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By 1986 Polytechnic University in Brooklyn was the largest technological university in the New York metropolitan area and the second-largest in graduate enrollment in the nation after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of the 300 engineering schools in the United States, Polytechnic had the second-largest graduate enrollment and was ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, New York: 1824 Private not-for-profit 6,835 $0.677 Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity Rochester Institute of Technology: Henrietta, New York: 1829 Private not-for-profit 16,310 $0.759 Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology: Terre Haute, Indiana: 1874
Globe Institute of Technology, Manhattan, 1985–2016 [15] Long Island Business Institute, Commack/Flushing, 1968–2024 [3] [16] New York Career Institute, 1941–2017 [17] Technical Career Institute College of Technology, 1909–2017; Utica School of Commerce, 1896–2016 [18] Wood Tobe-Coburn School, 1937–2017
"Institute of technology" is a designation employed for a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system. The English term "polytechnic" appeared in the early 19th century, from the French École Polytechnique , an engineering school founded in 1794 in Paris .
A handful of American universities include the phrases Institute of Technology, Polytechnic Institute, Polytechnic University, University of Technology or similar phrasing in their names; these are generally research-intensive universities with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, serving as its institute of technology. The university, formerly the SUNY Institute of Technology, has a Utica, New York mailing address and was established in 1987. SUNY Poly is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Brooklyn Institute may refer to Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, now the Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Brooklyn Lyceum, also known as Brooklyn Institute, the first building which housed the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn Tech as seen from Ashland Place in Fort Greene Brooklyn Tech as seen from the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Fort Greene Place The 420-foot WNYE-FM transmitting tower atop the school. The school, built on its present site in 1932 at a cost of $6 million, is 12 stories high, and covers over half a city block.