Rider University Company

The Rider University community is composed of faculty, staff and students from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Rider University is located in a suburban area with access to destinations including Philadelphia (1 hour), New York City (1 ½ hours) and the Jersey Shore (1 hour). Rider is also one of the nation’s best universities as reported by US News & World Report 2018 and remained in the top tier in the Regional Universities – North category. Additionally, The Princeton Review named Rider among its “Best 382 Colleges” in the nation. Both publications have ranked the University favorably in their respective surveys for more than a decade.

From its beginnings as a private business college nearly a century and a half ago, Rider University has consistently thrived as a home for students seeking a timely, relevant and thorough curriculum and an environment to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.

Founded in 1865 as Trenton Business College, the institution was established to train leaders in the booming, industrialized post-Civil War economy. Today, while Rider still produces some of today’s leading executives, it has also evolved into a diverse, comprehensive university with vibrant and expansive programs in the arts, sciences and education.

Gradually growing in size and scope through the first half of the 20th century, Rider began its move to a more spacious, suburban campus in 1959, when the first offices and classes moved to a 280-acre tract of land on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, N.J. Today, Rider’s Lawrenceville campus is home to its College of Business Administration; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; College of Education and Human Services; College of Continuing Studies; and shares the Westminster College of the Arts with the Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J.