New York University (NYU) is a
private
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research university
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in
New York City
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. Chartered in 1831 by the
New York State Legislature
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,
NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-
Secretary of the Treasury
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Albert Gallatin
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.
In 1832, the
non-denominational all-male institution began its first classes near
City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a
secular education
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.
The university moved in 1833 and has maintained its main campus in
Greenwich Village
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surrounding
Washington Square Park
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.
Since then, the university has added an engineering school in
Brooklyn's MetroTech Center and graduate schools throughout
Manhattan
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. NYU has become the largest private university in the United States by enrollment, with a total of 51,848 enrolled students, including 26,733 undergraduate students and 25,115 graduate students, in 2019.
NYU also receives the most applications of any private institution in the United States and admission is considered
highly selective.
NYU is organized into ten undergraduate schools, including the
College of Arts & Science,
Gallatin School
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,
Steinhardt School,
Stern School of Business,
Tandon School of Engineering
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Notable people
Notable people include:
Activists
*Purushottam Das Tandon, ''Bharat Ratna'', Indian free ...
, and
Tisch School of the Arts
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Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...
.
NYU's 15 graduate schools include the
Grossman School of Medicine,
School of Law
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,
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
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History
In 1938, NYU of ...
,
School of Professional Studies,
Silver School of Social Work, and
Rory Meyers School of Nursing.
The university's internal academic centers include the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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,
Center for Data Science,
Center for Neural Science
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,
Clive Davis Institute,
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
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,
Institute of Fine Arts
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, and the
NYU Langone Health System
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. NYU is a global university with degree-granting campuses at
NYU Abu Dhabi and
NYU Shanghai
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, and academic centers in
Accra,
Berlin
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,
Buenos Aires
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,
Florence
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,
London
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,
Los Angeles
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,
Madrid
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,
Paris
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,
Prague
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,
Sydney,
Tel Aviv
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, and
Washington, D.C.
)
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Past and present
faculty and
alumni
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include 39 Nobel Laureates, 8 Turing Award winners, 5 Fields Medalists, 31
MacArthur Fellows, 26
Pulitzer Prize winners, 3
heads of state
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, a
U.S. Supreme Court justice, 5
U.S. governors, 4
mayors of New York City
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, 12
U.S. Senators
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, 58 members of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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, two
Federal Reserve Chairmen, 38
Academy Award
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winners, 30
Emmy Award winners, 25
Tony Award
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winners, 12
Grammy Award
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winners, 17
billionaires, and
seven Olympic medalists.
History
Albert Gallatin
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Genevan–American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. Often described as "America's Swiss Founding Father", he was a leading figure in the early years o ...
,
Secretary of the Treasury
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under
Thomas Jefferson
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and
James Madison
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, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city ... a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all."
A three-day-long "literary and scientific convention" held in
City Hall in 1830 and attended by over 100 delegates debated the terms of a plan for a new university. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class.
On April 18, 1831, the institution that would become NYU was established with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the city's
merchants,
banker
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Becaus ...
s, and
traders.
Albert Gallatin was elected as its first president.
On April 21, 1831, the new institution received its
charter and was incorporated as the University of the City of New York by the
New York State Legislature
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; older documents often refer to it by that name. The university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896.
In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall.
In 1835, the
School of Law
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, NYU's first professional school, was established. Although the impetus to found a new school was partly a reaction by
evangelical
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Presbyterian
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s to what they perceived as the
Episcopalianism of
Columbia College,
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non-denominational, unlike many American colleges at the time.
The
American Chemical Society
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was founded in 1876 at NYU.
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Soon after its founding, it became one of the nation's largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917. The university purchased a campus at
University Heights in
the Bronx
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because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York City's development further uptown. NYU's move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor
Henry Mitchell MacCracken.
The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was. As a result, most of the university's operations, along with the undergraduate
College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering, were housed there. NYU's administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the graduate schools of the university remained at Washington Square. In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the downtown undergraduate college of NYU. In 1935, NYU opened the "Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island." This extension would later become a fully independent
Hofstra University.
In 1950, NYU was elected to the
Association of American Universities
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, a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities.
Financial crisis gripped the New York City government in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the troubles spread to the city's institutions, including NYU.
Feeling the pressures of imminent bankruptcy, NYU President
James McNaughton Hester
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Hester was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He spent his boyhood at various stations to which his father, a United States Navy Chaplain, was ...
negotiated the sale of the University Heights campus to the
City University of New York, which occurred in 1973.
In 1973, the New York University School of Engineering and Science merged into
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
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,
which eventually merged back into NYU in 2014, forming the present
Tandon School of Engineering
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Notable people
Notable people include:
Activists
*Purushottam Das Tandon, ''Bharat Ratna'', Indian free ...
. After the sale of the Bronx campus, University College merged with Washington Square College. In the 1980s, under the leadership of President
John Brademas
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, NYU launched a billion-dollar campaign that was spent almost entirely on updating facilities. The campaign was set to complete in 15 years, but ended up being completed in 10.
In 1991,
L. Jay Oliva Lawrence Jay Oliva (September 23, 1933 – April 17, 2014), known as L. Jay Oliva, was the 14th President of New York University.
Born in Walden, New York he earned a B.A. from Manhattan College (1955) and a M.A. (1957)/Ph.D. (1960) from Syracuse U ...
was inaugurated the 14th president of the university. Following his inauguration, he moved to form the
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, an international organization consisting of
rectors and
president
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* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
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s from
urban
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* Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities
Urban may also refer to:
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* Urban (name), a list of people ...
universities
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across six continents. The league and its 47 representatives gather every two years to discuss global issues in
education
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.
In 2003, President
John Sexton
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launched a $2.5 billion campaign for funds to be spent especially on faculty and financial aid resources. Under Sexton's leadership, NYU also began its radical transformation into a global university.
In 2009, the university responded to a series of interviews in ''
The New York Times
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'' that showed a pattern of labor abuses at its fledgling Abu Dhabi location, creating a statement of labor values for Abu Dhabi campus workers. A 2014 follow-up article found that while some conditions had improved, contractors for the university were still frequently subjecting their workers to third-world labor conditions. The article documented that these conditions included confiscation of worker passports, forced overtime, recruitment fees and cockroach-filled dorms where workers had to sleep under beds. According to the article, workers who attempted to protest the NYU contractors' conditions were promptly arrested.
Reports also claimed that those arrested by police were later abused at the police station. Many workers who were not local were then deported to their home countries. The university quickly responded to the reports with an apology to the workers. Though the campus construction costs were entirely funded by the Abu Dhabi government, as will be the operational costs and any future expansions, in 2015, NYU additionally compensated thousands of migrant workers on its Abu Dhabi complex.
From 2007 to 2018, NYU experienced a 114% increase in applications to its university system, increasing from around 35,000 applicants to more than 100,000 in 2020.
This has also caused the acceptance rate to drop significantly, with a record-low acceptance rate of 15% in 2020.
In parallel to NYU's expansion in the early 1900s, the university similarly expanded vigorously in the early 2000s, becoming the largest private university in the United States with a combined undergraduate/graduate enrollment of over 59,000 students as of 2018.
In August 2018, the
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
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announced it would be offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD program regardless of need or merit, making it the only top-10 medical school in the United States to do so.
In Spring 2022, President
Andrew D. Hamilton
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announced that the 2023 academic year would be his last, returning to research.
