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-- Rider University

www.rider.edu

• Enrollment: 3,000 undergraduate; 950 graduate
  
• Tuition and aid 
• % freshmen receiving financial aid: 66%
• % freshmen applicants admitted: 79%
  
• SAT score range: 1100-1320
  
• 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. Facing financial crisis which had led to its accreditation being suspended 2025 by Middle States Commission on Higher Education, took steps to improve its finances, including laying off up to 35 full-time faculty members and reducing salaries of most employees by 14%, and announcing  2026 sale of  portion of campus real estate to Mercer County for total $10 million.
Ranked #45 in Regional Universities North and #16 for best value institutions by U.S. News & World Report for 2026. 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 July 2019 termination of proposed controversial sale of Westminster to Kaiwen Education, a for-profit Chinese company. 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. 

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