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Regional
(U.S. News & World Report, 2024)
the place
THIS IS TO FIND your place.
WHEN YOU ARE A RIDER BRONC, you are free to engage, free to change and free to explore. That might mean studying subjects you’ve loved for years. Or following one interest to the next until you arrive exactly where you were meant to be. There are so many possibilities ahead, and all you have to do is take the first step with us.
to wander, discover and learn by heart (including a 2.7-acre lake!)
A CAMPUS great
AND SMALL.
OUR HOME IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY is central to so much more. The Rider campus is a train ride from Philadelphia and New York City, minutes from historic Princeton and just an hour from the beach.
3,196 undergraduates (that’s a lot of new friends)
1 in 4 undergraduate students is first-generation to college, so everyone can feel at home here
lone Bronc. no such thing THERE’S AS A
100+
Annual student performances
500+ Annual events for the life of the party
150+ Student organizations for the community leader
20+ Intramural and club sports teams for the team player
WILD. A CROWD BRONCS MAKE
work. Learn TO LOVE THE
100% of four-year Rider students complete at least two high-impact Engaged Learning experiences (in fact, we require it!)
18 students
in the average Rider class, so your professors will always know your name
“ Internships played a key role in my time at Rider as they provided me with a broader perspective of what I wanted to pursue after obtaining my degree. ”
Karla Lopez-Rosa ’23 Political science major Constituent service representative and district office internship coordinator, office of Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
Success is personal, and our majors are too.
60+ undergraduate majors
AT RIDER, finance majors fall in love with poetry, bio students go on to get doctorates and musical theatre enthusiasts continue on to Broadway. Because here, majors lead to internships, graduate school, career opportunities and new interests you haven’t even imagined yet.
Browse Rider’s majors, minors and programs in . . .
» Arts
» Business
» Communication and media
» Education
» Humanities and social sciences
» Science, technology and mathematics
RIDER.EDU/PROGRAMS
7 fifth-year graduate options make it easy to get your master’s
900+
Rider alums are CEOs, presidents and organizational leaders
400+
We build CONFIDENCE AND
employers have hired Rider’s Class of 2023 graduates
careers
9 in 10
Broncs are employed, in graduate school, volunteering or in the military within one year of graduation
Rider students have launched their careers at:
» Deloitte
» Ernst & Young
» ESPN
» ExxonMobil
» Johnson & Johnson
» JP Morgan Chase & Co.
» N.J. State Police Forensic Anthropology Lab
» New York Mets
» Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
» The Walt Disney Company
. . . and hundreds of other places.
IF YOU LEARN ONE THING ABOUT RIDER, WE WANT IT TO BE THIS: Your goals are within reach. The proof is in our alumni who use what they’ve learned to make their unique marks on the world. The proof is in our students, who begin here as striving freshmen and depart with newfound confidence and a career game plan. And the proof is in prospective Broncs, like you, who are determined to create a future that feels true to them.
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099 USA