City Tech Value 2015

WHERE

CAN

TECHNOLOGY

TAKE

YOU?

THE CITY TECH VALUE 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201

718.260.5500 www.citytech.cuny.edu

17,424 STUDENT ENROLLMENT FALL 2015

Students Enrolled in Baccalaureate Degrees Full-Time Students

7,212

Part-Time Students

62%

38%

44%

STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY DISTRICT

Senate District 19 District 21 District 20 District 18 District 22 District 25 District 10 District 17 District 15 District 13 District 14 District 23 District 12 District 16

Assembly

Roxanne Persaud Kevin S, Parker Jesse Hamilton Martin Malave Dilan Martin Golde Velmanette Montgomery James Sanders Simcha Fedler Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. Jose Peralta Leroy Comrie Diane J. Savino Michael Gianaris Tobhy Ann Stavisky

1282 1255 1032 937 913 904 893 780 762 710 691 636 593 516

Total: 11904

District 58 District 42 District 55 District 59 District 54 District 49 District 60 District 47 District 51 District 38 District 31 District 43 District 57 District 41 District 45 District 44 District 32 District 53 District 56 District 34 District 29

N. Nick Perry Rodneyse Bichotte Latrice Monique Walker Vacant Erik Martin Dilan Peter J. Abbate, Jr Charles Barron William Colton Felix Ortiz Michael Miller Michele R. Titus Karim Camara Walter T. Mosley Helene E. Weinstein Steven Cymbrowitz James F. Brennan Vivian Cook Maritza Davila Annette Robinson Michael G. DenDekker William Scarborough

545 539 502 485 465 461 450 438 432 380 373 368 364 363 346 344 341 335 331 318 302

Total: 8482

50 IN FACT, DURING THE LAST DECADE, CITY TECH HAS SEEN RAPID GROWTH IN

STUDENT ENROLLMENT,

INCREASING BY

%

City Tech

has become a major force in the development of skilled graduates ready for the high-tech careers that increasingly define the global economy.

SINCE 2003

AFFORDABLE

• Pace University (2015): $41,281

$40,000

•S t. John’s University (2015): $38,680 $35,000

$30,000

$25,000

$20,000

$15,000

$10,000

$9,500

$9,000

2012-13 Average Total Cost for Public Colleges and Universities in the United States

$15,022

(U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2015). Digest of Education Statistics, 2013)

2012-13 Average Total Cost for Private Colleges and Universities in the United States

$34,483

(U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2015). Digest of Education Statistics, 2013)

• Binghamton Univesity SUNY (2015): $9,053

$8,500

$8,000

$7,500

•U nivesity of Wisconsin Oshkosh (2015): $7,437 $7,000

$6,500

•C alifornia State University Long Beach (2015): $6,452 $6,000

$5,500

TUITION AND FEES

City Tech (2015)

$6,720

DIVERSITY

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS

152 % 62 CITY TECH STUDENTS COME FROM

COUNTRIES REPORT LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH SPOKEN AT HOME

STUDENT RESIDENCE

46.9% Brooklyn 27.6% Queens 8.7% Manhanttan 11.4% Bronx 2.4% Staten Island

21 MEDIAN AGE

56% MALE

44% FEMALE

31% Black (non-Hispanic) 32% Hispanic 19% Asian/Pacific Islander 12% White (non-Hispanic) 1% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 1% Two or more races 4% Nonresident

STUDENT FINANCIAL BACKGROUND

58%

58% report household income less than $30,000

67%

80%

80% incoming freshmen receive need-based aid

25%

2.7% Other NY State .3%

Other U.S. 67% continuing students receive need-based aid

25% work more than 20 hours per week (Based on 2014 CUNY Student Experience Survey)

Because City Tech is committed to providing students with the latest technology, more space is dedicated to laboratories than traditional classrooms.

Students have access to two 3-D printers in Architectural Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology, simulation labs in the Department of Nursing, a mechatronics lab for the engineering programs, information security technology in the Department of Computer Systems Technology and a super computer in the Department of Physics.

PARTNERSHIPS CITY TECH HAS BEEN CITED AS “THE ENGINE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.” City Tech works with its partners to support the evolution of Brooklyn’s Tech Triangle and the economic expansion of Downtown Brooklyn.

