<p>Compare and contrast the following Catholic institutions of higher learning in the metropolitan New York City area: Fordham, Manhattan College, St. John's University, St. Francis in Brooklyn and for the sake of discussion, Seton Hall, Iona, Fairfield, St. Peter's and Sacred Heart. </p>
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<p>The only schools I know about are Fordham, Manhattan, and Iona.</p>
<p>According to my friends, Iona's nickname is "Idiots on North Ave.," and it's chock full of commuter students (i.e. the kids I went to elementary school with). It is a true LAC (3500 undergrad) with a decent business program. </p>
<p>Manhattan College is another LAC (2850 undergrad) and it has the advantage of being closer to the city than Iona, being in a better location, and having a prettier campus. It's a little bit more competitive, admissions-wise, I think.</p>
<p>Fordham is even more selective, has about 7,000 students, and is in a less savory neighborhood. It's also, I think, a better and more challenging school than is given credit for, and I say that independently of Newsweek's 25 Hottest Schools. Some kids I know at Fordham are true Ivy League material, but based on family values (Catholic university, close to home), Fordham is number 1 on their lists.</p>
<p>In NYC Fordham is the best Catholic school, there is a big gap between Fordham and the others in NYC.</p>
<p>technically fordham is jesuit, which "is just a fraternity on catholocism's campus" according to a jesuit teacher at my high school, but it definitely is the best of that kind in nyc. there's a traditional college campus in the bronx and an urban campus in manhattan. also i think st johns is catholic. it's in queens but i haven't heard great things about it...</p>
<p>Fordham's campus is in the Bronx and it is beautiful and right across the street from the New York Botanic Gardens and very near the Bronx Zoo. The Manhattan campus is at Lincoln Center; so is the Fordham Law School.</p>
<p>St. John's is in Queens and is well regarded as well, particularly for professional and pre-professional studies such as the pharmacy school. Many of the students are commuters at St. John's.</p>
<p>The other schools are not well known outside the Catholic community, whereas Fordham and St. John's attract many kinds of students.</p>
<p>Isn't Rudy Guilliani a Manhattan grad?</p>
<p>Id say that the best is Fordham</p>
<p>That school is really on the rise.</p>