ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024
Ali Houshmand
President
Rowan University
It long has been said that Houshmand could run any business in the state — because he runs Rowan as if it were a business rather than an institution of higher education. The school’s recent collaboration with Virtua Health is just the latest of dozens of examples of his prowess in the business world, making Houshmand’s goals of increasing enrollment to 38,000 in the next decade while becoming an R1 institution very reachable targets.
