Fast Facts

Founded in 1916 by the Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Joseph's University, New York has been dedicated to providing a values-oriented, affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition for more than 100 years.

Locations

LEADERSHIP

PRESIDENT

Donald R. Boomgaarden, Ph.D.
Biography

 

ENROLLMENT

FACULTY

Full-time: Over 150 
Part-time and coaches: Over 300

STUDENT-TO-FACULTY RATIO (FALL 2025)

12:1

RANKINGS AND RECOGNITION

RANKINGS

 

OTHER RECOGNITION

 

GRADUATION AND RETENTION RATES

GRADUATION RATE

 Six-year graduation rate (2019-2025): 68%

RETENTION RATE

85 percent

 

TUITION RATES AND FINANCIAL AID

Value and affordability are at the core of our mission at St. Joseph’s University.

TUITION (FALL 2026)

Undergraduate: $39,140 or $1,270 per credit.
Graduate: $1,310 per credit.

Online programs offer a reduced tuition rate.

FINANCIAL AID (2024-2025)

85.7 percent of St. Joseph's University, New York students received some form of financial aid for the 2024-25 academic year.

Brooklyn Financial Aid

Long Island Financial Aid

Online Financial Aid

PROGRAMS

With campuses in Brooklyn and on Long Island, and many online programs, the University offers more than 100 majors and minors, special course offerings and certificates, accelerated dual degrees and affiliated and pre-professional programs.

Brooklyn Academics

Long Island Academics

Online Academics

SERVICE/EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Service has been at the core of a St. Joseph’s University education for over 100 years. Each year, students, faculty and staff from our Brooklyn and Long Island campuses participate in hundreds of local, national and global community service and service-learning projects.

 

ATHLETICS

St. Joseph's University boasts:

• 68 NCAA tournament appearances; 53 Skyline Conference Championships; six Skyline President Cup wins.
• 1,155 Skyline Conference Academic Award Winners (last five years; GPA over 3.3); 4 Elite 19 Award Winners (highest cumulative GPA competing in each of the Skyline’s 19 championships.)
• Nine All-Americans; Seven Academic All-Americans.
• Collective Athletic Department GPA: 3.3.

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Bears Athletics

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Golden Eagles Athletics

CAMPUS INFORMATION

ABOUT OUR BROOKLYN CAMPUS

The Brooklyn Campus is at the center of one of the nation’s most diverse academic and cultural cities. The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Museum of Art are all just minutes away from its doors.

With Manhattan just over the Brooklyn Bridge, students have quick and easy access to such world-renowned institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

Campus facilities include nine buildings and an outdoor theater across three blocks in the Clinton Hill neighborhood.

Campus Highlights

The Dillon Child Study Center, a teaching facility for SJNY child study majors and a preschool for the community, was one of the first of its kind on the East Coast. The Hill Center, named after the University’s sixth president, S. Elizabeth A. Hill, CSJ, J.D., the 40,000 square-foot athletic facility features a 270-seat, NCAA-regulation basketball and volleyball court, a dance studio, an outdoor terrace overlooking Vanderbilt Avenue, a fully-equipped sports medicine suite and a 90-car underground parking garage.

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ABOUT OUR LONG ISLAND CAMPUS

Our Long Island Campus is located directly off Sunrise Highway, well situated on the South Shore of eastern Long Island. Just minutes from the Great South Bay, Long Island MacArthur Airport, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Orient Point and many of Long Island’s ocean beaches. New York City is just a short train ride away.

Spread over a 32-acre lakeside campus on the outskirts of Patchogue Village, facilities include seven buildings and Outdoor Field Complex.

Campus Highlights

The 33,200-square-foot Student Center offers a diverse range of spaces to enhance the University experience for students, including a dining hall; the Marian and Ray Russo Student Life Suite; an art gallery; the Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel; a gaming lounge and esports room; the Kroog Center for Veterans; and the Ridgewood Savings Bank computer lab. The John A. Danzi Athletic Center boasts an elevated track, six-lane pool, weight room, fitness center and NCAA regulation basketball court that can seat 1,500.

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