Fordham University occurs as buck private, co-co-ed university located in the Bronx in New York City (but by owning campuses too within Manhattan — at Lincoln Center — and Westchester). Based per Society of Jesus in 1841, it is one of Twenty-eight member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Patch officially an independent institution, it strongly embraces its Jesuit heritage. "For most students, the Roman Catholic influence is positive," 1 reads in The Fiske Cure to Colleges 1998, "and many students say that the Jesuit tradition is the school's best attribute."

Inside 2003, Fordham's enrollment included to a higher degree 8,000 undergraduate students and to a higher degree 7,000 graduate students. Fordham awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.

History
Fordham University was founded per Virtually all Reverend John Joseph Hughes, Archbishop of New York, as Saint John’s College within 1841, and was a number one Catholic institution of higher learning in the northeastern United States. the school was granted a charter by the New York state legislature around 1846. Within 1907 the name was changed to Fordham University. (A title Fordham ("village by the ford") refers to the metropolitan area of the Bronx, named as the information to the original award that was placed touching a shallow crossing of the Harlem River; this crossing was the sole entry to Manhattan from the northerly until 1693.) The school's motto - sapientia et doctrina - translates to "wisdom and learning."

Sports
A Fordham varsity sports teams all apply a nickname "Rams." Their colors are maroon and white. A Fordham Rams come members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic Ten Conference in all sports except football. Inside football, a Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division I-AA, and were champions of that league within 2003.

Notable alumni
Alan Alda, actor, most notably when Hawkeye in M*A*S*H William J. Casey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mary Higgins Clark, author Patricia Clarkson, actress Don DeLillo, author Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Representative & number one woman to redo as the Vice Presidential candidate from either a major U.s. political person (Fordham School of Law) John Keane, U.S. General Bob Keeshan, children's television unsuspecting hosts (Captain Kangaroo) John LaFarge, muralist, Stained glass maker Tom Leykis, radio personality (dropped out) G. Gordon Liddy, radio broadcaster, and Watergate conspirator Vince Lombardi, football coaching legend Wellington Mara, owner of New York Giants football team Dylan McDermott, actor Lara Jill Miller, actress (from Fordham Law School) John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Nixon Charles Osgood, journalist for CBS Vin Scully, sports broadcaster Donald Trump, businessman (tended to, there is no degree) Denzel Washington, actor