Pace University

If you want to keep pace with your peers, chances are you're going to need an education. Pace University offers certificate programs as well as undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through six schools: arts and sciences, business, computer science and information systems, education, law, and nursing. In total, the school is home to 100 undergraduate majors offering roughly 30 undergraduate and graduate degrees, 50 master's programs, and four doctoral programs. More than 12,000 students attend the university's three New York campuses (Lower Manhattan, Pleasantville-Briarcliff, and White Plains). It has a student-teacher ratio of about 18:1.