Pace University is a private co-educational comprehensive university with campuses located in New York City and throughout Westchester County and the Hudson Valley in New York State. Pace was founded by two brothers, Homer S. Pace and Charles A. Pace, in 1906 primarily as a business school for men and women.

The current university consists of two colleges (the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences & the Pforzheimer Honors College), five schools (Lubin School of Business, the School of Computer Science and Information Systems, the School of Education, the School of Law, and the Lienhard School of Nursing), and an institute (the World Trade Institute, formerly in the World Trade Center).

The Environmental Law program in the School of Law is very well-known and has received national accolades from the annual report on law schools done by the magazine US News and World Report. Similarly, the accounting program for the Lubin School of Business (on both the Bachelor's Degree and MBA levels) is considered to be fairly prestigious and high caliber.

Pace is home to the National Actors Theatre founded by Tony Randall.

The sixth and current president is Dr. David A. Caputo, former president of CUNY-Hunter College.