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Fordham University Admin Building
The Administration building on the campus.

Fordham University is a private research university in New York City, New York. The university has about 14,544 students. It was founded in 1841. The current president of the university is Reverend Joseph M. McShane S.J..

Sports

The athletics teams of the university are called the Rams. They have 22 varsity teams and they compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for everything but football. In football Fordham competes in the Patriot League.

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  • Cadets with Lt. Squiers April 1886 Fordham

    Lt. Herbert C. Squires with the Fordham cadet corps, April 1886

  • Woolworth Building at night, New York City

    Woolworth Building 1913, site of City Hall campus

  • Keating Hall 1936 commencement

    First commencement ceremony before recently completed Keating Hall, June 10, 1936

  • General view of ceremonies at Lincoln Square when President Eisenhower was applauded

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the launching of Lincoln Center campus, 1959

  • Duane Library interior

    Interior of Duane Library at the Rose Hill campus, 2004

  • Fordham LC 23 - School of Law

    Entrance to the Fordham School of Law at Lincoln Center

  • Cunniffe House, 2017

    Cunniffe House, the administration building at Rose Hill, constructed in 1838 and one of the oldest buildings on campus

  • Church, Fordham University from northeast end (4803445032)

    Fordham University Church, Rose Hill, viewed from the northeast

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    Keating Hall, administrative headquarters of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Rose Hill

  • Duane Library, Rose Hill

    Duane Library, Rose Hill

  • Alpha House, Fordham University

    Alpha House, Rose Hill

  • GEN Colin Powell

    Colin Powell, alumnus of Fordham Military Science program

  • O'Hare Hall dormitory

    O'Hare Hall at Rose Hill campus

  • Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus

    View of the Lincoln Center Campus

  • Fordham Univ. Queen's Court by R.Bucko

    Queen's Court Residential College, Rose Hill

  • Keating Hall, 2014

    Keating Hall, the architectural centerpiece of Rose Hill, with Edwards Parade in the foreground

  • Fordham University 08

    University Church at Rose Hill, with Orestes Brownson statue in foreground

  • Fordham University School of Law (48047448923)

    View of the School of Law at Lincoln Center

  • Fisherman-Fordham

    The Peter, Fisher of Men statue at the Lincoln Center campus

  • Fordham's illuminated glass brick tower, at dawn (35217845306)

    The illuminated tower at Lincoln Center

  • Fordham LC 11 - Robert Moses Plaza

    Robert Moses plaza at Lincoln Center

  • Fordham baseball card c. 1910

    College series Fordham baseball card, c. 1910

  • Fordham University Rams football at Yankee Stadium, 1940

    The Rams football team in Yankee Stadium on November 30, 1940, during a game against NYU

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    Fordham football in The Liberty Cup against Columbia at Jack Coffey Field, 2015

  • Fordham baseball field 1902

    A game against Yale on the Fordham baseball field, April 1902

  • Collins Hall Rose Hill, Fordham

    Collins Auditorium, theater at Rose Hill and home to the philosophy department

  • Blue Chapel Keating Hall

    The Blue Chapel in Keating Hall, Rose Hill

  • Fordham University 10

    Statue of Archbishop Hughes gifted in 1891, Rose Hill campus

  • Ram statue, Fordham Rose Hill

    Statue of the Ram, the university mascot, Rose Hill

  • Seal of Fordham University

    University seal

  • Fordham "Ram" March and Two Step

    Fordham's fight song, "Fordham Ram" by J. Ignatius Coveney

  • Keating Hall tower and clock

    Keating Hall tower, Rose Hill

  • Keating first floor auditorium

    Keating Hall Auditorium, popular filming location at Rose Hill

  • Alan Alda MASH 1972

    Alan Alda, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor

  • Esteban Bellan

    Steve Bellán, first Cuban and first Latin American to play major league baseball

  • William-Casey

    William J. Casey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

  • Mary Higgins Clark at the Mazza Museum

    Mary Higgins Clark, novelist

  • Patricia Clarkson Press Conference The Party Berlinale 2017 01 (cropped 2)

    Patricia Clarkson, Academy Award-nominated actress

  • Don delillo nyc 02-cropped

    Don DeLillo, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist

  • Lana Del Rey Cannes 2012

    Lana Del Rey, singer-songwriter

  • Portrait of John LaFarge

    John La Farge, visual artist

  • Governor Martin H. Glynn

    Martin H. Glynn, 40th Governor of New York

  • Michael Kay

    Michael Kay, sports broadcaster for the New York Yankees

  • Jack Keane

    Jack Keane, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army

  • Scully GM

    Vin Scully, sportscaster

  • Cardinal Francis Spellman

    Francis Spellman, Cardinal Archbishop of New York

  • Donald Trump official portrait (cropped)

    Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, attended for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania

  • Denzel Washington cropped 02

    Denzel Washington, Academy Award-winning actor

  • Picture of Hilaire Belloc

    Hilaire Belloc, prolific Anglo-French writer and historian, President of the Oxford Union, British Member of Parliament

  • Brian Davies

    Brian Davies, Professor of Philosophy at Fordham, and specialist in Thomism

  • Hess

    Victor Francis Hess, Nobel Prize recipient and discoverer of Cosmic Rays

  • Olivia Hooker DVIDS1101558

    Olivia Hooker, first African-American woman to enter the U.S. Coast Guard

  • Cardinal McCloskey Napoleon Sarony

    John McCloskey, first US Catholic Cardinal and first president of Fordham

  • Pietro Montana in his studio cropped

    Pietro Montana, sculptor and painter noted for war memorials and religious works

  • Guillermo Owen

    Guillermo Owen, Colombian mathematician, considered one of the founding fathers of game theory

  • Professor Susan Scafidi

    Susan Scafidi, founder of Fashion Law Institute

  • Zephyr Teachout 2014 Pride March

    Zephyr Teachout, political activist, CEO of Mayday PAC

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