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- By 1921, President Franklin B. Moore and Vice President John E. Gill completed their long-sought goal to build the College its own building, moving the school to its new site at 428 and 430 E. State Street. At the same time, they amended its incorporation to change the school's name to Rider College.
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On November 15, 1961, President Franklin F. Moore (a 1927 alumnus of the college) announced the gradual reorganization of the college into five separate schools, each headed by a dean who would report to the provost. The changes took effect with the 1962–63 academic year. The five schools included a new School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. [8]
Gradually growing in size and scope through the first half of the 20th century, Rider began its move to a more spacious, suburban campus in 1959, when the first offices and classes moved to a 280-acre tract of land on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, N.J. Rider merged with Westminster Choir College in 1992, establishing a campus in Princeton, N ...
Rider University ranks on U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges list and the Wall Street Journal's Top U.S. College list. Rider is also recognized as a Best College by Colleges of Distinction.
In 1901 Rider Business College merged with Stewart Business College, and in 1921 the school changed its name to Rider College. The school awarded its first bachelor’s degree in 1922. In 1964 Rider moved from its site in Trenton , New Jersey, to nearby Lawrenceville.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Rider College was relocated to its present location in 1957, and merged with Westminster Choir College, the only college of its kind in the world, in 1992. After a series of renaming and merging, the school gained the university status, in 1994.
In 1992, Rider College merged with Westminster Choir College, a music school that is now part of the College of Arts and Sciences. This merger established a campus in Princeton, New Jersey, and expanded the undergraduate curriculum to include preprofessional programs in dentistry, law, and medicine.
