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Rider University Overview

Located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Rider University is a private not-for-profit institution. Lawrenceville is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Rider University Known For?

777 Undergraduate Awards
$41,110 Avg Cost After Aid
84% Acceptance Rate
  • Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Rider since the student to facuty ratio is 10 to 1.
  • The highest award offered at Rider is the doctor's degree.
  • In a recent academic period46% of the faculty were full-time.
  • After graduation, Rider bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $62,208 a year. That's about 52% more than their peers at other schools.
  • It takes the average Rider student 4.1 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Rider University?

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Contact details for Rider are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099
Phone: 609-896-5000
Website: www.rider.edu

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How Do I Get Into Rider?

You can apply to Rider online at: https://www.rider.edu/admissions/apply

Admission Requirements for Rider

Submission Required?
High School GPA 1
High School Rank 3
High School Transcript 1
College Prep Program 1
Recommendations 1
SAT or ACT Scores 5
TOEFL 3

How Hard Is It To Get Into Rider?

84% Acceptance Rate
61% Of Accepted Are Women
17% Submit SAT Scores
Rider has an acceptance rate of 84%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 84%, and the acceptance rate for women is 84%.

Average Test Scores

About 17% of students accepted to Rider submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 560 and 650. Math scores were between 540 and 650.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Rider University  ( 560 to 650 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Rider University  ( 540 to 650 )
200
800
Rider received ACT scores from 2% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 21 and 29. Math scores were between 20 and 0. Composite scores were between 21 and 29.

ACT English Scores for Rider University  ( 21 to 29 )
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36
ACT Composite Scores for Rider University  ( 21 to 29 )
1
36

Can I Afford Rider University?

$41,110 Net Price
66% Take Out Loans
The overall average net price of Rider is $41,110. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Rider, approximately 66% of students took out student loans averaging $9,061 a year. That adds up to $36,244 over four years for those students.

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Rider University Undergraduate Student Diversity

3,279 Full-Time Undergraduates
58% Women
41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 3,630 undergraduate students at Rider, with 3,279 being full-time and 351 being part-time.

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There are also 1,006 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,279 full-time undergraduates at Rider, 42% are male and 58% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Rider University students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 176
Black or African American 454
Hispanic or Latino 597
White 1,786
International Students 68
Other Races/Ethnicities 198

Geographic Diversity

New Jersey students aren't the only ones who study at Rider University. At this time, 25 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 63 countries are represented at Rider. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Colombia, and Turkey.

Rider University Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major Basic Certificate Associate’s Bachelor’s Graduate Certificate Master’s Doctor’s TOTAL
Business Administration & Management 0 0 66 0 121 0 187
Teacher Education Grade Specific 0 0 78 33 42 0 153
Accounting 0 0 39 0 49 0 88
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 0 0 6 49 24 0 79
General Psychology 0 0 74 0 0 0 74
Educational Administration 0 0 0 28 14 13 55
Music 0 0 31 0 24 0 55
Finance & Financial Management 0 0 49 0 0 0 49
Criminal Justice & Corrections 0 0 40 0 0 0 40
Teacher Education Subject Specific 0 0 11 15 11 0 37
Marketing 0 0 34 0 0 0 34
Mental & Social Health Services 0 0 0 7 26 0 33
Special Education 0 0 0 22 10 0 32
Public Relations & Advertising 0 0 18 0 13 0 31
Human Resource Management 0 0 21 0 0 0 21
Health Sciences & Services 0 0 21 0 0 0 21
Design & Applied Arts 0 0 20 0 0 0 20
Computer Science 0 0 19 0 0 0 19
Student Counseling 0 0 0 7 12 0 19
Dance 0 0 19 0 0 0 19
General Biology 0 0 18 0 0 0 18
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 0 0 18 0 0 0 18
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 0 0 17 0 0 0 17
Political Science & Government 0 0 17 0 0 0 17
Computer Software & Applications 0 0 13 0 0 0 13
Liberal Arts General Studies 0 5 8 0 0 0 13
General English Literature 0 0 11 0 0 0 11
Information Technology 0 0 0 0 10 0 10
History 0 0 10 0 0 0 10
Geological & Earth Sciences 0 0 10 0 0 0 10
Entrepreneurial Studies 0 0 9 0 0 0 9
Public Health 0 0 9 0 0 0 9
Homeland Security 0 0 0 0 9 0 9
Teaching English or French 0 0 0 8 0 0 8
Security Science and Technology 0 0 6 0 2 0 8
Other Agriculture 7 0 0 0 0 0 7
Communication & Media Studies 0 0 7 0 0 0 7
Computer Information Systems 0 0 7 0 0 0 7
Natural Resources Conservation 0 0 7 0 0 0 7
Arts & Media Management 0 0 7 0 0 0 7
Journalism 0 0 6 0 0 0 6
Health & Physical Education 0 0 6 0 0 0 6
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 0 0 5 0 0 0 5
Sociology 0 0 5 0 0 0 5
Nursing 0 0 3 0 1 0 4
Biopsychology 0 0 4 0 0 0 4
Romance Languages 0 0 3 0 0 0 3
Mathematics 0 0 3 0 0 0 3
Chemistry 0 0 3 0 0 0 3
Business/Managerial Economics 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
Public Policy 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
Drama & Theater Arts 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
Area Studies 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
International Business 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Management Information Systems 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Curriculum & Instruction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Educational Assessment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Writing Studies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic Languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philosophy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
International Relations & National Security 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Public Administration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Social Work 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sacred Music 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fine & Studio Arts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 7 5 765 169 368 13 1,327

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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