University logo
The university logo, the upheld
torch
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, is derived from the
Statue of Liberty, signifying NYU's service to New York City. The torch is depicted on both the NYU seal and the more abstract NYU logo, designed in 1965 by renowned graphic designer
Tom Geismar
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Biography
Thomas H. Geismar was born on July 15, 1931 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
Geismar studied concurrently at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. H ...
of the branding and design firm
Chermayeff & Geismar
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About
It was founded in 1957 ...
. There are at least two versions of the possible origin of the university color,
violet
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. Some believe that it may have been chosen because
violets
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are said to have grown abundantly in Washington Square and around the buttresses of the Old University Building. Others argue that the color may have been adopted because the violet was the flower associated with
Athens
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, the center of learning in
ancient Greece
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.
Cultural setting
Washington Square and
Greenwich Village
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have been hubs of
cultural life in New York City since the early 19th century. Much of this culture has intersected with NYU at various points in its history.
Artists of the
Hudson River School
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, the United States' first prominent school of painters, settled around Washington Square.
Samuel F.B. Morse
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, a noted artist who also pioneered the telegraph and created the Morse Code, served as the first chair of Painting and Sculpture. He and
Daniel Huntington were early tenants of the Old University Building in the mid-19th century. (The university rented out studio space and residential apartments within the "academic" building.) As a result, they had notable interaction with the cultural and academic life of the university.
In the 1870s, sculptors
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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and
Daniel Chester French lived and worked near the Square. By the 1920s, Washington Square Park was nationally recognized as a focal point for artistic and moral rebellion. As such, the Washington Square campus became more diverse and bustled with urban energy, contributing to academic change at NYU.
Famed residents of this time include
Eugene O'Neill
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,
John Sloan
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, and
Maurice Prendergast
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. In the 1930s, the abstract expressionists
Jackson Pollock
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and
Willem de Kooning
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, and the realists
Edward Hopper
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Hopper created subdued drama ...
and
Thomas Hart Benton had studios around Washington Square. In the 1960s the area became one of the centers of the beat and folk generation, when
Allen Ginsberg
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and
Bob Dylan
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settled there. This led to tension with the university, which at the time was in the midst of an aggressive facilities expansion phase.
In 1975, the university opened The
Grey Art Gallery
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at 100 Washington Square East, housing the NYU art collection and featuring museum quality exhibitions.
Budget and fundraising
NYU has successfully completed a seven-year, $2.5 billion campaign, surpassing expectations by raising more than $3 billion over the seven-year period. Started in 2001, this campaign was the university's largest in its history, in which they planned to "raise $1 million per day for scholarships and financial aid, faculty building, new academic initiatives, and enhancing NYU's physical facilities."
The campaign included a $50 million gift from the Tisch family (after which one building and the
art school
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are named) and a $60 million gift from six
trustee
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s called "The Partners Fund", aimed at hiring new faculty.
On October 15, 2007, the university announced that the Silver family donated $50 million to the
School of Social Work
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, which will be renamed as a result. This is the largest donation ever to a school of social work in the United States.
The 2007–2008 academic year was the most successful fundraising year to date for NYU, with the school raising $698 million in only the first 11 months of the year, representing a 70% increase in donations from the prior year. The university also recently announced plans for NYU's Call to Action, a new initiative to ask alumni and donors to support financial aid for students at NYU.
The university has announced a 25-year strategic development plan, scheduled to coincide with its bicentennial in 2031. Included in the "NYU 200" plans are increasing resident and academic space, hiring additional faculty, and involving the New York City community in a transparent planning process. Additionally, NYU hopes to make their buildings more environmentally friendly, which will be facilitated by an evaluation of all campus spaces. As a part of this plan, NYU purchased 118 million kilowatt-hours of wind power during the 2006–2007 academic year – the largest purchase of wind power by any university in the country and any institution in New York City.
For 2007, the university expanded its purchase of wind power to 132 million kilowatt-hours.
As a result, the
EPA
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ranked NYU as one of the greenest colleges in the country in its annual College & University Green Power Challenge.
NYU consistently ranks as one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, raising $506.4 million in 2015 and $648 million in 2016. NYU is also the 19th wealthiest university in America with $5.3 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.
Campus
NYU's
New York City
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campus includes more than 171 buildings spread between
Manhattan
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and
Brooklyn
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. Most of the school's buildings in Manhattan are located across a roughly area bounded by
Houston Street
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to the south,
Broadway
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Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
to the east,
14th Street to the north, and
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west. The core of NYU consists of buildings that surround Washington Square Park.
In addition to its New York campus, NYU has 49 additional buildings overseas located throughout two 'portal' campuses and 12 Global Academic Centers.
Washington Square campus
![NYC_-_Washington_Square_Park_-_Arch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/NYC_-_Washington_Square_Park_-_Arch.jpg)
Since the late 1970s, the central part of NYU has been its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. The Washington Square Arch is an unofficial symbol of NYU. Until 2007, NYU had held its commencement ceremonies in Washington Square Park, but because of renovations to Washington Square moved the 2008 ceremonies to the
original Yankee Stadium and all subsequent ones to the
current Yankee Stadium.
The
Silver Center for Arts and Science, home to the
College of Arts & Science and the
Graduate School of Arts & Science, is one of the main academic buildings on the Washington Square campus. It is located on Washington Square East, between Washington Place and
Waverly Place
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, and many individual departments of the two schools it houses are located in its vicinity. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt Hall, the main building for the
School of Law
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Law degrees Argentina
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, is located near the southwest corner of Washington Square between
Macdougal Street
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and
Sullivan Street
Sullivan Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, which previously ran north from Duarte Square at Canal Street, but since around 2012 begins at Broome Street, to Washington Square South, through the neighborhoods of Hudson Square, SoHo, the So ...
on
Washington Square South. The Kimmel Center for University Life is also on Washington Square South, and is the primary hub for student life at the university, providing event and meeting space for student organizations and other gatherings. Located closer to the eastern edge of the campus along Broadway are the main buildings for the
Tisch School of the Arts
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University.
Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...
and the
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study (commonly referred to as Gallatin) is a small interdisciplinary college within New York University (NYU). Students at Gallatin design an interdisciplinary program that meets their specific interests a ...
, as well as the main office for
Liberal Studies
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and NYU's Bookstore and
Student Health Center. Other nearby university buildings and complexes of note include 5 Washington Place, which houses NYU's distinguished
Department of Philosophy, 7 East 12th Street, which serves as the main building for the
School of Professional Studies, the
Brown Building, which was the location of the infamous
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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before its acquisition by NYU, as well as
Washington Square Village and
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*University Village, Chicago, Illinois
*University Village, Grand Forks, North Dakota
* University Village, New York
* University Village, Riverside, California
*University Villa ...
, two housing complexes for faculty members and graduate students. Undergraduate
residence halls
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in the immediate surroundings of Washington Square include Goddard Hall, Lipton Hall, and Weinstein Hall, while those that are slightly farther but still nearby include Brittany Hall and Rubin Hall.
In the 1990s, NYU became a "two square" university by building a second community around
Union Square
Union commonly refers to:
* Trade union, an organization of workers
* Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets
Union may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
* Union (band), an American rock group
** ''Un ...
, in close proximity to Washington Square. NYU's Union Square community primarily consists of the priority residence halls of Carlyle Court,
Palladium
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Residence Hall, Alumni Hall, Coral Tower, Thirteenth Street Hall, University Hall, Third North Residence Hall, and Founders Hall.
On its Washington Square campus, NYU operates theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the Tisch School of the Arts as well as the university's
music conservatory
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...
, which is within the
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. External productions are also occasionally held in NYU's facilities. The largest performance accommodations at NYU are the
Skirball Center for Performing Arts
The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, generally known as NYU Skirball, is an 850-seat theater at 566 LaGuardia Place in Manhattan, New York, owned by New York University. It was named after philanthropist Jack H. Skirball. The the ...
