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Fordham University
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Fordham University Academics
Founded in 1841, Fordham University is a private four-year Jesuit university with 10 schools on three campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan, and nearby Westchester County. For undergraduates, Fordham offers the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Fordham College at Rose Hill, the Fordham College of Liberal Studies, and the Fordham Adult/Part-Time College. Fordham is also home to graduate programs in arts and sciences, education, law, business administration, religion and religious education, and social service.
Fordham students have a menu of international study options, including at the university’s centers abroad in London, Beijing and Granada. Fordham’s exchange programs provide year-long and semester-long studies in Japan, the Phillipines, China, Ireland, England, Italy, Spain, India and a number of countries. Fordham is one of 283 universities in the U.S. classified as research universities.
The main Fordham campus at Rose Hill is a green 93-acre campus in an urban setting. Fordham is proud of its student to teacher ratio of 13:1, and there are few large lecture hall classrooms here – almost half of Fordham’s classes have fewer than 20 students. Of its 699 faculty members, 382 are tenured and 95 percent hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Fordham has an extensive core curriculum, which can be a turn-off for students who want more flexibility in their schedules. The most popular majors at Fordham, according to U.S. News and World Report, are accounting, business administration and management, communication studies/speech communication and rhetoric, English language and literature, and psychology.
The university offers 67 majors in the following areas:
• Area, Ethnic, Cultural, & Gender Studies
• Visual and Performing Arts
• Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Business, Management, & Marketing
• Communications and Journalism
• Computer & Information Sciences
• English Language & Literature
• Foreign Language & Literature
• Health Professions & Clinical Sciences
• History
• Law and Legal Studies
• Mathematics
• Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Philosophy & Religion
• Physical Sciences
• Psychology
• Public Administration & Services
• Security & Protective Services
• Social Sciences
Fordham University Admissions
Fordham University is considered a selective university, with an overall acceptance rate of 49 percent and an early acceptance rate of 55.3 percent. Regular applications need to be submitted in January, and early acceptance deadline is usually in November. Fordham accepts scores for both the SAT and the ACT, and those are usually due in February. An average of 90 percent of all Fordham freshmen stay with the university, a clear indicator of student satisfaction, and 75 percent of all Fordham students end up graduating from the institution. Both the Rose Hill campus and the Lincoln Center campus offer dozens of campus tours to prospective students, and the Fordham website has a virtual tour available. Summer orientations are held for incoming students, and a three-day mandatory fall orientation is held every year to welcome new students. Commuting students are also treated to a Commuters Barbeque, and Family Weekend is held each September.
Financial Aid
Tuition at Fordham is relatively high, so if you’re hoping for financial aid, the university offers incoming freshmen merit scholarships in three categories: Presidential, Deans, and National Semifinalist. Recipients of Deans scholarships, which start at $10,000 a year, typically have an A or A- average, a minimum combined SAT score of 1350, a rank in the top 10% of his graduating class, and strong background of extracurricular activities. Fordham’s more competitive Presidential scholarships are awarded to students who rank in the top 1 to 2 percent of their class, score above a 1450 on the SAT, and showed strong leadership skills in high school. Presidential scholarships are usually awarded for all four years. Students who were National Merit, National Achievement or National Hispanic semifinalists and finalists might also qualify for scholarships. Fordham also has an extensive work study program for students who need the income while in school. Jobs are available in computer technology, the libraries, the Lombardi Center sports facility and pool, theater and visual arts, and transportation services.
STUDENT FINANCIAL AID DETAILS
Fordham University Students
A total of 6,678 undergraduates and graduate students attend classes on the 85-acre Rose Hill campus in the north Bronx, Of those students, almost half live in campus housing. At the Lincoln Center campus, located on eight acres next door to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, approximately 7,600 professional and undergraduate students attend classes, with 910 living in university housing. About 46.9 percent of Fordham’s students are male and 53.1 percent female. Although freshmen do not have to live on campus, the university is one of few in the U.S. that guarantees its students four years of campus housing. At Rose Hill, Fordham runs four on-campus residence halls for freshmen, six on-campus residence halls for upperclassmen, and furnished off-campus apartments at four locations close to the campus.
Minorities make up about 26 percent of the Fordham student population, and students hail from 47 states and 55 countries.
Because Fordham is in an urban area, it offers students transportation via the popular Ram Van, a shuttle bus that runs every 30 minutes and transports students between the Rose Hill, Lincoln Center and Westchester campuses. For that reason, Fordham students are able to easily enjoy everything that nearby Manhattan has to offer them. There is also a Metro North railroad station just outside the campus and the trip from Fordham to Grand Central station is a mere 15-minute ride.
