Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Baruch College, Manhattan; Brooklyn College, Midwood; City College of New York, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan; College of Staten Island; Hunter College, Upper East Side; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
The school was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the … city and county of New York". [10] The Free Academy later became the City College of New York, the oldest institution among the CUNY colleges. [11]
From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997, 2000. Rudy, Willis. College of the City of New York 1847–1947. The City College Press, 1949. Reprinted in 1977 by the Arno Press. Traub, James. City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, Addison-Wesley: 1994. Van Nort, Sydney C.
The master's degree is awarded in 13 professional and liberal arts and sciences fields of study. A clinical doctorate is awarded by the department of physical therapy. The college participates in doctoral programs of the CUNY Graduate Center in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, nursing, physics, and psychology.
CUNY has served a diverse student body, especially those excluded from or unable to afford private universities. Its four-year colleges offered a high-quality, tuition-free education to the poor, the working class, and the immigrants of New York City who met the grade requirements for matriculated status.
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).
In 2013, CUNY SPS opened its principal campus in midtown Manhattan, at the former site of the Gimbels department store. [2] In the twenty years since its founding, CUNY SPS became CUNY’s first and leading campus to offer fully online degree programs at both the bachelor's and master's level. The School's programs have also been ranked among ...
The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) is a public community college in New York City.Founded in 1963 as part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, BMCC grants associate degrees in a wide variety of vocational, business, health, science, engineering and continuing education fields.