Facts & Figures
College Facts
- Location: Riverdale, N.Y.
- Founded: 1853
- Affiliation: Catholic in the Lasallian tradition
- Campus: 22 acres
- Enrollment: 3,500 students — 2,900 undergraduate, 600 graduate and continuing education
- Undergraduate demographics: 51% men, 49% women, 25% minorities
- Geographical origins: 36 states and 38 countries
- Retention rate: 87% from freshman to sophomore year
Academics
- Carnegie Classification: Master’s Colleges and Universities
- Schools: arts, business, education, engineering, science, and continuing & 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
- Acceptance rate: 63%
- Undergraduate student/faculty ratio: 12:1
- Average class size: 13 students
- Full-time faculty: 201 — 93% hold doctoral degrees
Student Life
- Student housing: 82% 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 Fox News, 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: $32,910
- Tuition, room and board: $45,650
- Students receiving aid: 86%
- Students receiving merit aid: 25%
- Financial aid form required: FAFSA (March 15 is the preferred filing date)
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 schools — 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.
- Sixteen 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 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranks Manhattan College 15th 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.
- Led by the chemical engineering department, which is ranked 5th in the nation, the school of engineering is ranked 40th by U.S. News & World Report among engineering schools whose highest degree is a bachelor’s or master’s.
- Manhattan College is recognized for economic diversity among top-ranked schools in the Best Regional Universities (North) category in U.S. News & World Report.
- 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’s Lasallian Leaders logged more than 1,806 service hours during the 2010–2011 school year.