Rider University Top Questions

Rider is a smaller private school situated right outside of Trenton, NJ. It is a perfect size where you meet people every day while becoming familar with the Rider student family. There is a great recreation center where students can relax, meet people, shoot pool, and use the gym. Our tuition money is put to good use as there are many free daytrips to cities, ski resorts, rafting rivers, and other great attractions. Public transportation is extensive and gets students to the nearby small artsy town of Princeton or the get metropolis we call NYC.

Rider is just the right size it is not to small or two big. I feel like on weekends a lot of people go home. I particularly don't go home because all my friends stay there and if you do stay on weekends it is fun. I spend a lot of time at my sorority house. Something I will always remember is joining a sorority because going into college I was strongly against it but now that I pledged, I absolutely love it and would never change anything about choosing to join. There is a lot of school pride. Our basketball games are crazy there is always a ton of students there and the last couple even got sold out.

Rider is a great learning environment. It is small enough to get to know people and become close to your roommates, suite mates, or class mates. The teachers are all very helpful and concerned about the education of the students. There tends to be a lot of school pride, however, it seems to be lacking from certain groups. Having a football team or more support from fans for the existing sports teams could be improved.

Riders pretty cool. Overall, the dining hall aka Daly's is pretty good. They usually have something I liked and I am pretty picky. Also, Rider has Cranberries which is like a cafe. They make your food to order. Its good. Theres the Bronc Diner, which is good for the late night munchies. Theres also like a mock wawa or 711 aka the C Store. The best part of all of this is you get 375 "Bronc Bucks," to spend on all the junk! Join Greek Life. A lot of time youre friends will go home on the weekends, but the Greeks dont. They stay and hang out with each other. Its a great way to have a bond with usually around 50 people. With greeklife theres ALWAYS something you will be doing.

Rider University is an amazing school with amazing people. I have experienced many of my best moments already at Rider University. Everyone I have met is kind and caring. The professors care about what the students learn and what knowledge they gain from their courses.

Rider is just a great place to spend your college years. There is always something going on and the people are SO nice here. For me, the school is the perfect size. Its not huge where you get lost, and its not to small where your stepping in each others business all the time. Its the perfect size to know enough people but still be able to meet new ones all the time. When people here that I go to Rider they say they have heard good things about the school, especially the acedemics. Most of my time is spend around the dorms, in the Student Center, or in the Rec Center. We dont have a college town, but Princton is RIGHT down the road (literally a 5 minute drive). Also if you dont have a car there is always public transportation. Riders administration has been through a lot over the last two years, with a few unexpected tragedies on campus, but they have done a great job getting through it.

The best thing about Rider is the campus life and students. There is such a diverse group at Rider so you really get to experience a lot of different things. Classes are just right, the administration can be extremely helpful and professors are reasonable. Of course like any university, there are some professors that you should try to avoid as they are less helpful and give an impossible amount of work, but for the most part there are a lot of professors that understand you are taking other classes and try to be reasonable with the work-load. There is definitely a lot of Rider pride when it comes to sports, especially Men's basketball this year because we had upcoming-NBA star Jason Thompson leading the team this year. We also have "Rider Pride Day" - wednesdays, when we should wear cranberry (school color). The most frequent student complaint is probably about parking because despite many additions of parking lots, there are still a lot of times where people are parking in the wrong places, etc. Security also has a ball writing tickets CONSTANTLY, especially if you are parked in the fire zone (which is most of the campus!).

Rider is a good school no doubt about it, but it is the people not the institution that make it that way. It is a small school and unfortunately it seems like everyone knows about everyone elses business. If I could change one thing it would be to go to a bigger school, however the campus feels like home once your there and in the end there would be no way I could ever see myself at a different school and miss out on all of the great lifetime friends I have made.

The best thing about Rider is graduation in 2010. No really thats the best thing. I love the people there though, they are all awesome. The school is a good size I think. I went to something smaller and it was just like going to high school again. When I tell people I go to Rider they're just like Oh. Not like oh really thats a good school or wow how do you like it? It's always just Oh. I'm ashamed to tell people that I go there because they look down on us because of all of the bad things that we're always in the news for. Most of my time spent on campus is with friends, although this year we're not even allowed to have an entire pod (4 people in 2 rooms, a common room, 2 bathrooms, and 4 people in another room) that are all our friends because they don't want us to "have parties". Also they keep letting more and more students in so there isn't guaranteed housing for anyone. They are making doubles triples. Even for upper classmen they are doubling triples which is rediculous. The administration doesn't know what the hell they are talking about and are not eager to help students at ALL. Half of the teachers there don't speak english and are just hired because they have a masters from some ivy league school. I mean thats great that they have their masters but if I can't understand them then how am I supposed to learn anything? I have found very very very few professors who are actually here because they want the students to excel. A lot of the teachers have a "I get paid either way" kind of attitude and it sucks. There is no college town. Its a school in the middle of a neighborhood. You HAVE to have a car if you want to go ANYWHERE. You can't walk to anything. You could walk to 7-11 but it would take a looong time. You also have to go on the highway to get anywhere. The biggest recent controversy on campus was probably housing. They screwed so many people over. Rider administration is a lot like high school..if you want to get anything done or if you want to get anything period you have to have your parents call and scream and talk to the right people. One experience I'll always remember is the two days before ZBT got kicked off campus. We had a hall party how college is supposed to be. We weren't confined to rooms or acutally, not even allowed to have a party at all. If there is more than I think 6 people in a room at one time it can be considered a party so BEWARE. Also parking sucks. The only way you can park near your dorm is if you're a part of greek life. Other then that you have to trek across campus.

Rider is the perfect size campus it's small which is great and is in a great location in NJ. It's very close to Princeton and Route 1 where there are plenty of things to do. The only thing is there are no places that people can really walk to so having a car here is really necessary.