McGinley Center on the Rose Hill campus provides students with food, offices, a post office, and a bookstore. The Lombardi Center (named after Vince Lombardi) is the school’s gymnasium, where basketball and volleyball are played. Football, lacrosse and rugby are played at the outdoor sports facility, Murphy Field. The campus is close to the Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Yankee Stadium and the Belmont section of the Bronx, also known as that borough’s Little Italy. Various services provided to Fordham students include a free writing center, health services, free counseling and psychotherapy, cultural clubs, LBGT resources and support, and support for disabled students.
The Rose Hill campus has six on-campus eateries, including the main dining hall, Campbell Hall Café, a coffee shop, student deli, a sit-down restaurant with table service, and a late-night grill that stays open until 1 a.m. Fordham has its own student newspaper, the Fordham Observer, and radio station, WFUV, which is widely listened to in the New York City metropolitan region. The student-produced TV program, Fordham Nightly News, or FNN, airs nightly on campus. The university offers dozens of student clubs and organizations ranging from academic clubs to theater and arts clubs, to service clubs like Amnesty International and Students for Fair Trade. Fordham has no Greek sororities or fraternities. Because Fordham is a Catholic Jesuit institution, rules about having overnight visitors are more stringent than some college campuses. And university policy prohibits the health center from dispensing birth control on the campus.
Athletics
The Fordham Rams have 23 intercollegiate teams to root for, including mens and womens basketball, football, track and field, volleyball, soccer, golf, outdoor track, rowing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, water polo and rowing. The Rams are part of the NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference, and the football team is part of the Division I Patriot League. The Rams men’s and women’s basketball teams, and the university football team, have a loyal following among students and alumni. Fordham also offers a wide selection of intramural teams for students, and club sports ranging from crew to ultimate Frisbee. The ultimate Frisbee team, founded in 1993, is called the Fordham Ultimate Flying Jesuits.
Fordham University Traditions
Fordham emphasizes that while academics are important, community service and service to the world are equally critical to a well-rounded education. In fact, the Fordham website states, “True to its time-honored Jesuit traditions, Fordham endeavors to make excellence the focus of life, and the world the ‘home of the heart’ of every student.” To that end, the university offers numerous opportunities to students who would like to make a difference in the lives of others.
Global Outreach! is a student led organization that provides students with the chance to participate in domestic and global service projects in places ranging from South Africa to New Orleans. Fordham is also proud of its Consortium for Social Justice, which takes the lead on events that examine social justice concerns, and sponsors programs that help the disadvantaged. For example, the consortium’s 2010 Service Initiative focused on creating mentor programs for young people aging out of foster care in the Bronx. Eight student service clubs on the campus allow Fordham students to give back to society, from Haiti earthquake victims to AIDs victims.
Founded in 1841, Fordham University is a private four-year Jesuit university with 10 schools on three campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan, and nearby Westchester County. For undergraduates, Fordham offers the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Fordham College at Rose Hill, the Fordham College of Liberal Studies, and the Fordham Adult/Part-Time College. Fordham is also home to graduate programs in arts and sciences, education, law, business administration, religion and religious education, and social service.
Fordham students have a menu of international study options, including at the university’s centers abroad in London, Beijing and Granada. Fordham’s exchange programs provide year-long and semester-long studies in Japan, the Phillipines, China, Ireland, England, Italy, Spain, India and a number of countries. Fordham is one of 283 universities in the U.S. classified as research universities.
The main Fordham campus at Rose Hill is a green 93-acre campus in an urban setting. Fordham is proud of its student to teacher ratio of 13:1, and there are few large lecture hall classrooms here – almost half of Fordham’s classes have fewer than 20 students. Of its 699 faculty members, 382 are tenured and 95 percent hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Fordham has an extensive core curriculum, which can be a turn-off for students who want more flexibility in their schedules. The most popular majors at Fordham, according to U.S. News and World Report, are accounting, business administration and management, communication studies/speech communication and rhetoric, English language and literature, and psychology.
The university offers 67 majors in the following areas:
• Area, Ethnic, Cultural, & Gender Studies
• Visual and Performing Arts
• Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Business, Management, & Marketing
• Communications and Journalism
• Computer & Information Sciences
• English Language & Literature
• Foreign Language & Literature
• Health Professions & Clinical Sciences
• History
• Law and Legal Studies
• Mathematics
• Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Philosophy & Religion
• Physical Sciences
• Psychology
• Public Administration & Services
• Security & Protective Services
• Social Sciences
Fordham University Admissions
Fordham University is considered a selective university, with an overall acceptance rate of 49 percent and an early acceptance rate of 55.3 percent. Regular applications need to be submitted in January, and early acceptance deadline is usually in November. Fordham accepts scores for both the SAT and the ACT, and those are usually due in February. An average of 90 percent of all Fordham freshmen stay with the university, a clear indicator of student satisfaction, and 75 percent of all Fordham students end up graduating from the institution. Both the Rose Hill campus and the Lincoln Center campus offer dozens of campus tours to prospective students, and the Fordham website has a virtual tour available. Summer orientations are held for incoming students, and a three-day mandatory fall orientation is held every year to welcome new students. Commuting students are also treated to a Commuters Barbeque, and Family Weekend is held each September.
