List of City University of New York institutions

Not to be confused with List of colleges and universities in New York (state) or List of colleges and universities in New York City.

The City University of New York (CUNY) system is the public university system of New York City. CUNY consists of 11 senior colleges, 7 community colleges, 1 honors college and 7 postgraduate institutions. As of 2018, CUNY is the United States' largest urban public university, with an enrollment of over 274,000 students.

CUNY and the State University of New York (SUNY) are different university systems, despite the fact that both are public institutions that receive funding from the state of New York. The 64 SUNY and 25 CUNY campus institutions are part of University of the State of New York (USNY). USNY is the governmental umbrella organization for most education-related institutions and many education-related personnel (both public and private) in the state of New York, and which includes, as a component, the New York State Education Department.

All of these schools are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, in addition to other program-specific accreditations held by individual campuses, such as Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.

History

CUNY's history dates back to the formation of the Free Academy in 1847 by Townsend Harris. The school was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the … city and county of New York". The Free Academy later became the City College of New York, the oldest institution among the CUNY colleges. From this grew a system of seven senior colleges, four hybrid schools, six community colleges, as well as graduate schools and professional programs. CUNY was established in 1961 as the umbrella institution encompassing the municipal colleges and a new graduate school.

Over the years, the configuration of the institutions of CUNY has changed. The current College of Staten Island, the largest CUNY school by land area, is the result of a merger between Richmond College (upper-division college founded in 1965) and Staten Island Community College (lower-division college founded in 1955). Lehman College was formerly a branch campus of Hunter College that was known as Hunter-in-the-Bronx.

The City College is the oldest institution of CUNY, having been founded in 1847. Established in 2018, the School of Labor and Urban Studies is the newest addition to the university.

Institutions

Image	Name	Borough	Founded[a]	Type	Enrollment (2019)	Male/ Female %	References	Notes
	Baruch College	Manhattan	1968	Senior	18,679	48%/52%		—
	The City College	Manhattan	1847	Senior	15,465	52%/48%		—
CUNY Graduate Center	Graduate Center	Manhattan	1961	Graduate	3,603	43%/57%		—
	Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy	Manhattan	2008	Graduate	746	27%/73%		—
	Guttman Community College	Manhattan	2011	Junior	1,022	45%/55%		—
Thomas Hunter Hall	Hunter College	Manhattan	1870	Senior	23,193	32%/68%		—
Haaren Hall	John Jay College of Criminal Justice	Manhattan	1964	Senior	15,880	42%/58%		Originally known as the College of Police Science.
	Macaulay Honors College	Manhattan	2001	Senior	[b]	[b]		—
	Manhattan Community College	Manhattan	1963	Junior	25,550	43%/57%		—
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in the renovated former headquarters of the old New York Herald Tribune on West 40th Street	Newmark Graduate School of Journalism	Manhattan	2006	Graduate	232	35%/65%		—
	School of Labor and Urban Studies	Manhattan	2018	Graduate	364	37%/63%		Originally the Murphy Institute, established at Queens College in 1984 and moved to the School of Professional Studies in 2005.
	School of Medicine	Manhattan	1973	Graduate	351	33%/67%		—
	School of Professional Studies	Manhattan	2003	Graduate	3,558	30%/70%		—
	Bronx Community College	The Bronx	1957	Junior	10,040	44%/56%		—
Hostos Community College pedestrian walkway	Hostos Community College	The Bronx	1968	Junior	7,120	34%/66%		—
Lehman College music building	Lehman College	The Bronx	1968	Senior	15,143	32%/68%		Formerly the Bronx branch of Hunter College.
The east quadrangle of Brooklyn College	Brooklyn College	Brooklyn	1930	Senior	17,811	42%/58%		—
	College of Technology	Brooklyn	1946	Senior	17,036	55%/45%		—
Kingsborough Community College	Kingsborough Community College	Brooklyn	1963	Junior	15,443	45%/55%		—
The Academic Complex Building of Medgar Evers College	Medgar Evers College	Brooklyn	1969	Senior	5,550	29%/71%		—
The college campus	College of Staten Island	Staten Island	1976	Senior	12,782	44%/56%		Result of a merger of Richmond College (1965) and Staten Island Community College (1955).
Building E	LaGuardia Community College	Queens	1971	Junior	18,555	42%/58%		—
Queens College Quad	Queens College	Queens	1937	Senior	19,923	43%/57%		—
Queensborough Community College	Queensborough Community College	Queens	1958	Junior	14,035	47%/53%		Transferred to CUNY from the SUNY system in 1965.
	School of Law	Queens	1983	Graduate	626	39%/61%		—
Academic Core Building	York College	Queens	1966	Senior	8,337	33%/67%		—

Notes

• ^a Each college's founding year is linked to the category of all schools founded in that year
• ^b Enrollment and Gender ratio data not provided for these units.

External links

• CUNY website Archived 2007-03-06 at the Wayback Machine