Montclair State University

The Montclair State Institution (often known as MSU) is a public research university that is located in Montclair, New Jersey. Portions of the campus can be found in Little Falls as well. As of the fall semester of 2018, Montclair State University held the position of being New Jersey's second largest public university in terms of student enrolment. There were a total of 21,005 students enrolled as of November 2021, with 16,374 students studying at the undergraduate level and 4,631 students studying at the graduate level. It is categorised as an R2 university, which stands for "Doctoral Universities - High Research Activity." The campus encompasses a total area of about 252 acres (1.02 km2). More than 300 different majors, minors, and concentrations are available to students at this university.

The State Normal school was proposed to the state of New Jersey in 1903, but it took an additional year for the state to provide its approval for the school's construction.

In 1908, around 5 years after the initial planning of the institution, it was then founded as the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair, a normal school. In 1908, Governor John Franklin Fort was present at the school's dedication, and the following year, Charles Sumner Chapin was slated to become the school's first principal. It was College Hall that was the first building completed, and it is still there to this day. At that time, there were 187 students and 8 teaching staff members on the campus that spanned around 25 acres (100,000 square metres). William O. Trapp, who would go on to become the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1929, was a member of the first graduating class, which had a total enrollment of 45 students. After that, construction on the first dorm began five years later, in 1915, and it was given the name Russ Hall.