Facts & Figures

College Facts

• Location: Riverdale, N.Y.
• Founded: 1853 
• Affiliation: Catholic in the Lasallian tradition
• Campus: 22 acres
• Full-time Enrollment: 3,500 students — 2,900 undergraduate, 600 graduate
• Undergraduate demographics: 51% men, 49% women, 25% minorities
• Geographical origins: 39 states and 50 countries
• Retention Rate: 88% from freshman to sophomore year

Academics

• Carnegie Classification: Master’s Colleges and Universities
• Schools: Arts, Business, Education and Health, Engineering, Science, and Continuing and Professional Studies
• Popular majors: civil engineering, communication, management, childhood education and biology
• Pre-professional programs: pre-dental, pre-law, pre-medial, pre-physical therapy, pre-veterinary 
• Accelerated master's programs: business, education, engineering 
• Average high school GPA: 87–93
• Average SAT: 1015–1170 (critical reading and math sections combined)
• Average ACT: 22–26
• Undergraduate student/faculty ratio: 12:1
• Average class size: 23 students
• Full-time faculty: 201 — 93% hold doctoral degrees

Student Life

• Student housing: 74% of freshmen live on campus; housing is guaranteed for four years
• Athletics: 19 men’s and women’s NCAA Division I teams
• Student clubs and activities: more than 80, including Student Government, Campus Ministry and Social Action, intramural athletics and academic/professional clubs
• Honor societies: 26
• Internships: approximately 250–300 students intern each year; popular options include New York Mets, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, New York Power Authority, Met Life, UBS, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Donna Karan and New York Life Insurance

Cost

• Tuition and fees: $35,485*
• Tuition, room and board: $47,185*
• Students receiving aid: 86%
• Students receiving merit aid: 25%
• Financial aid form required: FAFSA (March 15 is the preferred filing date)

* Fees vary based on school.  For exact figures please see Undergraduate Tuition & Fees. 

Marks of Distinction

• Manhattan College is one of 276 institutions in the United States with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
• All three of Manhattan College’s professional programs — business, education and engineering — are nationally accredited.
• The five undergraduate engineering programs — chemical, civil, computer, electrical and mechanical — are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET, Inc).
• The School of Education is accredited by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC).
• The School of Business is one of 555 institutions in the world to be accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International.
• Seventeen alumni are members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering — an impressive number for an institution the size of Manhattan College.
• Manhattan College is one of few American colleges to have chapters of all five of the distinguished national honor societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi.
• Distinguished alumni include Rudy Giuliani ’65, former mayor of New York City; James Patterson ’69, best-selling author; and Raymond Kelly ’63, commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
• The Best Colleges 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranks Manhattan College 17th overall in the Best Regional Universities (North) category.
• Manhattan College placed 13th in the Fifty Affordable Colleges with the Best Return on Investment category in the Bloomberg Businessweek/PayScale 2011 survey.
• The School of Engineering is ranked 35th by U.S. News & World Report among engineering schools whose highest degree is a bachelor’s or master’s.
• According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the value of a Manhattan College degree, based on median salary of graduates, is ranked 37th out of 554 schools surveyed.
• Of more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, Manhattan College is one of only 342 with Division I athletics.
• Manhattan College is one of only 182 remaining colleges founded in the United States before the Civil War.
• Manhattan College is listed among the Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Scholars by Type of Institution, 2012-13