Rider University
Lawrenceville, NJ2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099
609-896-5000
Rider University is a comprehensive, coeducational private university located atop the Lawrenceville-Princeton border in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States. The university is organized into five academic units, the College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Education; the School of Business Administration; the School of Fine and Performing Arts; the School of Health Sciences and Education; and the Westminster College of the Arts. Rider has been ranked by The Princeton Review as one of the Best Northeastern Colleges. It is also included in Loren Pope's book Colleges That Change Lives. Rider was founded in 1865 as the Trenton Business College in Trenton, New Jersey. In addition to its Lawrenceville campus, Rider operates a corporate learning center in Hamilton, New Jersey. The Lawrenceville campus is home to the Fine Arts Department and the Westminster Choir College. The Westminster campus is also home to the Princeton Artistic and Historical Society. The university is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Quick Facts
Enrollment: 4636
Acceptance Rate: 75.66%
Type: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Main Website: https://www.rider.edu/
Financial Aid: https://www.rider.edu/onestop
Annual Costs
Total Cost In-State On-Campus: $65360
Total Cost Out-State On-Campus: $65360
Return on Investment Rating
The estimated cost for four years as an undergraduate at Rider University is $236445.29. This includes the average cost of attendance for four years plus the interest on the average loan over a ten year repayment minus the average of grants and scholarships per student.
We then contrast this figure with average early-career and mid-career average incomes of graduates of four year programs at Rider University. For graduates of Rider University, we saw an average early-career income of $54600.00 and mid-career income of $106100.00. We then ranked the school's value based on how many years of mid-career income it takes to repay the educational costs.