[3] In 2020 Caldwell University was designated by the U.S. Department of Education as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

It is on a seventy-acre campus along Essex County Route 506 (Bloomfield Avenue) and shares the land with the Sisters of St. Dominic's Caldwell convent and Mount Saint Dominic Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school.

Caldwell University teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division II.

The Cougars are a member of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC).

In fall of 2019, Caldwell University launched an eSports program as a member of the ECAC.