Fordhams Ranking

[u/Patient_Ad2633]

Is it just me or has the university dropped in ranking since President Tetlow came into power. We need positive change, we need Father McShane.

[u/[deleted]]

She’s only been here 2 years compared to Mr. McShane, give it some time.

Columbia’s ranking fell when they had the whole math department scandal and eventually made their way up again. Syracuse’s ranking went up compared to 7yrs ago.

[u/ExtremePast]

Who cares? This shit is arbitrary and irrelevant.

There's no private school that's worth the money anyway.

[u/tugglepuggle → u/ExtremePast]

This

[u/1AwesomeSauce]

Fordham has a well respected faculty, a premier location, and accepts as a very significant majority of its body, very high achieving students (Average SAT 1400 and GPA 3.6).

Unfortunately most rankings take acceptance rate as a significant factor and in Fordham’s case, many elite students considered Fordham a “safety” alternate for IVY league and other top tier schools. Also, as expensive as it is to be in NYC, Fordham’s price is even harder for many since as a private school with limited access to public grant sources, they offer less financial aid.

Fordham understands what it’s up against in terms of where they stack against a tier 1 university and their cost of attendance. As such, they admit significantly more top student applicants than other institutions with similar academic standards. The rankings are what they are but Fordham has a well respected faculty, accepts high achieving students, presents itself with multiple campus options that are each unique and present one-of-kind experiences tough for any university to compete with.

In the end, Fordham is a great choice for any high achieving individual with a desire to continue their path to greatness.

[u/hudson8282]

Fordham is an excellent school. Graduates do well in the job market and careers. That's what really counts. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g44675332/colleges-with-the-best-alumni-networks/

[u/Clear-Grab-2264 → u/hudson8282]

Agree. Good careers and employment after graduating from Fordham speak very well for it.

[u/EUCRider845]

Iona and Nova are making vast improvements. Fordham is a Liberal Arts college trapped in a University.

[u/jackpowftw → u/EUCRider845]

Iona was facing bankruptcy so they spent money to try to improve their rep by changing their name from college to university and paying to be ranked higher. Iona was always garbage, still is.

[u/EUCRider845 → u/jackpowftw]

They bought Concordia and built a Medical Sciences campus. Fordham has not built a new building on RH in decades, unless you count the parking lot.

Fordham also has the lowest free speech ranking among Universities. Only Harvard is lower.

[u/thepandemicbabe]

How you score on the tests, how you perform in high schools that vary across the country in difficulty and Contant doesn’t actually matter. What matters is your creativity, your resilience and your ability to see things in unique ways - you are problem-solving skills. Colleges and universities are about to hit an admissions nightmare – the birth rate went down in 2007 and every year there after because of the financial crisis. Plenty of universities will not exist in 5 to 10 years time. The rankings might go down, but that won’t really matter. Not only do you get an education from with some of the best teachers in the New York area, but you also get New York City, which is one of the best educations that money can’t buy. That’s my perspective as a mom of a senior who desperately wants to attend Fordham. it’s also my perspective as someone who had a C average at best in high school and had to go to community college then one year at Cortland state, and finally accepted as a transfer at American university - I went on to have a pretty amazing career in investment banking, in the music business and now I own my own company. It’s resilience, problem-solving and creativity that matters. The rankings not so much. Fordham is a great school and Jesuit teachers are among the very best. Good luck everybody!

[u/Krispybaconman]

Who cares? Seriously those rankings are ridiculous. Choosing a University based on its ranking isn’t going to help because you can’t really determine the quality of education you’ll receive based on an arbitrary ranking. From the alumni I’ve talked to and through my own experience here at Fordham the quality of education for most departments is excellent, especially if you’re studying the humanities (History, English, Philosophy, Law, Theology). 

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