page_title: St. John's University (New York City)
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: St. John's University (New York City) / Academics
caption_attribution_description: Sun Yat Sen Hall at St. John's University
context_page_description: St. John's University is a private Roman Catholic university in New York City. Founded in 1870 and operated by the Congregation of the Mission, the school was originally located in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant in the borough of Brooklyn. In the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current site at Utopia Parkway in Hillcrest, Queens. St. John's has additional New York City campuses in Staten Island and Manhattan, as well as the Long Island Graduate Center in Hauppauge, New York. Additionally, the university has international campuses located in Rome, Italy, Paris, France, and Limerick, Ireland. St. John's remains deeply Catholic much of the administration is led by priests, a cross graces every classroom, office and common area, and the school maintains close ties with the local Church. The university is named after Saint John the Baptist.
  St. John's is organized into five undergraduate schools and six graduate schools offering more than 100 bachelor, master, and doctoral degree programs as well as professional certificates. In 2016, the university had 16,440 undergraduate and 4,647 graduate students.
context_section_description: St. John's is a large, four-year, primarily nonresidential doctoral/research university.  The full-time, four-year undergraduate program is balanced between arts and sciences and the professional fields. The university is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and has 13 specialized accreditations. 93% of professors have their PhD, although a majority of the faculty is Catholic laity there is still a large amount of clergy members who serve the college.
  During the 2017–18 academic year, the annual base tuition for traditional (Queens and Manhattan campuses) and distance learning students is $39,690 ($41,386 for third- and fourth-year students in The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, and $45,444 for third- to sixth-year Pharm.D. majors in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences).  In fall 2016, 96 percent of St. John's undergraduates received some $497 million in financial aid. Seventy-four percent of student borrowers who graduated between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016, had an average loan debt of $34,234.
caption: Entrance to Sun Yat Sen Hall where the Institute of Asian Studies is located.
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