(850 seats) at 566 LaGuardia Place, just south of Washington Square South, and the Eisner-Lubin Auditorium (560 seats) in the Kimmel Center. Notably, the Skirball Center has hosted important speeches on foreign policy by
John Kerry
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and
Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic no ...
. The Skirball Center is the largest performing arts facility south of
42nd Street.
NYU also has international houses meant to foster the study of particular cultures and languages on its Washington Square campus, including the Deutsches Haus,
La Maison Française,
Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Glucksman Ireland House, the
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, the
Hagop Kevorkian
Hagop Kevorkian ( hy, Յակոբ Գեւորգեան; 1872 – 1962) was an Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector. Originally from Kayseri, and a graduate of the American Robert College in Istanbul, he settled in New ...
Center, an Africa House, and a China House. Most of these international houses are located on
Washington Mews
Washington Mews is a private gated street in New York City between Fifth Avenue and University Place just north of Washington Square Park. Along with MacDougal Alley and Stuyvesant Street, it was originally part of a Lenape trail which connect ...
, a private street north of Washington Square Park.
The closest
New York City Subway stations servicing the Washington Square campus are
Eighth Street–New York University and
West Fourth Street–Washington Square. In addition, NYU runs its own shuttle service, University Transportation Services, linking the Washington Square campus to other university locations and major transit hubs.
Gould Plaza
The Jeffrey S. Gould Plaza, located between
Washington Square East and
Mercer Street on West 4th Street, is surrounded by the buildings for some departments of the College of Arts and Science as well as the main buildings for the
Stern School of Business and the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...
. Other NYU buildings near the plaza include the Bonomi Family
Admissions Center, the Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center, the Alumni Relations building, Goddard Hall, Frederick Loewe Theatre, and the main building for the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, as well as unrelated religious institutions such as
Judson Memorial Church
The Judson Memorial Church is located on Washington Square South between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street, near Gould Plaza, opposite Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...
, the
Islamic Center at NYU, and
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
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. Because of its high student traffic during the academic year, Gould Plaza has become a popular meeting spot for NYU students and a performance area for
street musicians and buskers.
Bobst Library
![Bobst Library (48072704803)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Bobst_Library_%2848072704803%29.jpg)
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, built between 1967 and 1972, is the largest library at NYU and one of the largest academic libraries in the United States. Designed by
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the po ...
and
Richard Foster, the 12-story, structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park (at 70 Washington Square South) and is the flagship of an eight-library, 4.5 million-volume system. Bobst Library offers one Multidisciplinary Reference Center, a Research Commons, of open-stacks shelving, and approximately 2,000 seats for student study. The library is visited by more than 6,800 users each day, and circulates more than one million books annually.
Bobst's Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media is one of the world's largest academic media centers, where students and researchers use more than 95,000 audio and video recordings per year.
Bobst Library is also home to many special collections. The
Fales Collection houses collections of English and American fiction in the United States, the unique Downtown Collection, documenting the New York literary avant-garde arts scene from the 1970s to the present, and the Food and Cookery Collection, which documents American food history with a focus on New York City. Bobst Library also houses the Tamiment Library, which holds collections in labor history, socialism, anarchism, communism, and American radicalism for scholarly research. Tamiment includes the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, the Archives of Irish America, the Center for the Cold War and the U.S., and the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center.
Bobst Library made headlines in the early 2000s when
Steven Stanzak, who is also known as "Bobst Boy", gained a following for living in Bobst Library after he was unable to pay for board at the university and began to write about his life on a self published blog. The story was reported by ''
Washington Square News
''Washington Square News (WSN)'' is the weekly student newspaper of New York University (NYU). It has a circulation of 10,000 and an estimated 55,000 online readers. It is published in print on Monday, in addition to online publication Tuesday thr ...
'' before becoming an overnight national sensation, which helped Stanzak receive financial assistance from NYU until graduation.
Brooklyn campus
NYU's Brooklyn campus is located at
MetroTech Center, an urban academic-industrial
research park
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Asia
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.
It sits on top of the
Jay Street–MetroTech station
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, is only a few blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to NYU's Manhattan campus via the NYU Shuttle Bus System. It houses the Tandon School of Engineering, the
Center for Urban Science and Progress
The NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (commonly referred to as CUSP) is a degree-granting technology and research institute in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It is a graduate school of New York University focusing on urban informatics ...
and also several of Tisch School of the Arts
and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's degree programs.
MetroTech Commons, the 3.5-acre (14,000 m
2)
privately owned public space
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at the heart of the MetroTech complex, functions as a quad for students at the Brooklyn campus in much the same way that Washington Square Park does for students at the main campus, hosting events including concerts, health fairs, chess tournaments and holiday celebrations. Bounded by Lawrence and Duffield Streets, the square is frequently adorned by modern art exhibits. Two pieces called ''Alligator'' and ''Visionary'' are part of the Commons' permanent public art collection by the well-known sculptor
Tom Otterness
Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor best known as one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's ...
.
The Brooklyn campus is home to NYU's Game Center Open Library, which is the largest collection of games held by any university in the world,
as well as the NYU MakerSpace and Design Lab, which allows all NYU students who undergo training sessions to access advanced
3D printing
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,
prototyping
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming. A prototype is generally used to ...
,
CNC machining
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, and
stress testing devices.
In 2014,
NYU Langone Medical Center
NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and ...
acquired a healthcare facility in Brooklyn. Quickly following this announcement, NYU announced in 2017 that it would invest over $500 million in the coming years to renovate and expand its Brooklyn campus, including
370 Jay Street, which opened in December 2017.
Other NY metropolitan area facilities
![NYU_Langone_Medical_Center_(41246168170)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/NYU_Langone_Medical_Center_%2841246168170%29.jpg)
The NYU Langone Health medical center is situated near the East River waterfront at 550 First Avenue between East
30th and
34th Streets. The campus hosts the
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital, and the
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
Rusk Rehabilitation is the world's first and among the largest university-affiliated academic centers devoted entirely to inpatient/outpatient care, research, and training in rehabilitation medicine for both adults and pediatric patients. The sys ...
. Other NYU and NYU-affiliated medical centers across the city include the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, the
NYU Langone Hospital — Brooklyn, and the
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue Hospital (officially NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and formerly known as Bellevue Hospital Center) is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States. One of the largest hospitals in the United States ...
. In Mineola, Long Island, the
NYU Langone Hospital — Long Island
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In 1832, ...
campus is home to NYU's second medical school, the NYU Long Island School of Medicine.
NYU's Silver School of Social Work (formerly Ehrenkranz School of Social Work) manages branch campus programs in
Westchester County
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at
Sarah Lawrence College and in
Rockland County
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at
St. Thomas Aquinas College.
In
Sterling Forest, near
Tuxedo
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, NYU has a research facility that contains various institutes, in particular the Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine. The Midtown Center at 11 West 42nd Street is home to the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. The
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is an early skyscraper, early American skyscraper designed by architect Cass Gilbert located at 233 Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the tallest building in ...
in the financial district is home to some of NYU's professional studies and education programs.
NYU has two units located on the
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park/Fifth Avenue to the wes ...
. The
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University. ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the ancient world from the ...
, a discrete entity within NYU, independent of any other school or department of the university, is located on East 84th Street, while the
Institute of Fine Arts
The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) of New York University is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philos ...
