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  • Enrollment: 4,094 undergraduate; 950 graduate
  • Costs 2018-19: tuition $42,120; room & board $15,280
  • % freshmen receiving financial aid: 66%
  • % freshmen applicants admitted: 67%
  • SAT score range: Critical reading 500-600; Math 490-590
  • Student-faculty ratio: 11 to 1
  • Graduation rate (within 6 years of enrolling): 65%
  • Median salary (10 years after enrolling): $50,600
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Founded 1865 as Trenton Business College with first president Andrew Jackson Rider, relocated campus to Lawrenceville in 1959, now site of 350-acre main campus in Lawrenceville. Five academic units: College of Business Administration, College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences, College of Continuing Studies, and  Westminster College of the Arts. Westminster Choir College, prominent music conservatory with programs including music-teacher training, vocal and instrumental performance, sacred music, and research, with 23-acre site in Princeton, formerly independent school until 1992 merger with Rider, which announced proposed controversial sale of Westminster effective July 2019 to Kaiwen Education, a for-profit Chinese company partially owned by Chinese government, litigation instituted by alumni, faculty and others seeks to block sale. 70 undergraduate programs and 35 graduate programs. Ranked tied for #35 in Regional Universities North and #36 in Best Value Schools in 2019 US News & World Report Best Colleges. Data Analytics Lab opened December 2018, centerpiece of $4.3 million renovation project to College of Business Administration. Announced new 2019 Bachelor of Arts in Game and Interactive Media Design, with courses in video game design, storytelling and development. Noted alumni include Richard (Digger) Phelps, broadcaster and former University of Notre Dame basketball coach; Harry Gamble, past president of Philadelphia Eagles; William Mastrosimone, playwright. 
*  All-Out Efforts to Block Rider’s Sale of Westminster Choir College to Chinese, 1/9/2019, NJ Spotlight

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