In addition, the College works with partners across the City, and will be the lead educational partner involved with the training of a skilled workforce in the industrial and manufacturing sections of Sunset Park, Brooklyn— primarily in Industry City.

Through City Tech’s partners, students have the opportunity to intern at companies that operate in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as well as at Goldman Sachs, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Honda, Infor, Microsoft and many other leading corporations.

A special arrangement with Infor provides both student internships and specialized training for faculty in Infor’s proprietary software. Collaboration in the design of the much-imitated P-Tech Early College High School has led to a strong partnership between City Tech and IBM. Continuing Education at City Tech will soon run a program in conjunction with Microsoft to bring underrepresented groups into advanced IT careers.

City Tech also partners with organizations that feed those in greatest need, and addresses significant gaps in healthcare. The departments of Vision Care Technology and Dental Hygiene each operate patient care clinics that provide services to the community.

$74 MILLION IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015, CITY TECH STUDENTS WERE AWARDED

IN GRANTS-IN-AID

CITY TECH FOUNDATION

TOTAL FUNDING* FOR STUDENT SUPPORT 2013-15

$1,241,317 2,074 TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS*

* Scholarship

* Number of Students

* Research & Professional Development

* Number of Students

* Emergency Grants (Petrie)

* Number of Students

$809,947

$137,091 $294,279

582

890 602

SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH IN HIGH-IMPACT STEM AREAS

by City Tech faculty provides enormous benefit to our students. During the two most recent academic years,

grants received by faculty have provided scholarships and research stipends to

1,484

STUDENTS TOTALING $

3,112,055

76%

GRADUATED DEBT-FREE (2014-15)

TUITION-FREE

58%

of students had financial aid equal to or greater than tuition

Among the City Tech students who took out loans, the average (median) loan debt was

$7,005 CITY TECH $0

In 2013, National average student loan debt approached

$30,000* NATIONAL AVERAGE $30,000 *U.S. News & World Report

2015 STUDENT

HIGHLIGHTS

PROJECT

Team DURA: A City Tech team, with about 60 student participants from a range of majors, was selected to compete in the

US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SOLAR DECATHLON,

in Irvine, California. It was the only one of twenty teams comprised entirely of undergraduates.

DURA ON FILM: A film created by nine City Tech students, documenting the construction of the DURAsolar house, was chosen by the audience as

“BEST IN SHOW”

at the international Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Hollywood Professional Alliance (HPA) Student Film Festival in Hollywood, California.

Culinary arts students from City Tech’s department of Hospitality Management won the prestigious

MARC SARRAZIN

PRIZE at the international Salon of Culinary Arts competition in New York City. It was the sixth victory for City Tech teams in the last twelve years.

TOBiAS: Eugene Babkin, Bijan Mokhtari and Angelo Kuka, City Tech engineering technology students, created TOBiAS (Tele-Operated Bi-manual Augmented System), a virtual realitystyle immersive experience that allows human input to dictate the movement of a remote robotic torso. TOBiAS was the

WINNING DESIGN in a national competition sponsored by Digilent Technologies.

The team was invited to compete at the international competition in Shanghai, China, where they won first place.

MD Arefin, a computer systems major, was selected from among thousands of applicants to participate in the

GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE program; MD spent the summer writing code to provide new Java tools for programmers.

420 % 50 NUMBER OF FULL-TIME FACULTY

City Tech’s outstanding faculty—many recruited from business, industry and the professions—provide students with the benefit of their extensive knowledge and real-world experience.

With more than 17,000 students during 2014-2015, City Tech now has the largest undergraduate enrollment of any of CUNY’s senior colleges. The full-time faculty has grown by more than one-third in the last 10 years, now totaling approximately 400—an all-time high.

Faculty members play a leading role as the College meets the challenge of preparing students for increasingly important green/sustainable technologies, for the constantly transforming areas of digital technologies, and for technologies in the health fields.

MORE THAN A

INCREASE DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS.

EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD

Renata Budny

Department of Restorative Dentistry

Professor Budny is the recipient of the 2014 Educator of the Year Award from the National Association of Dental Laboratories (NADL). She has also been named one of 25 women of the year in Dentistry

by Dental Products, an important trade journal. Professor Budny’s distinguished career began with her associate degree in dental laboratory technology at City Tech.

