Adelphi is dedicated to expanding global awareness through education and communication. With a special relationship with the UN and the International Leadership Coordinating Committee, and study abroad programs, it’s an engaged university in the world community. Adelphi has an overall student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1. Its diverse international student body consists of 5,000 undergraduate and 2,600 graduate and doctoral students. Adelphi’s faculty includes internationally renowned scientists, artists, critics and scholars.

Adelphi fosters in its students a passion for knowledge; an understanding and a questioning of cultural values; and a view of themselves as independent, lifelong learners, and contributors to knowledge and service in an ever-changing world.