New York University

Overview

New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, New York. In 1831, it was chartered by the New York State Legislature and was founded in the same year. The university is the largest American private university by enrollment. With a highly selective admission, NYU receives the highest number of applications among all private U.S. universities.

New York University Key Statistics

The university comprises 10 undergraduate schools and 15 graduate schools. These academic units include the Tandon School of Engineering, Stern School of Business, Tisch School of Arts, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Rory Meyers School of Nursing, and the Grossman School of Medicine. Some of its top course offerings include law, public policy, applied math, occupational therapy, economics, political science, and medicine.

New York University's student population is approximately 51,848 students, composed of 26,733 undergraduates and 25,115 postgraduates. It employs 9,835 academic staff and 2,242 administrative staff. With its main campus in New York City, NYU has degree-granting campuses in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi as well as academic centers such as in Washington, D.C., Tel Aviv, Sydney, Prague, Paris, Madrid, London, Florence, Buenos Aires, and Berlin.

The other New York University key statistics include faculty and alumni that include 17 billionaires, two Federal Reserve Chairmen, 58 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 12 U.S. Senators, four mayors of New York City, five U.S. governors, one U.S. Supreme Court justice, and three heads of state.

New York University Research

NYU is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity." In 2017, it set a record-breaking research expenditure of over $0.9 billion, sourced from various government and private businesses, including the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Army Research Laboratory, as well as Google, Microsoft, Boeing, and Twitter.

Its top fields of research are medicine, biology, and computer science. New York University research outputs have been published in major scholarly journals like Social Science Research Network, The Lancet, and Science. Its researchers have attended key international conferences such as the International Conference on Learning Representations, Neural Information Processing Systems, and the European Conference on Computer Vision.

The most cited New York University research publication is LeCun et al.’s (2015) “Deep learning.” This was published in Nature and has been cited 39,561 times to date. NYU’s second most cited publication is Mallat’s (1989) “A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: The wavelet representation,” which was published in the IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and has received 29,431 citations. In addition, the university’s third most cited publication is Arnett et al.’s (1988) “The American Rheumatism Association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis,” which was featured in Arthritis & Rheumatism and has been cited 24,374 times.

The university has several research centers and institutes, including the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center, Center for Bioethics, and the Center for Cognitive Neurology. NYU has also produced 26 Pulitzer Prize winners, 38 Nobel Laureates, 31 MacArthur Fellows, 5 Fields Medalists, and 8 Turing Award winners.