The New Student Orientation Team is excited to welcome the newest class of Rams to Fordham College at Lincoln Center!

The 2024-2025 Academic School year's New Student Orientation is mandatory and will take place in-person from Sunday, August 25, 2024 - Tuesday, August 27, 2024.

We are very excited to welcome parents and family members to campus for Opening and Move-In on Sunday, August 25, to various family orientation events during that day, and to help resident students with move in.

Although the detailed schedule will be released in Summer of 2024, another available resource to you is the Orientation Guidebook! You will receive an email, which can be found in your Fordham email inbox, that offers you access to a breadth of knowledge on orientation that can all be found in this guidebook. We hope this is helpful during this transition for you and your family! 

Schedule of Events

This reflects the general implementation of Fall New Student Orientation at Lincoln Center from past academic years. The schedule of events is subject to change as plans become more concrete in the coming months. 

Sunday, August 25

Welcome to Fordham - Opening Day! On Opening Day, we will host move in for Residential Students, check in for Commuters, open houses sponsored by University Departments, receptions, and the official Welcome Addresses from the President and Deans. Programming is open to students and families, until we transition to student only sessions around 5pm. 

Monday, August 26

Mandatory New Student Orientation programming for all incoming first-year and transfer students begins around 8:00 a.m. and will end at approximately 6:30 p.m. for commuter transfer students, with commuter first-year students ending around 8:30 p.m.  Residents will have their floor meetings at approximately 6:30 p.m.  All new students are welcome to join us for the optional evening social programming beginning at approximately 8:00 p.m.  

Tuesday, August 27

Mandatory New Student Orientation programming begins at approximately 8:30 a.m. and will end around 4:00 p.m for incoming new students. 

If you have any questions, please contact New Student Orientation at 212-636-6260 or email [email protected].