Fordham University

Fordham University
Latin: Universitas Fordhamensis[1]
Former names
St. John's College (1841–1907)
Marymount College (1907–2002)
MottoSapientia et Doctrina (Latin)
Motto in English
"Wisdom and Learning"
TypePrivate research university
EstablishedJune 24, 1841; 183 years ago (1841-06-24)
FounderJohn Hughes
AccreditationMSCHE
Religious affiliation
Catholic (Jesuit)[2]
Academic affiliations
Endowment$972 million (2023)[3]
PresidentTania Tetlow[4]
ProvostDennis C. Jacobs
Academic staff
747[5]
Students16,556[6] (fall 2022)
Undergraduates9,904[7]
Postgraduates7,082[7]
Location
New York
,
New York
,
United States

40°51′43″N 73°53′10″W / 40.86194°N 73.88611°W / 40.86194; -73.88611
CampusLarge city, Total: 125.39 acres (50.7 ha); Rose Hill (Bronx): 85 acres (34.4 ha);[8] Lincoln Center (Manhattan): 8 acres (3.2 ha)[8]
Other campuses
Newspaper
ColorsMaroon and white[10]
   
NicknameRams
Sporting affiliations
MascotThe Ram
Websitefordham.edu Edit this at Wikidata

Fordham University (/ˈfɔːrdəm/) is a private Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the northeastern United States[11] and the third-oldest university in New York State.[12]

Founded as St. John's College by John Hughes, then a coadjutor bishop of New York, the college was placed in the care of the Society of Jesus shortly thereafter, and has since become a Jesuit-affiliated independent school under a lay board of trustees. While governed independently of the church since 1969, every president of Fordham University between 1846 and 2022[note 1] was a Jesuit priest, and the curriculum remains influenced by Jesuit educational principles.[13]

Fordham enrolls approximately 15,300 students from more than 65 countries,[14] and is composed of ten constituent colleges, four of which are undergraduate and six of which are postgraduate, across three campuses in southern New York State: the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, the Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan's Upper West Side, and the Westchester campus in West Harrison, New York. In addition to these locations, the university maintains a study abroad center in London and field offices in Spain and South Africa. The university offers degrees in over 60 disciplines.[15]

The university's athletic teams, the Rams, include a football team that boasted a win in the Sugar Bowl, two Pro Football Hall of Famers, two All-Americans, two Canadian Football League All-Stars, and numerous NFL players; the Rams also participated in history's first televised college football game in 1939 and history's first televised college basketball game in 1940.[16][17] Fordham's baseball team played the first collegiate baseball game under modern rules in 1859, has fielded 56 major league players, and holds the record for most NCAA Division I baseball victories in history.[18]

Fordham's alumni and faculty include former President Donald Trump,[note 2][19] U.S. Senators and representatives, four cardinals of the Catholic Church, several U.S. governors and ambassadors, a number of billionaires, two directors of the CIA, Academy Award and Emmy-winning actors, royalty, a foreign head of state, a White House Counsel, a vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army,[20] a U.S. Postmaster General,[21] a U.S. Attorney General,[22] a President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,[23] and the first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party in the United States.

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  3. ^ As of June 30, 2023. "U.S. and Canadian 2023 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2023 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY22 to FY23, and FY23 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student" (XLSX). National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and TIAA. February 15, 2024. Archived from the original on May 23, 2024. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
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  10. ^ "Fordham Colors". Fordham University Marketing and Communications. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  11. ^ Kurian & Lamport 2015, p. 510.
  12. ^ Shelley 2016, p. 20.
  13. ^ "Fordham Presidents". Fordham University Libraries. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
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  15. ^ "Majors and Minors". Fordham University. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  16. ^ "Fordham Appeared in First Televised College Basketball Game". Fordhamsports.com. February 27, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
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  19. ^ Strauss, Valerie (July 17, 2015). "Yes, Donald Trump really went to an Ivy League school". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  20. ^ "General Jack Keane (bio)". Principles of War Seminar Series. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Archived from the original on March 4, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2007.
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  23. ^ Roberts, Sam (May 25, 2022). "E. Gerald Corrigan, Who Helped Ease '87 Stock Crash, Dies at 80". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 31, 2023.


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