, a graduate school of art history and fine arts, is located at the
James B. Duke House
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at 1 East 78th Street. Additionally, the nearby Stephen Chan House at 14 East 78th Street houses the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, which boasts the oldest graduate degree-granting
conservation
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Conservation may also refer to:
Environment and natural resources
* Nature conservation, the protection and managem ...
program in the world.
Global campuses and sites
NYU has a host of foreign facilities used for
study away programs, referred to as Global Academic Centers. , NYU operates 12 academic sites in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, including undergraduate academic-year and summer study away programs in
Accra,
Berlin
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,
Buenos Aires
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,
Florence
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,
London
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,
Los Angeles
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,
Madrid
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,
Paris
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,
Prague
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,
Sydney,
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
, and
Washington, D.C.
)
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One of the most noteworthy sites is the campus of NYU Florence, located at
Villa LaPietra in Italy. The estate was bequeathed by the late Sir
Harold Acton
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to NYU in 1994, and at the time it was the largest donation to a university in history. In spring 2014, NYU Paris moved to a new campus, formerly occupied by the
École Spéciale des Travaux Publics
École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie (ESTP Paris) is a French engineering school and grande école located in Paris.
History
The ESTP was founded in 1891 by Léon Eyrolles and was officially recognized by the St ...
(ESTP Paris), in the student area of the
Quartier Latin
The Latin Quarter of Paris (french: Quartier latin, ) is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne.
Known for its student life, lively atmosphere, and bistros ...
, where NYU Law also set up an EU Regulatory Policy Clinic in partnership with
HEC Paris taught by
Alberto Alemanno
Alberto Alemanno (born 30 April 1975 in Turin, Italy) is an academic, author, public interest lawyer, and civic entrepreneur. He is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009, permanent Visiting scholar, Visiting Professor at the Un ...
and
Vincent Chauvet
Vincent Chauvet (born 24 October 1987) is a French politician serving as Mayor of Autun since 2017. A member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), he has presided over the party's Saône-et-Loire federation since 2015. Chauvet is the co-founder of ...
.
In addition to the Global Academic Centers, NYU also maintains 10 Global Research Initiative Institutes, 9 of them are located in the academic centers at Berlin, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, and Washington DC, with the other being located in Athens. Meant to provide faculty and graduate students with NYU infrastructural support while conducting international research projects, those who are interested can apply for fellowships at all sites during the academic-year and a limited number of sites during the summer.
Abu Dhabi campus
![NYUAbuDhabiSaadiyat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/NYUAbuDhabiSaadiyat.jpg)
In fall 2010, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) opened as the university's first overseas "Portal Campus" with an inaugural class of 150 students. Unlike NYU's other study abroad centers, NYUAD functions as a separate liberal arts college within a university, offering complete degree programs to students admitted directly to NYUAD. NYUAD recruits students from all over the world and describes itself as the "World's Honor College". The main campus for NYUAD is on
Saadiyat Island
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and opened in 2014. Until then, the school operated from a campus located in downtown Abu Dhabi. The campus construction costs were entirely funded by the Abu Dhabi government, as will be the operational costs and any future expansions.
Shanghai campus
![NYUSH_Lujiazui_Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/NYUSH_Lujiazui_Building.jpg)
In 2011, NYU announced plans to open another portal campus, NYU Shanghai, for the fall semester of 2013. It was set to have about 3,000 undergraduate students, the majority of whom would be
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
. It was approved by the
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in January 2011. NYU's local partner would be
East China Normal University
East China Normal University (ECNU) is a comprehensive public research university in Shanghai, China. It was formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University (est. 1924) and Kwang Hua University (est. 1925) and originated from the St. ...
(ECNU). ECNU's president
Yu Lizhong would be the chancellor and play a major role in government relations while
Jeffrey S. Lehman, former president of
Cornell
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach a ...
amongst other positions, would serve as vice chancellor and have "free rein in academic affairs". Since late summer of 2014, NYU Shanghai has been based in
Pudong, Shanghai
Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic city ...
, at 1555 Century Ave. The main campus is contained in a single building, the Academic Center, a new 15-story building with two underground floors. On May 30, 2019, the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new campus building in the
Qiantan International Business Zone. The Qiantan campus building will also be located in Pudong, and is being designed and built by architectural firm
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). The design features four buildings arranged in a pinwheel shape reminiscent of NYU Shanghai's logo, that are connected as one building above the fifth floor. The university hopes to move up to 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students into the new campus by 2022.
Former global campuses
Tisch School of the Arts, Asia was NYU's first branch campus abroad. The result of a partnership between Tisch School of the Arts and the Singapore Government, it offered Master of Fine Arts degrees in animation and digital arts, dramatic writing, film and international media producing. The campus opened in fall 2007 with the intention to enroll approximately 250 students. Anticipated enrollment figures were not achieved, financial irregularities were alleged, and President Pari Sara Shirazi was dismissed from her post by NYU in November 2011. She subsequently announced her intention to commence legal proceedings against NYU alleging wrongful termination and defamation. In a letter to the Tisch Asia community dated November 8, 2012, Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell announced that the campus would close after 2014 with recruitment and admission of new students suspended with immediate effect. In 2016, three former students of the now defunct Tisch Asia sued NYU.
Before moving to its current location at the former campus of ESTP Paris, NYU Paris was located in a small building in the historic neighborhood of
Passy.
Residence halls
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NYU houses approximately 12,000 undergraduate and graduate residents,
and had the seventh-largest university housing system in the U.S. , and one of the largest among private schools.
NYU's undergraduate housing system consists of more than 20 residence halls and is governed by the
Inter-Residence Hall Council (IRHC), an umbrella student council organization.
Uniquely, many of NYU's residence halls are converted
apartment complexes or old hotels. In general, NYU residence halls receive favorable ratings, and some are opulent. Many rooms are spacious and contain amenities considered rare for individual college residence hall rooms, such as kitchens, lavatories, living rooms and common areas. The university operates its own transit system to transport its students by
bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
to its campus. A few of the residence halls are considered to be among the nicest in the nation, being furnished with granite counter-tops, stainless-steel appliances, in-hall gyms, wood flooring, marble bathroom fixtures, large floor lounges, floor to ceiling windows and extensive views of lower and midtown Manhattan.
Undergraduate students are guaranteed housing during their enrollment at NYU and are split into two categories, FYRE (First-Year Residential Experience) and TRUE (The Residential Upperclassmen Experience). Most FYRE halls are located near the Washington Square area. While nearly all TRUE halls are located near the Union Square area, two former residence halls were located in the
Financial District
A financial district is usually a central area in a city where financial services firms such as banks, insurance companies and other related finance corporations have their head offices. In major cities, financial districts are often home to s ...
and one is still in use in
Chinatown. Two residence halls are located in and around the MetroTech Commons, intended to serve NYU's Brooklyn Campus.
In 2007, the
National Association of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH) named NYU the National School of the Year for IRHC and
NRHH's strong efforts over the past year. In addition, NYU was named the National Program of the Year for UltraViolet Live, the annual inter-hall competition that raises funds for
Relay For Life.
Sustainability
NYU has made the greening of its campus a large priority. For example, NYU has been the largest university purchaser of wind energy in the U.S. since 2009.
With this switch to renewable power, NYU is achieving benefits equivalent to removing 12,000 cars from the road or planting 72,000 trees. In May 2008, the NYU Sustainability Task Force awarded $150,000 in grants to 23 projects that would focus research and efforts toward energy, food, landscape, outreach, procurement, transportation and waste.
