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LIFTING STUDENTS JUST LIKE YOU
2 An exceptional education should expand your mind and possibilities without emptying your pockets.
76% GRADUATE DEBT-FREE $7K 4-YR COLLEGE $4.8K 2-YR COMMUNITY COLLEGE ANNUAL TUITION – NY STATE RESIDENT $18.6K 4-YR COLLEGE $9.6K 2-YR COMMUNITY COLLEGE ANNUAL TUITION – OUT OF STATE RESIDENT
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Popular Majors
ARTS
Art
Art History
Commercial Photography
Creative Writing
Dance
Film/Cinema Studies
Music/Music Composition
Speech and Theater Arts
Theater and Dance
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Animation
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Digital Design
Digital Forensics
Game Design
Graphic Arts & Graphic Design
Multimedia & Digital Design
Music Recording Technology
Sonic Arts/ Audio Technology
Telecommunications Technology
Website Design & Administration
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
CUNY Med/Pre-Med
Community Health/Public Health
Dental Hygiene
Dental Lab Technician
Dietetics/Food & Nutrition
EMT/Paramedic
Exercise Science
Medical Laboratory Science
Nursing
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy Assistant
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Physical Therapy
Radiologic Technology
Speech Pathology & Audiology
LIBERAL ARTS
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Legal Studies/Pre-Law
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Biomedical Science
Chemistry
Engineering
Environmental Science
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Geology
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Mathematics/Statistics
Neuroscience
Pharmaceutical Science
Physics
Sleep Science
For a full list of majors: cuny.edu/majors
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25 Colleges in the Capital of the World
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An Exceptional Education
1 Start with a solid foundation in our university-wide core curriculum.
30 Enjoy a more personalized learning experience in small classes . 70% of our classes have 30 students or fewer.
174 Think globally. Your future classmates speak 174 languages and come from more than 200 nations and regions.
1,750 Find your fit from over 1,750 academic majors across the university, or customize a unique major with the CUNY Baccalaureate program.
80% Learn from the brightest. 80% of our full-time faculty have the highest degree in their field — not to mention that they are Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, NSF Grant Recipients, MacArthur Fellows and more.
For a full list of majors: cuny.edu/majors
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America’s Best Value Colleges The New York Times Colleges that Create Futures The Princeton Review KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE One of the Top 10 Community Colleges in the Nation Aspen Institute College Excellence Program BARUCH COLLEGE Most Innovative Schools U.S. News and World Report Best Bang for the Buck Washington Monthly CITY COLLEGE Best Global University U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges in New York Best Colleges CUNY propels almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and Chicago, combined. The New York Times 7
Support Networks to Ensure Your Success
CUNY START
Get a strong start with intensive preparation in reading, writing and math. Students who complete CUNY Start are more likely to succeed in college level math and english courses, have a stronger GPA and have better outcomes once they enter a degree program.
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College Discovery/SEEK
CD and SEEK provide comprehensive academic, financial, and social support to assist capable students who otherwise might not be able to attend college due to their educational and financial circumstances. Other services include: need-based financial aid, tutoring, skill building and career development workshops, and peer mentoring.
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CUNY ASAP|ACE
Focus on Your Degree. We’ll Take Care of the Rest. CUNY ASAP and ACE are academic support programs designed to help associate and baccalaureate degree students stay on track and graduate on time by providing a range of financial, academic, and personal supports: Tuition and fee gap scholarships, textbook and transportation assistance, career development, and dedicated advisors to guide your progress from entry to graduation.
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The Connections to Match Your Drive
Our students secure internships with top organizations and land jobs.
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Great Minds at Work
Roll up your sleeves and engage in cutting edge research alongside dedicated and passionate faculty. The results speak for themselves.
116 NSF Fellows
96 Fulbright Scholars
10 Truman Scholars
13 Nobel Laureates
24 MacArthur Fellows
9 Rhodes Scholars
Devashish Basnet
2022 Rhodes Scholar
Hunter College
D levashish (Dave) Basnet, a graduate of Hunter College was one of just 32 students across the United States selected as a 2022 Rhodes Scholar — often considered the most famous academic award available to American college graduates. As a DACA recipient from Nepal, Dave plans to pursue a master’s degree in public policy and a Master of Science degree in refugee and forced migration studies.
Elizabeth Asemota
Jack Cooke
Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship
Bronx Community College
Elizabeth Asemota is a 2022 graduate of Bronx Community College, and a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. The aspiring nurse practitioner won the most prestigious scholarship for community college students after serving as a passionate advocate for BCC as president of its student government.
