I vote with @thumper1 on this. Students from my area (DC suburbs) often go to SUNY Purchase for theater. It has a very strong regional reputation.
It is much better to begin at a place that she knows she can afford for all four years so that she builds up the connections in the department for increasingly valuable casting/tech assignments. Happykid began at a community college that has a very strong theater program, and walked into good assignments at her transfer school because of the connections between her CC and that university. Transfers from other places weren’t so lucky.
I also vote for all the stage management and theater tech work that your kid can fit into her program wherever she lands. Happykid and her tech/design pals have always found work in theater while the acting-only students were cashiering at Trader Joe’s. The stage managers have all been able to find jobs that use their management and organizational skills when they have been between long-term stage management gigs.
Wherever she does end up, it is almost certain that the fall semester will be online, and that there will be no conventional productions until 2021? 2022?. That is what the people I know in college theater are getting ready for. With the conventional performance spaces closed, new forms of the art are being born as we type here. So perhaps her questions for Fordham and Purchase should include the faculty’s and students’ plans for contributing to the development of Theater of Zoom.