About Rider University
Rider's enrollment of more than 5,000 consists of approximately 4,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and almost 1,000 graduate students studying on campuses in Lawrenceville and Princeton, New Jersey.
The University is comprised of four academic units - the College of Business Administration; the College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; the College of Continuing Studies; and Westminster College of the Arts- and offers undergraduate programs in 60 areas and graduate programs in 17 specialties.
Ninety-six percent of Rider's 236 full-time faculty hold doctoral degrees or the highest credential in their field. Rider's faculty are award winning teachers and researchers dedicated to excellence in teaching, learning and scholarship and 12 have been named Fulbright Scholars. Rider's classes are small and interactive with a student-faculty ratio of 13:1. Rider's curricula balance theory and practice, and emphasize learning by doing through more than 1,000 student internships or field experiences, community service learning placements, and undergraduate research fellowships.
Westminster's internationally acclaimed choirs perform with world-famous orchestras and conductors in the United States and abroad, further demonstrating Rider's commitment to experiential learning. Rider is currently ranked in the top tier of northern regional universities under the designation of "Best Universities - Master's" by U.S. News and World Report and has been included in the last nine editions of The Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges, its list of the nation's top 10 percent of colleges and universities.
The University's many specialized accreditations attest to the quality of its academic programs. Rider is among the select business schools to have attained AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditation and one of only two schools in New Jersey to hold the specialized AACSB accreditation in accounting. Elementary and secondary education programs and their applicable graduate programs on both campuses are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
The undergraduate and graduate music programs of Westminster Choir College are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). In addition, Rider's graduate counseling services program in the School of Education holds the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) national accreditation. Rider University is regionally accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Rider University is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I for both men's and women's athletics. The University offers 20 varsity sports - 10 men's and 10 women's teams - 19 in the competitive Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) with wrestling in the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL).
