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?

• 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.
• Students at Rider have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 1%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at Rider is the doctor's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 43% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Rider with a bachelor's degree make about $59,215 a year. That's 45% more than those who graduate from 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?

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

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	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Required
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Neither required nor recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Rider?

The acceptance rate at Rider University is 82%. This means that is not quite as selective as some schools, but you'll still need to submit a good application if you want to be considered by the admissions department.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 82%, and the acceptance rate for women is 82%.

Average Test Scores

About 20% 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 530 and 640. Math scores were between 520 and 630.

Rider received ACT scores from 4% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 25 and 34. Math scores were between 23 and 29. Composite scores were between 28 and 31.

Can I Afford Rider University?

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 63% of students took out student loans averaging $8,129 a year. That adds up to $32,516 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Rider is 1.3%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Rider University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,222 undergraduate students at Rider, with 3,005 being full-time and 217 being part-time.

There are also 982 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,005 full-time undergraduates at Rider, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	173
Black or African American	442
Hispanic or Latino	547
White	1,623
International Students	72
Other Races/Ethnicities	148

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.

Online Learning at Rider University

There are 6 bachelor’s degree and 15 master’s degree programs available online at Rider. In 2020-2021, 893 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Rider has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 7th most popular in New Jersey for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Rider

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Rider University was 19.1%. This is the #1,093 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Rider regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Magneticcarpet under License

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