Фордемский университет

Fordham has three main campuses, which are located in and around New York City: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and Westchester in West Harrison. In addition, it maintains and utilizes various academic, extracurricular and residential facilities throughout New York City and New York State and around the world. 

Fordham operates the Louis Calder Center, a biological field station 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City in Armonk, New York. It consists of 114 acres (0.46 km2) forested with a 40,000 m2 lake and 19 buildings. The structures house laboratories and classrooms, offices for faculty and administrators, a library and residences.

Besides, the university's facilities include housing and dining options, recreation center, sports and many others.

Fordham sponsors over 200 clubs and organizations for its undergraduate and graduate students, of which about 100 are based at the Rose Hill campus and the rest are based at the Lincoln Center and Westchester campuses.

However, there are no any Greek letter fraternities or sororities. Councils of the Knights of Columbus, the national Catholic service fraternity for men, and its sister organization, the Columbiettes, are hosted on campus. In addition, Fordham sponsors a chapter of Pershing Rifles, the national military fraternity.

The university has its own student-run award-winning newspaper called The Observer, while The Ram is the university's journal of record, and the paper, which is a student-run free-speech publication.

Besides, the New York city is one of the world’s recreation and shopping centers. There are always fun things to do in the Bronx. Students can check out the Botanical Garden, The Bronx Zoo, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts etc. The city is only 20 minutes away on the D train. 

Student housing is guaranteed for four years for students at both Rose Hill and Lincoln Center; housing options include dorm-style single, double, and triple rooms, as well as apartments and suites.

Most graduate students live off-campus, either in Manhattan or in other boroughs of New York City or in New Jersey. An excellent public transportation network makes it easy to travel into and within New York City. 

Students also use a range of other web-based services such as Craigslist, Street Easy or Airbnb to locate housing.

84% of students are employed, freelancing, or continuing their education six months after graduation in 2016. Among top employers are such world-known companies as Sony Music Entertainment, Societe Generale, JPMorgan Chase & Co.,Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Citigroup Inc.

Annual starting salary of Fordham graduates is about $55,000. Graduates’ leading industries are Financial Services, Media and Communications, Arts, Leisure, and Entertainment.

Fordham Career Services Center helps students to build a foundation that will help them excel in their career of choice through increasing awareness about yourself and the world of work, learning how to prepare for a career and developing the presentation skills students need to secure a job.

Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $73,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $50,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,500, room and board - $18,000, personal and transportation costs - $3,500.

Founded in 1841, Fordham is a world-renowned Jesuit, Catholic university with two campuses in New York City. Its global and diverse community is steeped in the nearly 500-year history of the Jesuits, a religious order with an international reputation as intellectuals and professional educators. The Jesuit tradition emphasizes academic excellence, care for the whole person and social justice. The university welcomes people of all faiths and of no faith, students who want to be men and women for others, to use their education to serve the common good.

Fordham's academic ideals are drawn from its Jesuit influences. The university promotes the Jesuit principles of fostering a faculty and administrative respect for the individual student and all of his or her gifts and abilities; encouraging students to challenge themselves and strive for excellence in their lives.

Ten different colleges make up Fordham University – four of which are for undergraduates while six are for postgraduates. These include: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees, as well as the various master's and doctoral degrees. The university, however, is most renowned for its humanities programs.  Among Fordham’s graduate degrees is the Fordham School of Law, which is in fact home to the first Fashion Law Institute in the country.

Fordham University is considered a research university and facilities are available on campus to facilitate this. Buildings include the Louis Calder Centre – a 114-acre biological field station – the William Spain Seismic Observatory, and a data collection unit for the US Geological Survey. Many faculty of Fordham have conducted research with other institutions across the country such as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre. The libraries at Fordham University are huge, containing more than two million volumes, periodicals and electronic journals. Moreover, it is also a depository for United States Government documents.

The 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report lists Fordham as a "more selective" national university and ranks it tied for the 60th in this category. Forbes America's Top Colleges 2016 report ranked Fordham the 145th.

Notable people who attended Fordham include Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr., an American actor, filmmaker, director, and producer,  Donald J. Trump, the President-elect of the United States of America. Business and finance magnates that have attended Fordham include Anne M. Mulcahy, retired Chairperson and CEO of Xerox and named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" in 2006 by Fortune Magazine; Rose Marie Bravo, Vice Chairman and former CEO of Burberry and named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business Outside the United States" in 2004 and 2005 by Fortune Magazine.

The university has very wide program selection with 95 undergraduate programs.

Fordham University School of Law is currently ranked the 37th in the United States, while graduate programs in business, English, history, social work, education, and sociology are ranked among the top 100 in the nation.

The most popular majors by the number of registered students are business/marketing, social sciences, communications/journalism, psychology, business administration and management, speech communication and rhetoric.