Enrollment: 7652
Average SAT: 599
Average ACT: 26
Most Popular Majors: Business/Commerce, General,Communication and Media Studies, Other,Social Sciences, General,
Regular Application Deadline: 01/15
Student Faculty Ratio: 12:1

Undergraduate Receiving Need-Based Financial Aid: 32
Average Freshman Total Need-Based Gift Aid: $14,783.00

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School Says - General Information
Founded in 1841, Fordham is a world-renowned Jesuit, Catholic university with two campuses in New York City. In our programs and policies, we draw on the nearly 500-year history of the Jesuits, a distinguished, intellectual and spiritual community within the Catholic Church. We offer numerous academic challenges and expect excellence; we care for the whole person; we ask the members of our community to be men and women for othersÂâ€"to put their education in service to the common good.

School Says - Student Body
Fordham students run 135 clubs and organizationsÂâ€"award-winning newspapers and celebrated musical groups, ambitious academic societies and vibrant cultural groups. A few examples: Mimes and Mummers is one of the nation's oldest collegiate theatrical troupes. Our top-ranked Fordham Debate Society is the eighth oldest collegiate debate society in the United States.

Fordham claims a proud history of intercollegiate athletic competition. We support 22 NCAA Division I teams; cheerleading; seven club teams, including our league champion ice hockey team; a spirited intramural program; and many recreational programs.

School Says - Academics
The University offers numerous programs and services to expand the minds and hearts of students. Academic advising at Fordham puts into practice the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, the care of the whole person.

The Service-Learning Program allows students to integrate serious scholarship with civic action.

The 3-3 Law Program permits qualified students to transfer to Fordham's top-ranked school of Law after three years of undergraduate study.

The Pre-Medical and Pre-Health Professions Advising Program claims a proud history of guiding students into the country's finest medical schools; boasting a 90 percent acceptance rate for a recent graduating class.

FordhamÂ's extensive relationships with firms and organizations provide 2,600 internship opportunities every year.

The University offers access to year-long, semester-long and summer study abroad programs in more than 50 countries, on six continents including the London School of Economics and La Sorbonne in Paris.

The Manresa Program is a living-learning opportunity for freshmen, who live and study together in the newly renovated Tierney Hall, engage with faculty in interactive seminars and participate in activities that nurture the development of the whole person.

The University's Honors Programs are intentionally small, unabashedly intense and deeply supportive of exceptional academic ability.

School Says - Admissions
Admission to Fordham is highly selective. We consider our applicants' academic records, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, co-curricular activities and admission essaysÂâ€"not in isolation, but as parts of a unified whole. This information helps to convey what applicants might do at Fordham, how Fordham might help them and how they might contribute to the community. Applicants can complete and deliver an application online or through the mail. You can apply in one of two ways: Regular Decision or Early Action. Freshman applicants should complete four years of high school English, three to four years of science, three to four years of math, three to four years of social studies and two to three years of a foreign language. Students who want to pursue a math, science, or pre-medical curriculum should have at least four years of math and one each of physics and chemistry. Business students should have four years of college preparatory mathematics. Most successful candidates will have maintained an A/A- average.

School Says - Campus Life
Fordham's Rose Hill campus is located in the Bronx, one of New York's most diverse, multifaceted boroughs; only a 20-minute ride from Grand Central Terminal. The quintessential college campus is spread across 85 green, leafy acres, with several athletic fields and distinguished Gothic buildings.

Fordham's Lincoln Center campus is located in midtown Manhattan, in one of the nation's premier cultural destinations. Situated on eight landscaped acres, the campus is adjacent to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and a few blocks from Central Park, Columbus Circle and the headquarters of major media corporations.

School Says - Cost Aid
Tuition for the academic year 2008Ââ€"2009: $34,200; Room and board: $12,290 for double occupancy, including meal plan. For more information, visit www.fordham.edu/tuition.As a Jesuit University, Fordham is committed to providing an outstanding education to qualified students. We try our best to support students and families who donÂ't have the resources to pay our full tuition. Fordham also claims a long tradition of welcoming and supporting first-generation college students. More than 80 percent of our students typically receive some form of financial aid including both need-based and merit-based aid.

Fall freshman applicants should file the FAFSA and CSS Profile forms by February 1. Spring freshman applicants should file by November 1.

Students Say - Academics
Fordham University is two schools in one. First, there's the school's long-established campus in the Rose Hill section of the Bronx, which might best be regarded as Fordham's 'conventional' undergraduate site. Then there's the newer campus at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, which is "very small and geared toward theater and dance students [though the school says the largest number of majors is liberal arts]." Students are adamant that "they are two different schools going in different directions with different student bodies and different academic focuses." The campuses do share a number of common traits, however. Each is a Jesuit school "with really big core requirements" that provide undergrads with "a strong background in a broad area of academics before actually specializing in one area, thereby educating the whole mind." The Jesuit influence is also seen in the way each school "promotes social awareness, caring for others, and expanding one's knowledge of the world and helping find one's contribution to it." Each school, of course, benefits from a city location that provides near limitless opportunities for networking, internships, and enriching extracurricular experiences. Rose Hill's students praise Fordham's College of Business ("the school for business professionals"), its pre-law and pre-medical programs, and its psychology program; undergrads at Lincoln Center boast of "one of the best theater departments in the country" and "a great dance program."

Students Say - Campus Life
Fordham's Rose Hill Campus "is truly beautiful, and the location is pretty much the best of both worlds-the city as well as plenty of green." Here, "life centers around the weekends. Most people go out to local bars, leaving no one on campus on a Tuesday, Friday, or Saturday night...There are numerous events going on on campus all the time, although many of these events are based in religion or politics." Students are also "very involved...in intramural sports teams as well as performing arts groups." There's also the city, of course; you can reach it in 15 minutes by Metro North train, or you can save a few bucks and ride the subway. Expect the trip downtown to take about 30 minutes. Closer by is Arthur Avenue, the Bronx's own (and, many say, much better) version of Manhattan's Little Italy. Life at Lincoln Center is understandably less campus-centric; no campus can compete with all that downtown New York City has to offer. One student explains, "The bar and restaurant scene at Lincoln Center is very popular because of the variety of places to go in Manhattan. Dorm parties are not as usual as I would imagine them to be at other colleges. Students from all...of Fordham come to Lincoln Center to set out for their various night activities because of the campus's proximity to everything...I try to take advantage of the incredible amount of things to do here that one isn't able to do in most other places, but things are very expensive." Lincoln Center dorms "are like apartments, which I know is a definite attraction for many students."

Students Say - Student Body
Students on the Rose Hill campus tend to be "from an upper-class home in New Jersey, Connecticut, or Long Island[and] wear sandals and jeans and polos, with some popped collars sprinkled in...Off campus (in the Bronx) they stick out like a sore thumb." Many are business and communications majors who favor conservative politics and a businesslike approach to academics. Students at Lincoln Center are more diverse; one writes, "there is no such thing as a typical student at Lincoln Center. Most students who choose to go here are liberal and artsy (writers, dancers, actors). Students tend to be very creative in their clothing choices." The majority of students here are women, and "most of the boys are gay."

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