The Campus and Academic Buildings

The campus of East Stroudsburg University includes 63 buildings located on approximately 258 acres in East Stroudsburg Borough and Smithfield Township.

The majority of ESU’s facilities are located in East Stroudsburg, Pa.  These buildings include academic facilities, nine residence halls, a 1,000-seat dining hall, a student center, a 60,000 square-foot Recreation Center, athletic facilities, a library and more. 

• The 130,600-squarefoot Warren E. '55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science & Technology Center opened in August 2008. The facility includes a planetarium and observatory, as well as a wildlife museum of natural history as well as 17 teaching laboratories, nine research laboratories, a multi-use 200-seat auditorium, classrooms, and offices.  In addition to serving our students the museum, planetarium and observatory also provide an educational venue for school children who visit there throughout the year as well as public viewings/shows on weekends.
• Stroud Hall remains the primary academic building at ESU. This four-story classroom building contains lecture halls, computer and language laboratories, instructional spaces, and office areas.
• Beers Lecture Hall, which opened in 1997, seats 150 students and serves as a distance learning facility.
• The Fine and Performing Arts Center consists of two theaters, a gallery, concert hall, rehearsal areas, various art studios, and classrooms.
• The Koehler Fieldhouse and Natatorium serves as the primary physical education and intercollegiate athletics facility.
• Zimbar-Liljenstein Hall houses the Graduate & Extended Studies office, the Student Enrollment Center, a teaching gymnasium, and academic classrooms and office areas for physical education and sport management, as well as the Mekeel Child Care Center.
• The Moore Biology Building contains a large group lecture hall, a greenhouse and wildlife museum as well as classroom and lecture spaces.
• Gessner Science Hall is home to ESU’s Business and Management College and features a Bloomberg Lab facility which opened in 2018.
• DeNike Center for Human Services houses classrooms and has laboratory areas for the departments of health, nursing, and recreation services management
• Rosenkrans Hall, is where you’ll find academic facilities for digital media and technologies classrooms and labs.
• The renovated, 30,200-square foot Monroe Hall reopened in August 2012. Converted from a residence hall to instructional space, this facility contains two computer laboratories, four classrooms, a 68-seat stepped auditorium, three conference rooms, and offices. It also houses the ESU Communication Sciences & Disorders department along with the Communication department.

The nine residence halls include six traditional residence halls and the addition of three suite-style housing facilities, built since 2017.  In total, ESU provides its students with 3,248 beds in order to experience the on-campus lifestyle.  Nearby, on 46 acres of ESU’s property, resides University Ridge, a ten-building student apartment complex that provides an additional 541 beds to ESU students.

Each of the suite-style facilities houses a separate university function.  The University Police Station is housed on the ground floor of Hemlock Hall; an alternative recreation center and spin studio may be found on the ground floor of Hawthorn Hall; and a Health and Wellness Center for students will soon be established in the ground floor of Sycamore Suites.

Meals are served to students in Dansbury Commons, the main dining hall for campus.  In addition to the capability of feeding up to 1,000 students at a time, Dansbury Commons is also home to a Starbucks, a multi-purpose room for campus meetings and initiatives as well as a P.O.D. (Provisions on Demand) for students who need a quick grab-and-go snack or meal.

ESU’s current University Center includes a food court, commuter lounge, game room, student activities offices, and the University Store.  But change is on its way as we prepare to break ground for a new Keystone Commons.  This new state-of-the-art facility will include a career services center, a multicultural center, an international center, a student veterans center, an eSports gaming room, student senate and club offices, W.E.S.S. (the student radio station), The Stroud Courier (the student newspaper), a food court and the bookstore.

Across campus, the Mattioli Student Recreation Center is a full-service fitness center featuring high end exercise equipment, an elevated running track, 4 basketball courts, racquetball courts and more for the exercise enthusiasts.

Located on Smith Street, Kemp Library provides ESU students, faculty, staff and visitors with materials, services, equipment, spaces, and environments that support the University’s academic curricula, assists campus constituents with their study, research, and informational needs, and stimulates cultural development.

ESU also boasts the 6,430 square-foot Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts, an auditorium space that seats approximately 800 individuals and is home to many different meetings, musical and dance performances, concerts and guest speakers. 

Located in Smithfield Township, ESU’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, built in 2010, is located on the corner of Brown Street and Route 447. This 51,000 sq. ft. facility is a driver of economic development support for Monroe County and home to innovators and entrepreneurs whether they be students, faculty, staff or community members.  The Innovation Center includes ESU's Economic Development and Entrepreneurship Division, Business Accelerator Program, Office of Sponsored Projects and Research, Office of Workforce Development, Wet Lab Facilities, Entrepreneurial Leadership Center, ESU's Dr. Jane Huffman Wildlife Genetics Institute, and Computer Training Labs.

Less than 10 miles from campus, ESU affiliate, The Student Activity Association, Inc. owns Stony Acres, a 119-acre off-campus student recreation area near Marshalls Creek, which includes a lodge and a small lake. Considered a wildlife sanctuary, Stony Acres is a 119 acre facility in Marshalls Creek, Pa., that serves as a recreational site and field campus for students, faculty and staff.  While providing outdoor recreational activity and social opportunities, the site also promotes co-curricular involvement and fosters leadership development. 

Lastly, ESU opened an additional location in Bethlehem, Pa. (the Lehigh Valley Center) in 2012 and also partners with Northampton Community College in Bethlehem to provide convenient educational experiences for students in the fields of nursing and business management.  ESU’s Lehigh Valley Center offers opportunities for the adult learner as well as the traditional undergraduate student.  The Center offers undergraduate degree completion, continuing education, non-degree programs, certificate programs and accelerated graduate degree opportunities.