Become a Rockland Eagle
Step 1: Apply
Finalize well-rounded test scores, transcripts, written supplements and optional recommendations by deadline for committee internalizing.
Step 2: Review
Cross-functional selection panel thoroughly assess each applicant across leadership, adversity, community impact categories searching for Rockland’s future trailblazers.
Step 3: Decision
Rolling decisions released over months confer coveted invites to join our campus community alongside tools and touchpoints easing transitions for confirmed students.
Your Legacy Starts Here
As one of the nation’s top private research institutions, earning your spot at Rockland takes demonstrated excellence across spheres.
Our meticulous process appraises intellectual grit, creative spark, self-directed leadership, and your unique community impacts because RU graduates destined to steer boardrooms, laboratories and art movements here require cultivation.
Smoothly transition through dedicated counselor pairings, summer workshops, and student mentor coffees as extended family, not competitors. Tour our triumphs cradled from a riverside campus with architectural marvels to our cloud-scrapeing arena hosting laureates who themselves once nervously awaited thin envelopes conferring futures crafted through sacrifice and dreams.
Join legacies as lengthy as the Cumberland’s winding path by applying today!
Undergraduate
| Cost | Annual |
|---|---|
| Tuition | 45,000 |
| Room & Board | 12,000 |
| Fees | 2,600 |
| Books & Supplies (approximate) | 2,000 |
| TOTAL | 61,600 |
Graduate
| Cost | Per Credit |
|---|---|
| Tuition | 890 |
Affording Excellence
Rockland University holds firm the conviction that no deserving mind encounters locked doors to our campus due to budget barriers. Backed by our $450 million Blue & Gold Fund, we meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for in-state undergraduates and substantial averages for all admitted scholars specializing from divinity through quantum mechanics. From automatically stacking academic, creative, and civic service scholarships for qualifying students to simplifying work-study and loan processes and even staffing a full-time financial concierge team, Rockland moves mountains blocking paths to possibility.
Receive a personalized aid package tallying grants, awards tailored to your situation. Our net price calculator furnishes estimated out-of-pocket costs factored down affordably. And 1-on-1 guidance soothes each step during seamless transitions into the Rockland experience awaited.