Our Strengths

Nationally and internationally recognized programs

• The Lubin School of Business is professionally accredited for both business and accounting by AACSB International, the premier accrediting organization for business schools, an elite distinction shared by fewer than 3% of business schools in the world.
• Pace’s part-time MBA program is ranked as one of the top 20 programs in the nation.
• For two years in a row, Pace was selected as one of the top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities in the United States by Entrepreneur magazine.
• Pace’s Environmental Law program is ranked third in the country.

Students and faculty achieve the nation’s most prestigious honors.

• With 56 Phi Beta Kappa inductees among our faculty and staff, the University is now successfully preparing students to compete for national and international awards.
• Pace students have earned 16 Fulbright Fellowships, 10 Watson Fellowships, 7 Rockefeller Fellowships, 2 Gilman International Scholarships, and a Freeman Foundation Scholarship in the past four years.
• Pace is ranked in the top 10 colleges in the nation in candidate performance on the Uniform CPA Exam.

Popular and influential luminaries visit Pace

• President Bill Clinton; poetry giants John Ashbery and Maya Angelou; feminist icon Gloria Steinem; Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton and actors Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino; former U.S. Senator George Mitchell; U.S.News & World Report’s David Gergen; Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin; former U.S. Congressman Lee Hamilton; and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol have visited Pace in the last year.

Students prepare to be competitive in a global economy

• More than 800 international students on visa from 115 nations, plus countless U.S. residents and new citizens from across the world, enrich our campuses with a kaleidoscope of nationalities, ethnicities, cultures, races, religions, and global perspectives.
• For decades our Model United Nations team has been recognized as one of the dominant forces at competitions across the world.
• Pace is an Internet2 University, where faculty use innovative technology to bring students from around the world together in virtual classrooms.
• In computer and information sciences, Pace was ranked number two nationally in awarding master’s degrees to African-Americans and Hispanics in 2003 and number one for all minorities in 2005.

Pace is a powerful institution, poised to reach new levels of excellence

• Pace has more than 116,000 alumni, an influential network of individuals who impact business, law, technology, nursing, education, the arts and sceinces, and community and civic life.
• Innovative programs, like the Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Center for Global Finance, and Actors Studio MFA Program, prepare students for a rapidly changing and complex world.
• As the only private, comprehensive university with campuses in the Financial District, Midtown Manhattan, and Westchester County, Pace offers an educational experience like no other institution.