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Infinite Ways to Get Involved
Explore your interests outside of the classroom. Pursue a passion, exercise your expertise and widen your world. Have fun with over 1,800 student clubs, 166 study abroad programs, NCAA Athletics, intramural programs, university-wide festivals, business incubators, lectures and service opportunities. There is always something exciting happening on our campuses. How will you get involved?
Go for a swim in one of our Olympicsized pools
Race a concrete canoe
Play tennis at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Hone your speaking skills at TEDxCUNY
Win Best Documentary at the CUNY Film Festival
Explore NYC museums for free with your CUNY ID
L aunch new business ideas with CUNY startups
Root for your favorite team in the CUNY Athletics Conference
Become a tutor with CUNY Tutor Corps
Run track and field at Icahn Stadium
Read your favorite novel on a quad
L earn to code at our 3-day hackathon
Immerse yourself in campus life — learn, serve, play, give back, create, take a risk, find yourself and be transformed.
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Connect with the Colleges
Whether you revel in the serenity of a quiet quad as you read the classics or thrill at the bustle of the city that never sleeps, you’ll find a home at CUNY. Each of our campuses offers a unique college experience and takes full advantage of the greatest city in the world. Come visit and find the best fit for you.
Baruch College
Size: 20,000
Mascot: Bearcat
Most Popular Major: Accounting
What’s Nearby: Madison Square Park, Little India, the Flatiron Building
Claim to Fame: Ranked #1 college in the country for social mobility for four consecutive years
Website: baruch.cuny.edu
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Size: 19,300
Mascot: Manny the Panther
Most Popular Major: Business, Criminal Justice, Nursing
What’s Nearby: World Trade Center, Hudson River
Waterfront, Battery Park City, Wall Street
Claim to Fame: Home of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and Tribeca Film Festival
Website: bmcc.cuny.edu
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Urban Campus Housing Online Programs 2-Year Degree 4-Year Degree Traditional Campus
Bronx Community College
Size: 7,300
Mascot: Bronx Bronco
Most Popular Major: Liberal Arts and Sciences
What’s Nearby: Little Italy, the Bronx Zoo, the NY Botanical Garden
Claim to Fame: Home to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Website: bcc.cuny.edu
Brooklyn College
Size: 15,900
Mascot: Bulldog
Most Popular Major: Business Administration
What’s Nearby: Prospect Park, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Claim to Fame: Home to NYC’s first public film school, The Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema
Website: brooklyn.cuny.edu
The City College of New York
Size: 14,600
Mascot: Beaver
Most Popular Major: Engineering, Architecture, Sciences, Education, Music, Psychology
What’s Nearby: Riverbank State Park, West Harlem Piers, the Apollo Theater
Claim to Fame: Celebrated roster of 10 Nobel Prize winners
Website: ccny.cuny.edu
College of Staten Island
Size: 11,800
Mascot: Dolphin
Most Popular Major: Psychology, Business
What’s Nearby: Staten Island Ferry, Empire Outlets, Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Claim to Fame: One of three colleges in the U.S. authorized to breed the African Naked Mole Rat, a sought-after cancer research animal model
Website: csi.cuny.edu
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CUNY School of Professional Studies
Size: 4,100
Mascot: Lynx
Most Popular Major: Nursing
What’s Nearby: Madison Square Garden, Empire State Building, Herald Square, Penn Station
Claim to Fame: Ranked in Top 5% for Online Bachelor Degrees by U.S. News and World Report. 90% of SPS’s online General Education courses are offered with Zero Textbook cost.
