Fordham University (New York City, New York)

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Fordham University is a co-educational private university in New York City. Founded in 1841 as St. John's College, Fordham University is currently one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

The University has 11 schools spread out on three campuses in and around New York City. Its main campus, Rose Hill, is in the Bronx and is home to the undergraduate Fordham College at Rose Hill and the College of Business Administration as well as the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Religion & Religious Education. The Lincoln Center Campus, in Manhattan, houses the undergraduate Fordham College at Lincoln Center as well as the School of Law, the Graduate School of Business Administration, the Graduate School of Education, and the Graduate School of Social Service. The Tarrytown Campus, in Westchester County, New York, houses the all-female Marymount College of Fordham University as well as being a venue for some MBA candidates. Marymount College will be phased out in 2007; however, the campus will remain active, supporting numerous programs and graduate schools. In addition, the undergraduate Fordham College of Liberal Studies holds classes on all three campuses, providing unconventional scheduling and the flexibility of multiple campuses in order to accommodate students who are employed full-time, or otherwise unable to take advantage of the offerings at the other undergraduate schools. The University also has a 113-acre biological field station, the Louis Calder Center, in Armonk, New York and a Graduate School of Business in Beijing, China.

Fordham is officially an independent institution, but strongly embraces its Jesuit heritage. "For most students, the Roman Catholic influence is positive," one reads in The Fiske Guide to Colleges 1998, "and many students say that the Jesuit tradition is the school's best attribute."

Fordham is listed as one of the top seventy national universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. In 2006, BusinessWeek magazine ranked Fordham's College of Business Administration 48th nationally in what it called "the most comprehensive ranking ever of U.S. undergraduate business programs." Fordham University School of Law was ranked 32 in the nation in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. Fordham Law is now the 15th most selective law school in the United States. In 2004, the Graduate School of Social Service was ranked 14th nationally by U.S. News & World Report.

In 2003, Fordham's enrollment included more than 8,000 undergraduate students across the three different schools at the Bronx, Lincoln Center, and Marymount (Tarrytown) campuses, as well as more than 7,000 graduate students. Fordham awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.


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