Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
609-896-5000
Princeton Campus
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540
Private
Non-sectarian
Undergraduate & Graduate
Coeducational
Undergraduate tuition and fees: $24,790
Room/board: $9,280
The next year women were admitted to the school and in 1897 the school was renamed The Rider Business College. In 1957 Rider introduced liberal studies leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree.
In 1994, the New Jersey Board of Higher Education designated Rider a teaching university and Rider's name was officially changed to Rider University.
Rider University is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The school's Westminster Choir College is located nearby in the Borough of Princeton. The 353-acre Lawrenceville campus is in a suburban area three miles north of Trenton and five miles south of Princeton.
The university consists of four academic colleges - the College of Business Administration, the College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences, the College of Continuing Studies, and Westminster Choir College.
Westminster Choir College is the only college of its kind in the world. Westminster's undergraduate and graduate programs are led by world-class music professionals and will prepare you for music leadership careers as performers, educators, conductors, and choir directors.
Rider has 3,611 full-time undergraduates, 764 part-time undergraduates, and 1,204 graduate students.
Rider has 234 full-time and 267 part-time faculty members.
The student to faculty ratio is 13:1.
Universities-Master's (North): 31
Overall score: 55
Average freshman retention rate: 79%
2006 graduation rate: (Predicted) 61%
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