise resident within an outstanding liberal arts school.

Even the most discipline-based scholarship responds to the challenge that comes from close contact with the methods and perspectives of other disciplines and, in crossing freely the boundaries of disciplines, to generate as a result of these interconnections and interactions, a fresh vision of knowledge and its uses, and the breadth and scope to which they may be applied by the professionals trained to use them. Stockton´s distinct success in interdisciplinary programs bonds Stockton faculty and students to colleagues with shared interests and practices in the wider region.

Named for Richard Stockton, one of the New Jersey signers of the Declaration of Independence, the College first offered instruction in September 1971. Since then, the institution has progressed rapidly to receive national recognition for innovative programs.