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Find your future here

At Rider, you'll find:

  • Small, interactive classes that engage you in creating solutions, provide access to industry-standard equipment and offer opportunities for exceptional mentoring and career guidance.
  • Early opportunities to work alongside faculty to take part in research, present research at regional and national meetings and co-author published, peer-reviewed manuscripts.
  • Exceptional fieldwork experiences that can take you from Rider’s own Centennial Lake to the Rocky Mountains and to the Galapagos Islands.
  • The Classroom Visitation Program that lets you sit in on upper-level science, math and tech courses to further explore your interests and help you with declaring your science major.

Explore our science, tech and math majors

At Rider, close student-faculty collaboration and interaction lead to the best ideas, most satisfying learning experiences and greatest student success.

Which major interests you?

  • Actuarial Science, B.S.
  • Behavioral Neuroscience, B.S.
  • Biochemistry, B.S.
  • Biology, B.S. or B.A.
  • Chemistry, B.S. or B.A.
  • Computer Science, B.S.
  • Cybersecurity, B.S.
  • Earth Sciences, B.A.
  • Environmental Sciences, B.S.
  • Environmental Studies, B.A.
  • Exercise Science, B.S.
  • Health Sciences, B.S.
  • Mathematics, B.A.

Why choose Rider

The hands-on learning you’ll have at Rider will give you a true competitive edge — whether you’re applying for a job, graduate school or medical school.

50+

students perform independent research and work with faculty in the lab and the field each year

75+

student-faculty professional presentations each year

$1.4M

in active research grants, including from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation

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Where will your journey lead?

Recent graduates are pursuing their Ph.D. in fields such as developmental biology, evolution and ecology, neuroscience, biomedical sciences, marine biotechnology, mathematical biology, and mathematical tomography.

Dan Hewins

Dan Hewins

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta
"Rider's faculty is more interested in bringing students into their research than elsewhere....At Rider I wasn’t just another faceless student."
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Imani Guest

Imani Guest

Doctoral Student/Researcher, Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown University
"I’m where I am now because of the great education, research and field experiences I had at Rider. That early research I did had a domino effect, leading to more research opportunities at Rider and in Hawaii and helping me get into one of the nation’s top-ranked programs."
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Lauren Musumeci

Lauren Musumeci

R&D Manager, PepsiCo
"It’s uncommon for all undergraduates to do independent research at larger universities. You learn a lot outside of the classroom which definitely translates into my master’s work and going into the work force."
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