City University of New York

Overview

City University of New York

City University of New York (CUNY) is a public university system in New York City, New York. It was established in 1961 but its formative years date back to 1847. It is notable for offering high-quality, tuition-free education to the underprivileged but qualified residents of New York City. It is the biggest urban university system and considered among the top public universities in NYC.

City University of New York Key Statistics

CUNY is made up of 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, one undergraduate honors college, and seven post-graduate institutions. Some of the colleges are the Baruch College, the Hunter College, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the Hostos Community College, and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. The university offers over 1,750 programs and majors.

The City University of New York has a population of 274,000 students, almost 20,000 academic staff, and over 33,000 administrative staff. It has 25 campuses spread across the city’s five boroughs, namely, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

Its library system is a combination of 31 libraries and the CUNY Central Office of Library Services. The libraries are rooted in local, state, and global networks that extend access to owned and licensed material. It has around 6.2 million printed volumes, over 3,500 electronic databases, and over 300,000 e-books.

Other City University of New York key statistics include 24 MacArthur Fellows amongst its alumni and several others who are making contributions to the field of business, science, the arts, and a myriad of other fields.

City University of New York Research

CUNY, via its Office of Research, provides a number of research-related, internal funding programs to its faculty. These programs are designed to promote research collaborations among the colleges.

Its top three fields of research are medicine, physics, and psychology. Its researchers' outputs have been published in The Lancet, Social Science Research Network, and Science. Some of the top conferences where the university's researchers have presented papers/attended include Health Information Science, the Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The most cited publication by the City University of New York is Phillips et al.'s (2006) article, “Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions,” published in Ecological Modelling. This received 13,613 citations to date. The second most cited article is Olive et al.’s (2014) “Review of particle physics,” published in Chinese Physics C. This has received 12,848 citations. The third most cited publication is Elith et al.'s (2006) paper, “Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data,” published in Ecography. This paper has been cited 7,862 times.

CUNY has over a hundred research centers, institutes, and consortia. Some of these include the CUNY Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies, the Advanced Science Research Center, and the Neuroscience Research Center.

Other City University of New York research statistics includes 13 Nobel Laureates and two Fields Medalists, winners of academic awards such as the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the National Institute of Health’s Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program.