These projects include a student-led bike-sharing program modeled after Paris' Velib program with 30 bikes free to students, staff, and faculty. NYU received a grade of "B" on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
NYU purchased 118 million
kilowatt-hours
A kilowatt-hour ( unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a unit of energy: one kilowatt of power for one hour. In terms of SI derived units with special names, it equals 3.6 megajoules (MJ). Kilowatt-hours are a common bi ...
of
wind power
Wind power or wind energy is mostly the use of wind turbines to generate electricity. Wind power is a popular, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the environment than burning fossil fuels. Historically ...
during the 2006–2007 academic year – the largest purchase of wind power by any university in the country and any institution in New York City.
For 2007, the university expanded its purchase of wind power to 132 million kilowatt-hours.
The EPA ranked NYU as one of the greenest colleges in the country in its annual College & University Green Power Challenge.
NYU 2031
In 2007, NYU created a strategic plan for a six billion-dollar, 25-year, expansion scheduled to conclude by the university's bicentennial in 2031.
Details of the plan include of additional on-campus housing and of modern academic spaces spread between NYU's New York City campuses.
The expansion started in earnest in 2017 with the groundbreaking o
181 Mercer Street a new multi-purpose building that will act as the flagship athletic facility for NYU, while also accompanying a 350-bed Residence Hall, 58 general purpose classrooms and a 350-seat theater. The roughly , $1.1 billion building is directly adjacent to the south eastern corner of the Washington Square campus and represents a significant focus on the university owned super blocks. Work on the plans second project, 370 Jay Street, a addition to the Brooklyn campus is scheduled to conclude in 2019. The building will house 'the digital arts and sciences' such as the Tandon School of Engineering departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Tisch School of the Arts Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and Game Center and various other NYU initiatives such as the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and NYU Wireless (5G research).
To date, NYU has confirmed specific construction details for its NYU 2031 plan to the tune of at a cost of $1.6 billion with roughly 12 years to go until the university's bicentennial. In order to meet the plans outlined goals on time, the university would have to significantly increase spending, fundraising and construction over the next decade.
Academics
Admissions and scholarships
Admission to NYU is highly selective. For the undergraduate first-year class of 2026, 12.2% were admitted from an applicant pool of more than 100,500.
In 2021, NYU became the first private university in the US to top 100,000 applications.
The College of Arts and Science had an acceptance rate of 7% and the Stern School of Business had a 5.6% acceptance rate for the class of 2025.
Of those admitted, about 6,500 made up the total enrollment for the class, representing 102 countries, all 50 US states, and the
District of Columbia
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. Most freshmen have a typical unweighted GPA of 3.7/A (90–95%) and are in the top 10% of their high school graduating class. The median
SAT
The SAT ( ) is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. Since its debut in 1926, its name and scoring have changed several times; originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was later called the Schol ...
score was 1540 out of 1600 (within the 99th percentile).
The student-to-faculty ratio at the New York campus is 9:1, and less than that at the Abu Dhabi and Shanghai campuses. The average scholarship amount awarded to freshmen is over $35,000, and 20% of freshmen received Pell Grants.
, NYU's graduate schools have acceptance rates of 1.8% to the School of Medicine, 23% to the School of Business,
28% to the School of Engineering, 29% to the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and 34% to the School of Law.
Average
MCAT
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT; ) is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students (both Allopathic M.D. and Ostepathic D.O.) in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Caribbean Islands. It is designe ...
score of students at the School of Medicine is 522, average
GMAT
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT ( ())) is a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management ...
score of graduate students at the School of Business is 723, and the median
LSAT
The Law School Admission Test (LSAT; ) is a standardized test administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess reading comprehension as well as logical and verbal rea ...
score of students at the School of Law is 170.
Schools and leadership
NYU is a private, global, non-sectarian and
not-for-profit institution of higher education organized into 10 undergraduate schools and 15 graduate/professional schools, with a roughly even split of students between the divisions. Arts and Science is currently NYU's largest academic division. It has three subdivisions: the College of Arts and Science, the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Liberal Studies program.
The College of Arts and Science and Liberal Studies program are undergraduate divisions, and the former has existed since the founding of NYU.
According to NYU, it has created a "global network university" with its primary campus, two "portal" campuses, and 12 academic sites. The portal campuses at
NYU Shanghai
New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) is China's first Sino-US research university and the third degree-granting campus of New York University (NYU). Jointly established by NYU and East China Normal University with the support of the city o ...
and NYU Abu Dhabi function as full-fledged colleges, allowing students to study all four years of their undergraduate studies and receive a degree, never having set foot on NYU's traditional campus in New York. The academic sites at Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C. function as study away sites, allowing students to spend up to a year away from their home campus. NYU, citing a report by the
Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education (IIE) is a 501(c) organization which focuses on international student exchange and aid, foreign affairs, and international peace and security. IIE creates programs of study and training for students, educa ...
, asserts that it has sent more students abroad and brought more international students in than any other university for five continuous years.
The President of New York University, is selected by the board of trustees and serves as the primary executive officer of the university for an unspecified term length. On March 18, 2015,
Andrew D. Hamilton
Andrew David Hamilton (born 3 November 1952) is a British American chemist and academic who is the 16th and current President of New York University. From 2009 to 2015, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Before leadi ...
became the 16th and current President of NYU.
Research
NYU is
classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and research expenditures totaled $917.7 million in 2017. The university was the founding institution of the American Chemical Society. The NYU Grossman School of Medicine received $305 million in external research funding from the
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
in 2014. NYU was granted 90
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...
s in 2014, the 19th most of any institution in the world. NYU owns the fastest
supercomputer in New York City. , NYU hardware researchers and their collaborators enjoy the largest outside funding level for hardware security of any institution in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
, including grants from the
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...
(NSF), the
Office of Naval Research, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the
United States Army Research Laboratory
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) is the U.S. Army's foundational research laboratory. ARL is headquartered at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC) in Adelphi, Maryland. Its largest sing ...
, the
Air Force Research Laboratory
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of aerospace warfighting technologies, pl ...
, the
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), commonly known as SRC, is a high-technology research consortium active in the semiconductor industry. It is a leading semiconductor research consortium. Todd Younkin is the incumbent president and chief ...
, and companies including
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...
,
Boeing
The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and p ...
,
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
, and
Google
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.
In 2019, four NYU Arts & Science departments ranked in Top 10 of Shanghai
Academic Rankings of World Universities by Academic Subjects (
Economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
,
Politics
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...
,
Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...
, and
Sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...
).
Rankings
Nationally, NYU is ranked 17th in the ''Center for World University Rankings'', 9th by ''
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
,'' 17th in the ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'', 27th by ''
Business Insider
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'', and 25th by ''
U.S. News & World Report''.
Globally, NYU is ranked 23 in the ''Center for World University Rankings'',
25th in the ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'', 26th in the ''
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' (often referred to as the THE Rankings) is an annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli ...
'', and 35th in the ''QS World University Rankings''. Additionally, NYU is ranked 26th in the ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' Reputation Rankings.
''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks NYU's graduate schools 6th for law, 10th for public policy, 9th for mathematics (1st for applied mathematics), 8th for
Occupational therapy under Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 10th for business, 11th for economics, 12th for political science, 4th for medical school research, 10th for education, 19th for nursing doctorate, 38th for physical therapy, 30th for computer science, 36th for psychology, and 38th for engineering.
Globally, NYU's social sciences are ranked 8th by the ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'', 15th by the ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', and 16th by the ''QS World University Rankings''. NYU is globally ranked 11th for psychology by the ''QS World University Ranking''. The
Social Psychology Network
The Social Psychology Network (SPN) is an educational organization with more than 1,500 members worldwide. SPN was founded by psychology professor Scott Plous as a website in 1996. Development of SPN was supported by several grants from the Nation ...
ranks NYU 5th for industrial/organizational psychology, 14th for clinical psychology, and ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks NYU 9th for social psychology and 9th for behavioral neuroscience.
