1 The CUNY Colleges
Baruch College, Brooklyn College, City College, Hunter College, John
Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lehman College, Medgar Evers College,
New York City College of Technology, Queens College, The College of
Staten Island, York College, Borough of Manhattan Community College,
Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College, Kingsborough
Community College, LaGuardia Community College, Queensborough Community
College, The Graduate Center, CUNY School of Journalism, CUNY School of Law, School of Professional Studies, The William E. Macaulay Honors
College at CUNY, and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.
2 Distinguished Alumni
Jonas Salk, Colin Powell, Oscar
Hijuelos, Ira Gershwin, Felix Frankfurter, Ruby Dee, Judd Hirsch, Jimmy
Smits, Andrew Grove, Walter Mosley, Gertrude Elion, Jerry Seinfeld,
Shirley Chisholm, Jimmy Smits, Iyanla Vanzant, Ivan Seidenberg, Paul
Simon, Ada Louise Huxtable, Julius Axelrod, Herman Badillo, Robert
Catell, Sy Stemberg, Martina Arroyo, Alan Dershowitz, Barbara Boxer,
William E. Macaulay, Marvin Hamlisch....
3 Return on Investment
Ninety percent of CUNY graduates remain in New York City one year after
graduation, and 80 percent remain 10 years after graduating. As
taxpayers, workers, and business owners, they repay many times over the
investment made in their education. CUNY graduates rank first among the
nation's universities in the number of alumni who are top-level
business executives according to Standard and Poor's.
4 Student Need
CUNY provides opportunity to students who
need it most. Six of 10 CUNY students come from households earning
$30,000 or less. Seven of 10 work part or full time.
5 Opportunity
Sixty-two percent of all CUNY students are women. CUNY colleges are
among the nation's top sources of doctoral, master's, and baccalaureate
degrees earned by minority students in all disciplines. CUNY is one of
the nation's leading producers of black and Hispanic engineers and
physicians.
6 College/School Partnerships
CUNY is the largest partner
with New York City's public schools, producing at least one-third of
all newly licensed teachers in New York City, enrolling more than
37,000 students in its College Now program, and housing 15
CUNY-affiliated high schools on its campuses. CUNY students pass the
teacher certification exams at a 93 percent rate-the highest since
testing began.
7 Health First
CUNY produces almost half of all newly licensed nurses in New York
City. In the last decade alone, an additional 14,000 students graduated
from non-nursing health sciences programs, serving the city as doctors,
paramedics, physical therapists, and other health professionals.
8 Serving New York
At least one-third of college-educated
New Yorkers are CUNY graduates. Each year, CUNY enrolls almost half of
all college students in New York City.
9 Diversity
In a global economy, CUNY is the global university. CUNY students hail from 167 countries and speak 119 languages.
10 Award-winning Faculty
CUNY's world-class faculty are recipients of Pulitzer Prizes, Oscars
and Emmy Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, Fulbrights, and Carnegie
Teacher of the Year awards, and have been named U.S. Poet Laureate.
Pioneering faculty research generated more than $300 million in
external funding in 2003.
11 Accountability
CUNY's institutional renewal-including strengthening academic and admission standards, hiring 900 additional full-time faculty, reforming teacher education and testing programs, and expanding partnerships with public schools has led to better-prepared and better-performing students, with higher average SAT scores and retention rates, and its highest enrollment since 1975.
12 Quality
CUNY top-tier senior colleges consistently achieve high rankings in
U.S. News & World Report. CUNY community colleges are recognized
leaders in the national Survey of Student Engagement. CUNY academic
programs such as John Jay College of Criminal Justice's graduate
program in public administration, Hunter College's School of Social
Work, and the Graduate Center's doctoral programs rank at top levels.
The first-ever CUNY Honors College has attracted high academic
achievers in record numbers. For the first time two students, from The
City College and Brooklyn College, were named Rhodes Scholars this year.
