Monroe College is a proprietary college with campuses in the
Bronx and
New Rochelle in the
U.S. state of
New York and in the Caribbean nation of
St. Lucia. The college is named after
James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States.
Mildred King founded the "Monroe School of Business" in 1933 at 1940 Boston Post Road in the Bronx. The first class consisted of seven students in four classrooms. By 1936 after Henry Jerome joined the school had 145 students.
The college offers two-year, four-year, and graduate programs (through the King Graduate School of Business).
Monroe offers
associate degree programs in accounting, nursing, business administration, business technology, criminal justice, culinary arts, hospitality management, information technology, medical administration, and medical assisting.
Baccalaureate programs are offered in accounting, business management, criminal justice, early childhood education, general business, health information management, hospitality management, information technology and public health. An
MBA in Business Management and a
master's in Criminal Justice is also offered. Associate programs and business, criminal justice, hospitality management, and medical administration and baccalaureate programs in business, criminal justice, health services administration, and hospitality management are available in the online learning format.Monroe College also...
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