''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks the New York University School of Law 1st for tax law, 1st for international law, 1st for business and corporate law (tie), and 1st in criminal law. The publication also ranks The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service 10th in public policy. The
NYU Department of Philosophy
The New York University Department of Philosophy is ranked 1st in the US and 1st in the English-speaking world as of the most recent edition of the ''Philosophical Gourmet Report'' from 2021 (as well as in the 2017, 2014, 2011, 2009, and 2006 edi ...
is globally ranked 1st by ''
The Philosophical Gourmet Report'' and the ''QS World University Rankings''. NYU is ranked 1st for New Ivies by college resource guide
Unigo. In 2006, NYU was named by
Kaplan as one of the "New Ivies". The annual Global Employability Survey in ''The New York Times'' ranks NYU 11th nationally and 29th globally for employability. NYU is consistently ranked as a "Top 10 Dream College" for both parents and students according to
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981. and since that time has worked with over 400 million students. Services are delivered by 4,0 ...
. Alongside
Stanford University,
Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...
,
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
, and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
, NYU is one of few universities to regularly appear in the top 10 list for both parents and students.
NYU ranks 19th in the world based on the number of patents generated.
Globally, NYU is ranked 7th by the ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' for producing alumni who are millionaires, 5th among universities with the highest number of alumni worth $30 million or more, and 4th by Wealth-X for producing ultra high net-worth and billionaire alumni.
Student life
Student government
The Student Government Assembly (SGA) is the
governing student body at NYU. The SGA has been involved in controversial debates on campus, including a campus-wide ban on the sale of
Coca-Cola products in 2005, and the
Graduate Student Organizing Committee
The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) is a labor union representing graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University (NYU).
GSOC is affiliated with the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, United Auto Workers Loc ...
unionization in 2001 and subsequent strike in 2005. This ban was lifted by the University Senate on February 5, 2009. SGA consists of 75 voting members from subsidiary student government organs including the
Student Senators Council (SSC) and the Presidents Council, which are elected from their respective individual undergraduate and graduate colleges.
In 2018, the structure of the university's student government was called into question by students through school newspapers and social media pages calling for "sweeping changes to its
byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
structure." Advocates claimed the structure of SGA failed to represent all students, wasted university funds and operated in an undemocratic manner. Opponents claimed that advocates were merely motivated by legislation supporting the
BDS movement that was likely to pass.
Student organizations
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NYU has over 450 student clubs and organizations on campus. In addition to the sports teams, fraternities, sororities, and study clubs, there are many organizations on campus that focus on entertainment, arts, and culture.
Journalism, media, and broadcast organizations
These organizations include various student media clubs: for instance, the daily
student newspaper the ''Washington Square News'', the ''
NYU Local
''NYU Local'' is an independent news blog run by New York University (NYU) students. It is the companion publication for NYU along with the ''Washington Square News'', and the undergraduate equivalent of '' Washington Square Review''.
Founded in ...
'' daily blog, ''
The Plague'' comedy magazine, "''Washington Square Local'' web-based satire news source, and the literary journals ''
Washington Square Review
''Washington Square Review'' (usually shortened to ''ON SQU'') is a nationally distributed literary magazine that publishes stories, poems, essays and reviews, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. It is the graduate equival ...
'' and ''The Minetta Review'', as well as student-run event producers such as the NYU Program Board and the Inter-Residence Hall Council. It also operates
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
WNYU-FM
WNYU-FM (89.1 FM) is a college radio station owned and operated by New York University. Its offices and studios are located at NYU's campus in lower Manhattan. WNYU's main transmitter is located at University Heights in the Bronx, the former loc ...
89.1 with a diverse
college radio format, transmitting to the entire
New York metropolitan area
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from the original campus, and via booster station WNYU-FM1 which fills in the signal in
lower Manhattan from atop one of the Silver Towers, next to the
football field at the Washington Square campus.
Students publish a campus comedy magazine, ''The Plague''. Like many
college humor magazines Many colleges and universities publish satirical journals, conventionally referred to as "humor magazines."
Among the most famous: The Harvard ''Lampoon'', which gave rise to the '' National Lampoon'' in 1970, The Yale Record, the nation's oldest ...
, this often pokes fun at
popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a ...
as well as campus life and the idiosyncrasies of New York University.
''The Plague'' was founded in 1978 by Howard Ostrowsky along with Amy Burns, John Rawlins, Joe Pinto and Dan Fiorella, and is currently published once per semester.
It is not NYU's first humor magazine, as ''The Medley'' was a humor magazine published by the
Eucleian Society
The Eucleian Society was a student literary society begun at New York University in 1832. According to New York University records, it ceased to exist around the 1940s.
The society was dedicated to furthering the literary arts. Members held hour ...
from 1913 to 1950.
Debate team
Since winning the national championship in the 2003–2004 season, the NYU
Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) debate team is considered one of the perennial collegiate
policy debate teams in the country. For the 2020–21 season, they placed 5th in the nation at CEDA Open Nationals and 2nd in the nation at JV Nationals, along with students named the 1st and 4th place speakers at Novice Nationals. In 2021, they ranked 10th in the nation, finishing ahead of Harvard and Cornell. This marked 14 years of Top 20 National finishes dating back to the 2007 season.
Mock trial team
The New York University Mock Trial team is consistently ranked as one of the best collegiate mock trial teams in the country. NYU has qualified for the National Championship Tournament for 10 consecutive seasons and placed in the top 10 during each of those years. In the 2009–2010 season, NYU won the 26th National Championship Tournament in Memphis over rival
Harvard. The following season, they qualified for the final round once more only to be the runners-up to
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...
. In the American Mock Trial Association's 2015–2016 power rankings, NYU ranks third, behind Harvard and
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
.
Campus traditions
NYU has traditions which have persisted across campuses. Since the beginning of the 20th century initiation ceremonies have welcomed incoming NYU freshmen. At the Bronx University Heights Campus, seniors used to grab unsuspecting freshmen, take them to a horse-watering trough, and then dunk them head-first into what was known colloquially as "the Fountain of Knowledge". This underground initiation took place until the 1970s. Today freshmen take part in university-sponsored activities during what is called "Welcome Week". In addition, throughout the year the university traditionally holds Apple Fest (an apple-themed country fest that began at the University Heights campus), the Violet Ball (a dance in the atrium of Bobst Library), Strawberry Fest (featuring New York City's longest
Strawberry Shortcake), and the semi-annual
midnight breakfast
Midnight breakfast is a generic term for a communal meal served at some American colleges and universities, often served during finals week. Menu items that are generally considered breakfast foods are served in the school's dining hall late at ...
where Student Affairs administrators serve free breakfast to students before
finals
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
.
A cappella groups
NYU is home to a number of student-run a cappella groups, several of which compete regularly at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). Most notable of these groups is The NYU N'Harmonics, who won the ICCA title in 2019. In 2020, The A Cappella Archive ranked The NYU N'Harmonics at #6 among all ICCA-competing groups.
Greek life
Some of the first
fraternities
A fraternity (from Latin ''frater'': "brother"; whence, " brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims. Fraternity ...
in the country were formed at NYU.
Greek life first formed on the NYU campus in 1837 when
Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon (), commonly known as Psi U, is a North American fraternity,''Psi Upsilon Tablet'' founded at Union College on November 24, 1833. The fraternity reports 50 chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America, some of which ...
chartered its Delta Chapter.
