Fordham University is an independent university in the Jesuit tradition. It was established in 1841 as St. John's College by the Right Rev. John Hughes, Coadjutor-Bishop (later Archbishop) of New York, on old Rose Hill Manor in the village of Fordham, then part of Westchester County. The name Fordham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words "ford" and "ham," meaning a wading place or ford by a settlement. Rose Hill is the name given to the site in 1787 by Robert Watts, a wealthy New York merchant, in honor of his family's ancestral home of the same name in Scotland. The College, which opened with a student body of six, was originally staffed by diocesan clergy. In 1846, the year the New York State Legislature granted the School a charter, Bishop Hughes recruited five Jesuits from St. Mary's College in Kentucky and other communities, and the Society of Jesus then assumed the administration of the College. The name was officially changed to Fordham University in 1907. In 1969 the board of trustees was reorganized to include a majority of non-clergy members.
Programs
Accounting, African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Art History, Biological Science, Business, Catholic Studies, Chemistry, Classical & Modern Languages, Communication, Comparative Literature, Computer and Information Science, Conflict Studies, Dance, Dental, Economics, Engineering, Engineering Physics, English, Environmental Studies, Ethics and Society, Finance, General Studies, Health, History, Humanities, Information Sciences, Information Systems, Intercultural Studies, Irish Studies, Justice, Language, Latin, Latin American Studies, Law, Legal Studies, Literature, Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Math, Mathematics, Media Arts, Medical, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Languages, Music, Natural Sciences, Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Pre-Dental, Pre-Health, Pre-Law, Pre-Medical Studies, Pre-Professional, Psychology, Religion, Religious Studies, Science, Sciences, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology, Theatre, Urban Studies, Visual and Media Arts, Women and Gender Studies
Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Doctoral/Research Universities--Extensive
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Admissions office:
Office of Undergraduate Admission
441 East Fordham Road
10458-5191Bronx
New York
United States
Phone: (718) 817-4000
Fax: (718) 367-9404
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