The City University of New York is the nation’s largest urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as the Free Academy, CUNY comprises 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the CUNY School of Public Health.
The University serves more than 263,000 degree-credit students and 258,000 adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University’s academic enrichment program for 32,500 high school students, is offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools throughout the five boroughs of the City of New York. The University offers online baccalaureate degrees through the School of Professional Studies and individualized baccalaureate degrees through the CUNY Baccalaureate Degree.
The CUNY system operates in 290 buildings on almost 26 million square feet of space and includes state-of-the-art computer centers, science and language laboratories, gymnasiums, theaters, greenhouses and astronomy observatories.
For more information about CUNY see its website at www.cuny.edu.