The first fraternities at NYU were social ones. With their athletic, professional, intellectual, and service activities, later groups sought to attract students who also formed other groups. Since then, Greek letter organizations have proliferated to include 25 social fraternities and sororities. , approximately 13% of NYU undergraduate students are members of fraternities or sororities.
Four governing boards oversee Greek life at the university. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) has jurisdiction over all twelve recognized fraternities on campus. Eight sororities are under the jurisdiction of the Panhellenic Council (PhC), which features seven national sororities (ΔΦΕ, ΑΕΦ, ΑΣΤ, ΠΒΦ, ΚΚΓ, ΖΤΑ, ΔΓ) and two local sororities (ΑΦΖ and ΘΦΒ). Five multicultural organizations maintain membership in the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), including two fraternities and three sororities. All three of the aforementioned boards are managed under the auspices of the Inter-Greek Council.
Greek organizations have historical significance at NYU.
Delta Phi Epsilon Delta Phi Epsilon () may refer to:
*Delta Phi Epsilon (professional), the professional foreign service fraternity and sorority
*Delta Phi Epsilon (social)
Delta Phi Epsilon ( or DPhiE) is an international Fraternities and sororities in North Ame ...
,
Zeta Psi
Zeta Psi () is a collegiate fraternity. It was founded in June 1, 1847 at New York University. The organization now comprises fifty-three active chapters and thirty-four inactive chapters, encompassing roughly fifty thousand members, and is a ...
,
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Epsilon Pi (), commonly known as AEPi, is a college fraternity founded at New York University in 1913 by Charles C. Moskowitz and ten other men. The fraternity has more than 150 active chapters across the United States, Canada, United K ...
,
Tau Delta Phi
Tau Delta Phi (), whose members are commonly known as Tau Delts, is a national social fraternity founded on , in New York City. Since its inception, dozens of chapters have been founded and thousands of men initiated into its membership. Today, T ...
,
Alpha Kappa Psi and
Delta Sigma Pi
Delta Sigma Pi () (officially the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi, Inc.) is a coeducational professional business fraternity and one of the largest in the United States. Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907, at the Schoo ...
were founded at NYU. Zeta Psi was chartered in 1847,
Delta Sigma Pi in 1907,
[ and] Alpha Epsilon Pi in 1913 Delta Phi Epsilon was founded in 1917. The NYU Gamma chapter of
Delta Phi
Delta Phi () is a fraternity founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York consisting of ten active chapters along the East Coast of the United States. The fraternity also uses the names "St. Elmo," "St. Elmo Hall," or merely "Elmo" ...
, founded in 1841, is the longest continuously active fraternity chapter in the world, having never gone inactive since its establishment. Delta Phi is also the oldest continuously active fraternity in the United States, being the only organization in the original Union Triad to remain active since its institute. The NYU Gamma chapter of
Zeta Beta Tau
Zeta Beta Tau () is a Greek-letter social fraternity based in North America. It was founded on December 29, 1898. Originally a Zionist youth society, its purpose changed from Zionism in the fraternity's early years when in 1954 the fraternity be ...
is the oldest active ΖΒΤ chapter in the country.
Secret societies
During the University Heights era, an apparent rift evolved with some organizations distancing themselves from students from the downtown schools. The exclusive
Philomathean Society
The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is a collegiate literary society, the oldest student group at the university, and a claimant to the title of the oldest continuously-existing literary society in the United States.This cl ...
operated from 1832 to 1888 (formally giving way in 1907 and reconstituted into the
Andiron Club
An andiron or firedog, fire-dog or fire dog is a bracket support, normally found in pairs, on which logs are laid for burning in an open fireplace, so that air may circulate under the firewood, allowing better burning and less smoke. They gene ...
). Included among the Andiron's regulations was "Rule No.11: Have no relations save the most casual and informal kind with the downtown schools."
The Eucleian Society, rival to the Philomathean Society, was founded in 1832. The
Knights of the Lamp
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...
was a social organization founded in 1914 at the School of Commerce. This organization met every full moon and had a glowworm as its mascot. The
Red Dragon Society, founded in 1898, is thought to be the most selective society at NYU.
In addition, NYU's first
yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually. One use is to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. The term also refers to a book of statistics or facts published annually. A yearbook often ...
was formed by fraternities and "secret societies" at the university. There have been several attempts to restart old societies by both former and incoming undergraduate classes.
ROTC
NYU does not have an ROTC program on campus. However, NYU students may participate in the
U.S. Army ROTC
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC ( or )) is a group of college- and university-based officer-training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.
Overview
While ROTC graduate officers serve in all ...
program through NYC Army ROTC (Yankee Battalion), headquartered at
Fordham University. Students may also participate in the U.S. Air Force ROTC program through AFROTC Detachment 560 headquartered at Manhattan College.
Athletics
NYU's sports teams are referred to as the
NYU Violets
NYU Violets is the nickname of the sports teams and other competitive teams at New York University. The school colors are purple and white. Although officially known as the Violets, the school mascot is a bobcat. The Violets compete as a member o ...
, the colors being the trademarked hue "NYU Violet" and white. Since 1981, the school
mascot
A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fi ...
has been a bobcat, whose origin can be traced back to the abbreviation then being used by the Bobst Library computerized catalog—short: Bobcat. NYU's sports teams include baseball, men's and women's varsity basketball, cross country, fencing, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. Most of NYU's sports teams participate in the
NCAA's Division III
In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below.
Association football
*Belgian Thir ...
and the
University Athletic Association
The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an American athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division III. Member schools are highly selective universities located in Georgia, Illinois, M ...
, while fencing and ice hockey participate in
Division I. While NYU has had
All-American football players, the school has not had a varsity
football team since 1952.
NYU students also compete in club and intramural sports, including
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...
,
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
,
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
,
crew
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved ...
,
cycling
Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ...
,
equestrianism,
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
,
lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...
,
martial arts,
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
,
softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
,
squash
Squash may refer to:
Sports
* Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets
* Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
* Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ...
,
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
,
triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the ...
, and
ultimate
Ultimate or Ultimates may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums
* ''Ultimate'' (Jolin Tsai album)
* ''Ultimate'' (Pet Shop Boys album)
*''Ultimate!'', an album by The Yardbirds
*''The Ultimate (Bryan Adams Album)'', a compilatio ...
. Th
Palladium Athletic Facilityserves as the home base of NYU's Varsity and Club intercollegiate athletic teams, while NYU's 404 and Brooklyn athletic facilities offer additional space for the NYU fitness community. Many of NYU's varsity teams play their games at various facilities and fields throughout Manhattan because of the scarcity of space for playing fields near campus. NYU is currently in the process of building a new billion dollar flagship athletic facility known a
When complete, the new home of NYU Athletics will host a six-lane swimming pool, four full basketball courts, a complete in-door running track and other sports related offerings.
Notable faculty
Notable alumni
As of 2020, multiple
heads of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and ...
, royalty, one
U.S. Supreme Court justice, five
U.S. governors, 17
billionaires
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busi ...
, 38 Nobel Laureates, 8 Turing Award winners, 5 Fields Medalists, 31
MacArthur Fellows, 167
Guggenheim Fellows
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, three
astronauts, seven
Abel Prize winners, seven
Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, which was ...
winners, a
Crafoord Prize
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord. The Prize is awarded in partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Crafoord Foun ...
winner, 26
Pulitzer Prize winners, 37
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
winners, 30
Emmy Award winners, 25
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...
winners, 12
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...
winners, multiple
''Forbes'' 30 under 30 and
''Time'' 100 notables, and numerous members of the
National Academies of Sciences
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
,
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
, and
U.S. diplomats have been affiliated with
faculty or
alumni
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...
