History

On Campus

Two campuses in Lawrenceville and Princeton, New Jersey within easy driving distance of both Philadelphia and New York City.

• All residence halls equipped with voice, video, and data service. Students can e-mail professors and access Moore Library's Voyager system and the Internet from their rooms.
   
• 41 buildings, athletic fields, tennis courts, indoor swimming pool, and lake reside on the 280-acre Lawrenceville campus. Thirteen buildings are on the 23-acre campus in Princeton.
   
• Rider is currently investing $16 million in new campus renovation and construction projects. Phase I of Rider’s student-centered Master Plan includes construction of a new Student Recreation Center, a striking campus quadrant featuring both new and renovated residence halls, and select campus landscaping.
   
• Moore Library contains more than 400,000 volumes, 2,000 microfilm reels, 1,079 periodicals, 639,000 microforms, and an audiovisual collection. Extensive music holdings can be found at the Westminster Choir College Talbott Library.

Student Life

Students - 5,790
3,764 full-time undergraduate
822 part-time undergraduate
1,204 graduate students studying on both campuses

• More than 1,000 student internships or field experiences, community service learning placements, and undergraduate research fellowships.
   
• 93% of Rider graduates are employed full time or undertaking advanced education.
   
• Westminster’s internationally acclaimed choirs perform with world-famous orchestras and conductors in the United States and abroad.
   
• Baccalaureate Honors Program and departmental Honors Programs.
   
• Study Abroad Programs are available in more than 21 countries.
   
• Sports: Twenty – 10 men’s and 10 women’s – National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams. Member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).
   
• Active program of intramural sports.
   
• Mascot—Broncs.
   
• School colors—Cranberry and white.
   
• Academic Distinction
   
• Four academic colleges – the College of Business Administration; the College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; the College of Continuing Studies; and Westminster College of the Arts.
   
• 60 undergraduate programs; 18 graduate programs.
   
• Ranked in the top tier of northern regional universities by U.S. News and World Report and ranked among the top college in recent editions of The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges.
   
• Ninety-six percent of Rider’s 236 full-time faculty hold doctoral degrees or the highest credential in their field. Twelve have been named Fulbright Scholars.
   
• Rider is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. It is also on the approved list of the American Association of University Women and of the American Chemical Society.
   
• Student/Faculty Ratio 13:1.
   
• The University also holds specialized accreditation with these prestigious educational organizations:
  • AACSB International International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) – Rider is one of only 482 business schools worldwide to hold this distinction and one of only two New Jersey colleges to hold the additional specialized AACSB International accreditation in accounting.
  • NCATE – Rider is one of only five schools in New Jersey to be accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
  • NASM – Westminster Choir College is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
  • CACREP – Rider’s graduate program in counseling services holds national accreditation from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs.
  • NASP - The School Psychology Program is one of three in the state of New Jersey to be fully approved by the National Accreditation of School Psychologists.