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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.