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                              -- New Jersey Higher Education - Saint Peter's University


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  • Enrollment: 2,637 undergraduate; 887 graduate
  • Costs 2018-19: tuition $37,486; room & board $15,414
  • % freshmen receiving financial aid: 59%
  • % freshmen applicants admitted: 71%
  • SAT score range: Critical reading 410-510; Math 420-520
  • Student-faculty ratio: 13 to 1
  • Graduation rate (within 6 years of enrolling): 54%
  • Median salary (10 years after enrolling): $45,800
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Founded 1872, one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in US and only one in NJ. Main campus in Jersey City, Meadowlands Campus in Lyndhurst. Ranked highest in NJ and #12 overall for Best Value in Regional Universities North in  2019 US News & World Report Best Colleges; #8 in US in 2017 study by  Equality of Opportunity Project, for “Highest Mobility Rate” for improving student economic status, student body 40% Hispanic, 20% Black. Most popular majors, Business, Management, Marketing; Health Professions; Criminal Justice. $64.7 million capital campaign supported construction of Mac Mahon Student Center. Announced 2018 gift of $10 million. largest in its history, from Joseph A. Panepinto, Esq. alumnus and trustee and CEO of Jersey City-based Panepinto Properties real estate development firm. supported expanded undergraduate and graduate programs, institution’s first doctoral programs and established School of Business, School of Nursing and School of Education. Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership sponsors lectures, programs and debates to encourage critical thinking and debate on public policy issues, named after former NJ Congressman Frank Guarini,. also administers United Nations programs and provides Washington Center Internships for experiences on Capitol Hill. Dr. Eugene Cornacchia appointed 2007 as 22nd President of Saint Peter's, first layperson to serve as President. Alumni include author and Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Will Durant; US Senator Robert Menendez; Chief of Staff to President Woodrow Wilson Joseph Patrick Tumulty; Basketball Hall of Fame basketball coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City Bob Hurley; President & CEO, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NJ; William Marino. 

*  Best Colleges, US News & World Report
*  College Scorecard, US Department of Education
*  College Navigator, National Center for Education Statistics
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