AIA NATIONAL COMPONENT EXCELLENCE AWARD

Illya Azaroff

Department of Architectural Technology

Professor Azaroff, formerly honored by the American Institute of Architecture as its Young Architect of the Year, received additional recognition for founding the AIA Regional Recovery Working Group to re-imagine a more resilient and sustainable region after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Northeast. This Working Group, which includes former City Tech students and architects from the surrounding region, received the AIA National Component Excellence Award for Knowledge Sharing Initiatives at the Grassroots Leadership Conference in Washington, DC. This is the first time the award has been given.

JONAS SCHOLAR FOR NURSING LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP

Kathleen Falk Department of Nursing

ProfessorFalk’s research, teaching, and practice focus on embedding healthcare in education, a model that is currently serving residents of the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was awarded the Jonas Scholar for Nursing Leadership Fellowship for her development of a model for nurses working with children of incarcerated parents.

TOP PRIZE WINNER IN IFF EKOTOP FILM FESTIVAL

Ryoya Terao

Department of Entertainment Technology

Professor Terao’s documentary film, “Quest for Energy” won the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic Prize at the IFF Ekotopfilm Festival—the 41st International Festival of Sustainable Development Films, held at Primacial Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. This is one of many awards for Professor Terao’s documentary films, in which City Tech students regularly participate.

CITY TECH’S VALUE IS BEST SUMMED UP BY ITS RECENT VALEDICTORIANS: ALASSANE NGAIDE ’15 AND MARITZA LOPEZ ’14

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rriving in the United States from West Africa in 2000, with only $150 in his pocket, Alassane Ngaide used some of that money to purchase two basic English learner books so that he could teach himself English. Alassane’s parents had just sold all their belongings in order to send him to the United States so that he—one of nine children—could help support his family and hopefully earn a college degree.

Graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering and with a GPA of 3.974, Alassane surpassed even his own expectations. Now in graduate school at Queens College, he plans to teach math at the college level.

But his path to college wasn’t easy.

For almost a decade, Alassane worked at various jobs to support himself and his family back home, keeping just a few dollars aside for his ultimate goal of earning a college degree. “Being a student at City Tech taught me humility and acceptance. This college taught me that even a poor African man from a tiny village can become successful and realize his dream when he applies himself,” says Ngaide.

Maritza Lopez is the daughter of immigrants who earned a degree in radiologic technology and went on to earn another in Health Services Administration while working at Mt. Sinai Hospital as a radiologic technologist. Before Maritza completed her four-year degree, she was already gainfully employed and thriving in the health care field.

Lopez endured a hardscrabble childhood, learning from an early age to advocate for her father— often hospitalized with complications from diabetes—in the labyrinthine and often impersonal health care system. It was an encounter with a radiologic technician at a New York City hospital, whom she observed treating her father with gentleness, that sealed Lopez’s decision to enter the profession. “At work, for the few minutes or hours that any patient is in my care, I am not just a health care provider, I am their friend. We share laughs and smiles even when they seem impossible to create,” says Lopez, who later discovered that the technician who inspired her was a City Tech alumnus.

Naide and Lopez represent the thousands of City Tech graduates who benefit from the value of a CUNY education. Where Can Technology Take You? At City Tech, the possibilities are endless.

96

%

of City Tech’s 2014-2015 graduates were either employed or furthering their education within six months of graduating.

“ 2,674 miles. By foot, by boat, by train, hungry and thirsty, hidden and in silence. 2,674 miles is the heroic journey my mother took with my sister in her arms in search of a better life...So I held my head high; I am unashamed and undeterred. Being poor or homeless are not things that define who I am, but they are what made me self-reliant, hardworking and resilient...

The greatest gift I take away from being a student at City Tech is the luxury of understanding that I am not a product of my circumstances. Instead, I can pave my own path.”

—Maritza Lopez / Valedictorian ’14

HIGHEST

CITY TECH ASSOCIATE DEGREE GRADUATES EARN THE

MID-CAREER

According to

PayScale, a company that studies salaries,

SALARIES

OF ANY COLLEGE IN THE UNITED STATES.

We couldn’t have done it without support from our City and State.

We look forward to your continuing support.

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