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New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, New York.Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, [13] NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin [14] as a non-denominational all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education.
The City University of New York (CUNY, pronounced / ˈ k juː n i /, KYOO-nee) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses : eleven senior colleges , seven community colleges , and seven professional institutions.
The open admissions concept was heavily promoted in the 1960s and 1970s as a way to reduce discrimination in college admissions and to promote education of the underprivileged. The first major application in the United States was at the City University of New York (CUNY).
The Stern School was founded by Charles Waldo Haskins (an alumnus of New York University Tandon School of Engineering) in 1900 as the Undergraduate School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance on the university's Washington Square campus. In 1913, Jeanette Hamill, J.D., M.A., joined the school's Economics department, becoming its first female ...
Alliance University, located in New York City (1882–1897; 1997–2023) Jewish. Bramson ORT College, Forest Hills (1979–2017) Non-denominational Christian.
New York University faced financial hardships leading it to sell its University Heights campus that housed its engineering school to City University of New York, which in turn renamed the campus Bronx Community College. Also during that period from 1969 to 1975, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was forced to rely on subsidies provided by New ...
The New York University College of Arts & Science (CAS) is the primary liberal arts college of New York University (NYU).The school is located near Gould Plaza next to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Stern School of Business, adjoining Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.
In the past few years, competition for spots in public institutions has become more intense, with some state schools such as the State University of New York reporting record numbers of students accepting their offers of admission. [95] There are reports that tuition at state universities is rising faster than at private universities. [97]