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Overview
The University of Mount Saint Vincent occupies a wooded, riverside campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, overlooking the Hudson, a setting that feels more suburban than its New York City address suggests. Founded by the Sisters of Charity, it is a small Catholic university serving a diverse, largely first-generation student body drawn heavily from the New York metropolitan area.
Academics
Nursing is the university's signature program and its biggest draw, backed by clinical placements across the city's hospital systems. Education, social work, and business are other established programs, and class sizes stay small enough that faculty know students individually, a point the university leans on directly given its size.
Campus & student life
The campus's green, riverside setting is genuinely unusual for New York City, giving students a quiet, walkable campus while Manhattan remains a short train ride away. Many students commute or come from the surrounding boroughs, so weekend campus life is lighter than at a residential-heavy college, though the college has built out residential and campus-life programming for students who do live on campus.
Getting in
Admission is holistic and accessible rather than highly selective, with attention to first-generation and local New York applicants; the university has built its identity around serving students the more selective private colleges nearby often overlook.
Worth knowing
The Sisters of Charity founding still shapes campus culture through a service ethic and a small Catholic-college feel, even though the student body itself is religiously and ethnically diverse. Its nursing pipeline into New York City hospitals is the program most students actually come for.
Admissions
Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)
Applying
mountsaintvincent.edu ↗High school coursework
RequiredHigh school diploma required; self-reported GPA accepted for admission; no specific required high school course-unit distribution published
Recommended4 years of English · 3-4 years of Mathematics · 3-4 years of Physical Science (including laboratory study) · 2-4 years of Social Science · 2-3 years of Foreign Language
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