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ASA College, Midtown Manhattan/Downtown Brooklyn (1985–2023) Briarcliffe College, Long Island City/Bethpage/Patchogue (1966–2018) Christie's Education (1993–2020) Gibbs College, New York City/Melville (1911–2009) Globe Institute of Technology, Manhattan (1985–2016) Long Island Business Institute, Flushing (2001–2024) [10] [11]
Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
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 ...
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] In 1960, John R. Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of New York City, later known as the City University of New York (CUNY).
CUNY Senior Colleges and Graduate Schools. Baruch College, Gramercy Park; Brooklyn College; City College, Harlem; College of Staten Island; CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Brooklyn College alumnus Barry Feirstein donated $5 million to development, and the school is named in his honor. [3] [7] The school is the first public graduate film school in New York City. [a] [b] The school accepted its first cohort for the 2015-2016 academic year and was officially opened by Mayor Bill de Blasio in October 2015. [8]
Midwood High School is the affiliated campus high school of Brooklyn College, a partnership which began with the 1984–85 academic year. It was one of the earliest New York City public high schools to partner a four-year college in the City College of New York (CUNY) system. [11]
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [234] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.