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About CUNY
About Us
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 Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.
The University serves more than 231,000 degree-credit students and 230,000
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 280 buildings
on almost 23 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.
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