Bloomfield College Announces Record Incoming Class

Bloomfield College Vice President of Enrollment Management Adam Castro announced this week that the College’s 2013 incoming class for will have 413 freshmen, the second-highest total in school history.

The school said that in addition to attending the school in greater numbers, students are also living on campus more as well, with half of incoming students living on the college’s grounds.

“We are very excited to welcome such a strong incoming class this year,” Castro said in an email. “Students have joined our campus from all parts of the world. They are energetic, unique, motivated, and primed to do great things here.”

New student body members will be part of the first group to inhabit the institution’s state-of-the-art, 84,000-square-foot residence hall now under construction in Bloomfield Center, with the building set to welcome its first residents in September of 2014.

College representatives touted the new building as part of an effort to revitalize Bloomfield Township’s historic downtown area and to promote Bloomfield College as a premier New Jersey college.

College officials said numbers for the College’s annual Fall Open House rose by 16 percent from the previous year.

“The Franklin Street Residence Hall project has caught the eye of prospective students and parents, and with good reason,” Castro said. “It is a truly impressive structure; a transformational project and a physical representation of the start of a new era here at Bloomfield. I could not be more enthusiastic about what the future holds for this great institution.”