Skip to Content
suggested searches
close

Rowan University
Rohrer College of Business

As Rowan’s first academic building solely dedicated to business education, the Rohrer College of Business has inspired a new era of entrepreneurial activity, experiential learning, and regional business partnerships on campus.

  • Location

    • Glassboro, NJ

    Size

    • 98,000 GSF

    Program

    • Collaboration rooms, classrooms, trading room, business center, career center, experiential learning

    Practice area

    Certifications

    • Designed to LEED Silver Standards

Architecture expressive of a first-class business education

Located at a main campus gateway, Rohrer makes a striking first impression when visiting Rowan’s campus. Its forward-looking exterior reflects the University’s rising stature as a premier research university and provides an inspiring welcome to the top-rated entrepreneurial programs within.
A luminous central hub at the heart of the building is both a crossroads for the University as well as a gathering place that encourages close collegial interaction between students and regional business leaders.

While much of the building’s exterior relates to Rowan’s traditional architecture, the northern façade presents a more contemporary aesthetic.
Natural light floods the building through generous glazing.

The Undergraduate School of Business offices have a prime view overlooking the activity of the Hub

Two Business Center presentation rooms can be subdivided from the hub with moveable partition walls

The Trading Room, located opposite the Hub, is important to the Rohrer brand

The Hub is a partitionable lounge, meeting, and study space—the building’s heart and crossroads.

Supporting four centers of excellence

Rohrer’s ambition is to educate and prepare students with real-world immersion, entrepreneurial thinking, and responsible leadership. The new building features four business Centers, each with their own dynamic learning environments:

  1. Center for Professional Development with breakout rooms for mentorship, coaching, and interviews with industry partners.
  2. Center for Innovation + Entrepreneurship featuring an experimental lab and makerspace where students can develop and test business ideas
  3. Center for Responsible Leadership with flexible, state-of-the-art classrooms and collaboration spaces
  4. Center for Experiential Learning where students collaborate with real-world business leaders in project-based learning environments
Myriad programs radiate from the Hub, a warm and inviting space for students, faculty, and members of the business community.
Rohrer includes several different classroom types: cluster classrooms easily toggle between instructor-led and small group learning.
Flat floor classrooms provide technology-rich, flexible instruction environments.
Breakout rooms are in near constant use for coaching sessions, group projects, and individual study.
Informal study and social spaces with varied furniture options support a range of uses.
The faculty conference room on the fourth floor is an inspiring setting for presentation and collaboration.
Project impact
  • 2,000

    Students in the new building, doubling the College’s previous student capacity

  • Top 50

    Undergraduate entrepreneurship programs of 2023

A spectacular facility by any measure, the building will allow us to attract the best students and professors to Rowan University.
Ali HoushmandPresident

For more information about this project:

Share this project:

Collaborator

KSS Architects

Project Team

Andropogon

Atelier Ten

Code Red

Illumination Arts

JEM Associates

Joseph Jingoli & Son

KSS Architects

Metropolitan Technologies

MPP Engineers

Pennoni Associates

Robert Schwartz & Associates

TBS Services

Toscano Clements Taylor

Vanderweil

Vermeulens

Photography

Halkin Mason

related content

Back to top