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John Hughes, Archbishop of New York and founder of St. John's College at Fordham. [4]In September 1840, the Irish-born coadjutor bishop (later archbishop) of the Diocese of New York, the Most Reverend John J. Hughes, [5] purchased the bulk of Rose Hill Manor, a private farm in the village of Fordham, New York (located in present-day the Bronx, New York City), for slightly less than $30,000 ...
Fordham University is a private, Roman Catholic research university located in New York City, New York, United States.Founded in 1841, it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the northeastern United States, [1] the third-oldest university in the state of New York, and the only Jesuit university in New York City. [2]
Fordham University (/ ˈ f ɔːr d ə m /) is a private Jesuit research university in New York City, United States.Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the northeastern United States [11] and the third-oldest university in New York State.
The following is a list of the presidents of Fordham University, from its establishment as St. John's College onward. From 1841 to 1846, the university was governed by the Archdiocese of New York , and was placed in the custody of the Society of Jesus thereafter.
Street side. The William D. Walsh Family Library is a library located at Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, New York City.In its 2004 edition of The Best 351 Colleges, the Princeton Review ranked Fordham's William D. Walsh Family Library fifth in the country, ahead of Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.
Adjacent to the church is the Fordham University Cemetery, where the university's original nineteenth-century Jesuits, diocesan seminarians, students, and workers are interred; [5] the original cemetery had been located on property that now belongs to the New York Botanical Garden, and the graves were relocated to their current location in 1890 ...
Duane Library is a former library located at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus, originally constructed in 1926. After the construction of the William D. Walsh Family Library in 1997, Duane Library officially closed. Renovated in 2004, it now houses the university's admissions office and theology department.
Fordham's various graduate programs have also been ranked by the U.S. News & World Report: [8] In 2017, the graduate program of Education was named the 45th best in the United States; its English graduate program was ranked 51st in the nation, while its history and sociology programs were ranked no. 79 and 102, respectively. The graduate ...