St John's University: Courses, Admission, Cost

St. John's University was established as St John's College in 1867 by the Vincentian community through the initiative of the Most Rev. John Loughlin, Brooklyn's first Roman Catholic Bishop. Initially, the college started out on Brooklyn's on Lewis Avenue with just six faculty and 47 students. The New York State charter granted the powers of a University to the institution college in 1906. It was renamed St. John's University, Brooklyn in 1933 and again as St. John's University, New York in 1954. Currently, the university consists of six colleges and schools. Also, it holds the membership of prestigious organizations such as the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA) and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).

St. John's University has three campuses, including the main campus, situated in New York and three international campuses in Italy, Limerick, and Paris along with the Long Island Graduate Centre in Hauppauge. Situated in Queens, New York, the university's main campus is spread across 105 acres and features a vast lawn, stunning stone buildings and world-class residence halls. It also offers facilities like well-equipped laboratories, a huge library, spacious classrooms, and a hi-tech athletic arena. The Staten Island campus in New York covers an area of 16.5 acres and is located in Staten Island's Grymes Hill section. It houses lush green lawns and apartment-style residences for students. The Manhattan campus situated in New York is home to a part of The Peter J. Tobin College of Business and St. John's School of Risk Management.

Situated in Hauppauge, New York, Long Island Graduate Centre offers graduate education programs to the students of St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and The School of Education. The Rome campus offers graduate degree programs and hosts undergraduate study-abroad programs. The Paris campus was formed to support full-time and semester-abroad programs. The Limerick campus is Ireland is the most recent addition to the university's Discover the World Europe program.

St. John's University offers over 100 programs in diverse areas of study like a business, education, health sciences, liberal arts, and sciences and professional studies. It houses 21,346 part-time and full-time students from 45 U.S. states and 116 countries and 1,471 part-time and full-time faculties. 92% of the entire full-time faculty have a doctorate or some other terminal degree in their respective fields. The university features an impressive faculty-to-student ratio of 1:17. It is home to more than 50 centers, institutes, and clinics. Also, the institution houses over 180 student clubs and organizations.

St. John's University has over 187,000 alumni including many notable names including former governors of New York Mario M. Cuomo and Hugh L. Carey, former governor of California George Deukmejian, Police Commissioner of New York City Raymond Kelly, president of Queens Borough Melinda Katz, the U.S. Department of Commerce's former secretary Ronald H. Brown and Grammy-nominated producer and artist J.Cole. Many other distinguished people have also graduated from the university.