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HSMSE was ranked the city's third best public high school in The New York Post ' s annual school ranking. [14] In 2013, HSMSE was ranked among the nation's top high schools by the U.S. News & World Report, [15] and in 2017, the U.S. News & World Report ranked HSMSE as third in New York State and 26th nationally. [16]
James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, 1994. Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997, 2000.
The university enrolls more than 275,000 students and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty-four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni. [8] The oldest constituent college of CUNY, City College of New York, was originally founded in 1847 and became the first free public institution of higher learning in the United States. [9]
Midwood High School is a high school located at 2839 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, administered by the New York City Department of Education. It has an enrollment of 3,938 students. [3] Its H-shaped building, with six Ionic columns and a Georgian cupola, was constructed in 1940 as part of the Works Projects Administration.
Sheldon Stone (B.S. 1967), physicist at Syracuse University best known for his work in experimental elementary particle physics, including the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment; Martin Summerfield (B.S. 1936), physicist and rocket scientist, co-founder of Aerojet, and the inventor of regenerative cooling for liquid rocket engines
The school moved back to the City College campus in 1984 under the leadership of J. Max Bond Jr., who had taught at City College since 1972. [5] In 1999 Rafael Viñoly was hired to design a new facility to house the school, which opened in 2009 at the south end of the City College campus in a former library building. [6]
Hunter College High School is a public academic magnet secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered and funded by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and no tuition is charged. According to Hunter, its 1,200 “students represent the top one-quarter of 1% of ...
The current College of Staten Island, the largest CUNY school by land area, is the result of a merger between Richmond College (upper-division college founded in 1965) and Staten Island Community College (lower-division college founded in 1955). [13] Lehman College was formerly a branch campus of Hunter College that was known as Hunter-in-the ...