Financial Aid
Tuition at Fordham is relatively high, so if you’re hoping for financial aid, the university offers incoming freshmen merit scholarships in three categories: Presidential, Deans, and National Semifinalist. Recipients of Deans scholarships, which start at $10,000 a year, typically have an A or A- average, a minimum combined SAT score of 1350, a rank in the top 10% of his graduating class, and strong background of extracurricular activities. Fordham’s more competitive Presidential scholarships are awarded to students who rank in the top 1 to 2 percent of their class, score above a 1450 on the SAT, and showed strong leadership skills in high school. Presidential scholarships are usually awarded for all four years. Students who were National Merit, National Achievement or National Hispanic semifinalists and finalists might also qualify for scholarships. Fordham also has an extensive work study program for students who need the income while in school. Jobs are available in computer technology, the libraries, the Lombardi Center sports facility and pool, theater and visual arts, and transportation services.
STUDENT FINANCIAL AID DETAILS
Fordham University Students
A total of 6,678 undergraduates and graduate students attend classes on the 85-acre Rose Hill campus in the north Bronx, Of those students, almost half live in campus housing. At the Lincoln Center campus, located on eight acres next door to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, approximately 7,600 professional and undergraduate students attend classes, with 910 living in university housing. About 46.9 percent of Fordham’s students are male and 53.1 percent female. Although freshmen do not have to live on campus, the university is one of few in the U.S. that guarantees its students four years of campus housing. At Rose Hill, Fordham runs four on-campus residence halls for freshmen, six on-campus residence halls for upperclassmen, and furnished off-campus apartments at four locations close to the campus.
Minorities make up about 26 percent of the Fordham student population, and students hail from 47 states and 55 countries.
Because Fordham is in an urban area, it offers students transportation via the popular Ram Van, a shuttle bus that runs every 30 minutes and transports students between the Rose Hill, Lincoln Center and Westchester campuses. For that reason, Fordham students are able to easily enjoy everything that nearby Manhattan has to offer them. There is also a Metro North railroad station just outside the campus and the trip from Fordham to Grand Central station is a mere 15-minute ride.
McGinley Center on the Rose Hill campus provides students with food, offices, a post office, and a bookstore. The Lombardi Center (named after Vince Lombardi) is the school’s gymnasium, where basketball and volleyball are played. Football, lacrosse and rugby are played at the outdoor sports facility, Murphy Field. The campus is close to the Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Yankee Stadium and the Belmont section of the Bronx, also known as that borough’s Little Italy. Various services provided to Fordham students include a free writing center, health services, free counseling and psychotherapy, cultural clubs, LBGT resources and support, and support for disabled students.
The Rose Hill campus has six on-campus eateries, including the main dining hall, Campbell Hall Café, a coffee shop, student deli, a sit-down restaurant with table service, and a late-night grill that stays open until 1 a.m. Fordham has its own student newspaper, the Fordham Observer, and radio station, WFUV, which is widely listened to in the New York City metropolitan region. The student-produced TV program, Fordham Nightly News, or FNN, airs nightly on campus. The university offers dozens of student clubs and organizations ranging from academic clubs to theater and arts clubs, to service clubs like Amnesty International and Students for Fair Trade. Fordham has no Greek sororities or fraternities. Because Fordham is a Catholic Jesuit institution, rules about having overnight visitors are more stringent than some college campuses. And university policy prohibits the health center from dispensing birth control on the campus.
Athletics
The Fordham Rams have 23 intercollegiate teams to root for, including mens and womens basketball, football, track and field, volleyball, soccer, golf, outdoor track, rowing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, water polo and rowing. The Rams are part of the NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference, and the football team is part of the Division I Patriot League. The Rams men’s and women’s basketball teams, and the university football team, have a loyal following among students and alumni. Fordham also offers a wide selection of intramural teams for students, and club sports ranging from crew to ultimate Frisbee. The ultimate Frisbee team, founded in 1993, is called the Fordham Ultimate Flying Jesuits.
Fordham University Traditions
Fordham emphasizes that while academics are important, community service and service to the world are equally critical to a well-rounded education. In fact, the Fordham website states, “True to its time-honored Jesuit traditions, Fordham endeavors to make excellence the focus of life, and the world the ‘home of the heart’ of every student.” To that end, the university offers numerous opportunities to students who would like to make a difference in the lives of others.
Global Outreach! is a student led organization that provides students with the chance to participate in domestic and global service projects in places ranging from South Africa to New Orleans. Fordham is also proud of its Consortium for Social Justice, which takes the lead on events that examine social justice concerns, and sponsors programs that help the disadvantaged. For example, the consortium’s 2010 Service Initiative focused on creating mentor programs for young people aging out of foster care in the Bronx. Eight student service clubs on the campus allow Fordham students to give back to society, from Haiti earthquake victims to AIDs victims.