Website: sps.cuny.edu
Guttman Community College
Size: 900
Mascot: Stella the Grizzly Bear
Most Popular Major: Liberal Arts and Sciences
What’s Nearby: Bryant Park, Grand Central, Times Square, Broadway, Rockefeller Center, MoMA
Claim to Fame: Bobby Ashley, creator of Amazon Prime Video’s The Ave, graduated from Guttman CC
Website: guttman.cuny.edu
Hostos Community College
Size: 5,400
Mascot: Caiman
Most Popular Major: Liberal Arts and Sciences
What’s Nearby: Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Universal Hip Hop Museum
Claim to Fame: The NJCAA DIII Women’s Basketball Champions two years in a row
Website: hostos.cuny.edu
Hunter College
Size: 24,100
Mascot: Hawks
Most Popular Major: Psychology
What’s Nearby: Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum Mile
Claim to Fame: Since 2016, Hunter students have won almost every nationally-competitive scholarship available including Rhodes, Marshall, and Fulbright
Website: hunter.cuny.edu
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Size: 15,200
Mascot: Bloodhound
Most Popular Major: Criminal Justice
What’s Nearby: Lincoln Center, Central Park
Claim to Fame: Nationally ranked in criminal justice and forensics education
Website: jjay.cuny.edu
LaGuardia Community College
Size: 14,900
Mascot: Red Hawk
Most Popular Major: Liberal Arts: Math and Science
What’s Nearby: The Falchi Building, The Factory, MoMA PS1, Gantry Plaza State Park
Claim to Fame: Home of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, which document the social and political history of NYC
Website: laguardia.edu
Kingsborough Community College
Size: 14,200
Mascot: The Wave
Most Popular Major: Liberal Arts and Sciences
What’s Nearby: Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Coney Island
Claim to Fame: Our unique programs in Paramedics, Polysomnographic (Sleep) Technology and Maritime Technology
Website: kbcc.cuny.edu
Lehman College
Size: 14,400
Mascot: The Lightning Bug
Most Popular Major: Health Professions, Business, Sociology
What’s Nearby: Van Cortland Park, the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and Little Italy
Claim to Fame: The new Science Hall, equipped with hightech classrooms, labs, and a rooftop teaching and research greenhouse
Website: lehman.edu
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Macaulay Honors College
Size: 2,000
Mascot: Mountain Lion
Most Popular Major: Finance, Accounting, Psychology, Biology, English, Engineering
What’s Nearby: Central Park, Lincoln Center
Claim to Fame: One of the top seven public honors colleges in the nation
Website: macaulay.cuny.edu
Medgar Evers College
Size: 4,100
Mascot: Cougar
Most Popular Major: Biological Sciences, Business, Psychology
What’s Nearby: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Park, Barclays Center
Claim to Fame: The annual Jazzy Jazz Festival
Website: mec.cuny.edu
NYC College of Technology
Size: 14,300
Mascot: Yellow Jacket
Most Popular Majors: Business and Technology of Fashion, Career & Technology Education, Hospitality Management, Biomedical Informatics
What’s Nearby: Brooklyn’s Tech Triangle, the Brooklyn Bridge, Barclays Center, BAM and the Navy Yard
Claim to Fame: Largest four-year public college of technology in the Northeast
Website: citytech.cuny.edu
Queens College
Size: 18,800
Mascot: Knight
Most Popular Major: Education, Psychology, Computer Science
What’s Nearby: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Citifield, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Claim to Fame: Home of the Kupferburg Center for the Arts and Queens College Tech Incubator, the only tech start-up incubator in Queens
Website: qc.cuny.edu
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Queensborough Community College
Size: 11,000
Mascot: Tiger
Most Popular Major: Liberal Arts and Sciences
What’s Nearby: The Queens County Farm Museum, Alley
Pond Environmental Center, Oakland Lake
Claim to Fame: The Annual Professional Performing Arts Series
Website: qcc.cuny.edu
York College
Size: 7,000
Mascot: Cardinal
Most Popular Major: Health Professions, Sciences
What’s Nearby: King Manor Museum, JFK International Airport, Jamaica Ave
Claim to Fame: Home of the FDA Regional Testing Laboratory
Website: york.cuny.edu
School of Labor and Urban Studies
Size: 400
Most Popular Major: Urban and Community Studies
What’s Nearby: Bryant Park, Grand Central, Times Square, Broadway, Rockefeller Center, MoMA
Claim to Fame: The university’s newest school and the only interdisciplinary program in Labor and Urban Studies in the nation
Website: slu.cuny.edu
CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY SoM)
Size: 400
The CUNY School of Medicine offers an accelerated 7 year BS/MD program dedicated to producing highly-skilled, knowledgeable medical practitioners who provide quality health care to historically underserved communities. CSOM admits students straight from high school into our biomedical program and offers a seamless transition into the medical school curriculum.
Website: ccny.cuny.edu/csom
CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies (CUNY BA)
CUNY BA facilitates collaboration between motivated students and faculty mentors from colleges across CUNY in designing individualized programs of study. CUNY BA has more than 8,000 alumni; Fulbright, Marshall, and Truman scholars; more than $3M for fellowships; study abroad programs; firstgeneration college students; special projects; and more!
Website: cunyba.cuny.edu
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