City University of New York
Main Office: 535 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10075
212-794-5555
Employees: 20,000+
Chancellor: Matthew Goldstein
Website: http://www.cuny.edu
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The City University of New York is the nation's largest urban public university serving more than 480,000 students at 23 institutions. Founded in New York City in 1847 as the Free Academy, CUNY is comprised of the following schools:
Four-Year Colleges
1. Bernard M. Baruch College
2. Brooklyn College
3. The City College
4. College of Staten Island
5. Hunter College
6. John Jay College of Criminal Justice
7. Lehman College
8. Medgar Evers College
9. New York City College of Technology
10. Queens College
11. York College
Community Colleges
12. Borough of Manhattan Community College
13. Bronx Community College
14. Hostos Community College
15. Kingsborough Community College
16. LaGuardia Community College
17. Queensborough Community College
Honors College and Graduate & Professional Schools
18. Macaulay Honors College (Multiple Locations) & The Teacher Academy (Multiple Loc.)
19. The Graduate Center
20. The CUNY School of Law
21. The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
22. The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
23. The CUNY School of Professional Studies
From certificate courses to the Ph.D., CUNY provides post-secondary learning at every level, in every field of interest: 1,750 programs, more than 230 majors leading to associate and baccalaureate degrees, and more than 160 graduate-degree majors.
The University serves 262,000 academic credit students and 269,808 adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University's academic enrichment program for 32,500 high school students, is offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
For New York State residents, tuition for full-time students at CUNY's six community colleges is $3,150 per year. At the 11 senior colleges, it is $4,600 per year. For out-of-state residents, community college tuition is $210 per credit and senior college tuition is $415 per credit.
More than 80 percent of CUNY's senior college faculty hold Ph.D.s or other highest degrees in their fields. The full-time teaching faculty of 6,700 includes world-renowned experts in virtually every field of human endeavor.
The CUNY student body is made up of many immigrants and diverse, with African-American, white and Hispanic undergraduates each comprising more than 25%, and Asians more than 15%. They speak 131 native languages in addition to English, and represent 172 countries. Thirty-eight percent of first-time freshmen are born outside of the U.S. mainland and 68 percent attended New York City public high schools. Forty-five percent of CUNY undergraduates work more than 20 hours a week and 62 percent attend school full-time, while almost a quarter support children. Nearly 60 percent of undergraduates are female, and almost a third (31%) are 25 or older.
Benefits
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