.
Multiple
Rhodes Scholars,
Marshall Scholars
The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans ndtheir country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom. It is widely considered one of the most prestigious sc ...
,
Schwarzman Scholars
Schwarzman Scholars (), founded by American financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, is an international postgraduate award program for students to study at Tsinghua University. Awards are made to 100–200 applicants per year, worldwide. The program s ...
and a
Mitchell Scholar are affiliated with the university, with NYU Abu Dhabi producing more Rhodes Scholars per student than any university in the world.
File:Jack Dorsey 2014.jpg, Jack Dorsey
Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur and programmer who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc., as well as a co-founder and the CEO and chairperson of Block, Inc., the developer of the Squa ...
, American billionaire and internet entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Twitter
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and Square, Inc.; CAS (dropped out)
File:Director Robert S. Mueller- III.jpg, Robert Muller III, American public official; lead director of the Special Counsel investigation
In the United States, a special counsel (formerly called special prosecutor or independent counsel) is a lawyer appointed to Criminal investigation, investigate, and potentially prosecution, prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing fo ...
, author of the Mueller Report, former Director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...
; GSAS '67
File:Alan Greenspan color photo portrait.jpg, Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. ...
, American economist and public official; former long-time Chairman of the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...
; Stern '48, '50, '77
File:CarolBellamy.jpg, Carol Bellamy
Carol Bellamy (born January 14, 1942) is an American nonprofit executive and former politician. She is chair of the board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). Previously, she was director of the Peace Corps, executiv ...
, American politician; former executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund
UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ...
(UNICEF); Law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...
'68
File:中華民國第12、13任總統馬英九先生官方肖像照.jpg, Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, 馬英九, born 13 July 1950) is a Hong Kong-born Taiwanese politician who served as president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he served as justice minister from 1993 to 1996 and mayor of Taipei fro ...
, Taiwanese politician; Former President of the Republic of China; Law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...
'76
File:Jonas Salk candid.jpg, Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New ...
, American biologist; creator of the polio vaccine
Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends all chi ...
; founder of the Salk Institute
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute located in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California, U.S. The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vacci ...
; Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...
'39
File:Martin Scorsese (8250485096).jpg, Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of many major accolades, inclu ...
, American filmmaker, director and actor; AFI Life Achievement Award
The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the board of directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973, to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion picture ...
winner, 20-time Academy Award
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winner, 23-time BAFTA winner, 11-time Golden Globes
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winner; CAS '64, Steinhardt '68
File:Spike Lee (8162083699).jpg, Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut ...
, American filmmaker, director and producer; two-time Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
winner; two-time Emmy Award winner; Tisch '83
File:Ang Lee - 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra).jpg, Ang Lee
Ang Lee (; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Born in Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career, he has received international critical and popula ...
OBS, Taiwanese film director; three-time Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
winner; two-time Golden Lion winner; Tisch '83
File:Alan Menken 2013 (cropped).jpg, Alan Menken, American composer, songwriter, and record producer; one of only sixteen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony; Steinhart '71
File:Suzanne Collins David Shankbone 2010 (cropped).jpg, Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer. She is known as the author of the book series '' The Underland Chronicles'' and ''The Hunger Games''.
Early life
Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962, i ...
, American television writer and author; Author of ''The New York Times'' best-selling series ''The Underland Chronicles
''The Underland Chronicles'' is a series of five epic fantasy novels by Suzanne Collins, first published between 2003 and 2007. It tells the story of a boy named Gregor and his adventures in the "Underland,” a subterranean world located under ...
'' and ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy; Tisch '89
File:Alec Baldwin by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Alec Baldwin, American actor, writer, comedian and philanthropist; three-time Emmy Award winner; three-time Golden Globe winner; Tisch '94
File:Lady Gaga A Star is Born premire.png, Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ( ; born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her image reinventions and musical versatility. Gaga began performing as a teenag ...
, American singer, songwriter, and actress; nine-time Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...
winner; thirteen-time MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honour the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video categor ...
winner; Tisch (dropped out)
File:Angelina Jolie by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (; born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian and former Special Envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award ...
, American actress and humanitarian; three-time Golden Globe Award winner; Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...
; Tisch (non-degree seeking)
File:Mahershala Ali (29953410761).jpg, Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali (; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore, February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named him one of th ...
, American actor; two-time Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
winner; Golden Globe Award winner; three-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner; Tisch '00
File:Woody-Allen-2015-07-18-by-Adam-Bielawski.jpg, Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing ...
, American director, actor and comedian; four-time Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
winner; nine-time BAFTA Award
The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cer ...
winner; Tisch (dropped out)
File:Adam Sandler 2011 (Cropped).jpg, Adam Sandler, American actor, director and comedian; five-time MTV Movie & TV Award
The MTV Movie & TV Awards (formerly the MTV Movie Awards) is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV. The first MTV Movie Awards were presented in 1992. The ceremony was renamed the MTV Movie & TV Awards for its 26th editi ...
winner; eight-time People's Choice Award
The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans. The show has been held annually since 1975, with the winners originally determined using Gallup Polls until ...
winner; Tisch '88
File:Donald Glover TIFF 2015.jpg, Donald Glover, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and singer; two-time Golden Globe Award winner; five-time Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...
winner; Tisch '06
File:Anne Hathaway at MIFF (cropped).jpg, Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, she was among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2 ...
, American actress; Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
and Golden Globe Award winner; Gallatin (dropped out)
File:Tom Ford cropped 2009.jpg, Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2005, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and direct ...
, American fashion designer and filmmaker; former creative director at Gucci
Gucci (, ; ) is an Italian high-end luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy. Its product lines include handbags, ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories, and home decoration; and it licenses its name and branding to Coty, Inc. for fragran ...
and Yves Saint Laurent; CAS (dropped out)
NYU has more than 500,000 living alumni . As of October 2020, 38 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with NYU. The university is also associated with a great number of important inventions and discoveries, such as
cardiac defibrillator
Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (V-Fib) and ventricular tachycardia, non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach). A defibrillator delivers a dose of electric curren ...
and
artificial cardiac pacemaker
An artificial cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural cardiac pacemaker) or pacemaker is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to the chambers of the heart ei ...
(
Barouh Berkovits), closed-chest cardiac defibrillator (
William B. Kouwenhoven),
laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The fi ...
(
Gordon Gould
Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005) was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier. (Credit for the invention of the laser is disputed, since Charles Townes and ...
),
atom bomb
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...
(
Frederick Reines
Frederick Reines ( ; March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist i ...
),
polio vaccine
Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends all chi ...
(
Albert Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin ( ; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72, he served as th ...
),
RFID (
Mario Cardullo
Mario Cardullo is an American inventor who received the first patent for a passive, read-write Radio-frequency identification. He is a 1957 graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now known as the New York University Tandon School of En ...
),
telephone handset
A handset is a component of a telephone that a user holds to the ear and mouth to receive audio through the receiver and speak to the remote party using the built-in transmitter. In earlier telephones, the transmitter was mounted directly on ...
(
Robert G. Brown),
wireless microphone
A wireless microphone, or cordless microphone, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. Also known as a radio microphone, it has a small, battery- ...
(
Hung-Chang Lin), first digital
image scanner
An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop ''flatbed scanner'' ...
(
Russell A. Kirsch
Russell A. Kirsch (June 20, 1929August 11, 2020) was an American engineer at the National Bureau of Standards (now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology). He was recognized as the developer of the first digital image scanne ...
),
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
(
Benjamin Adler
Benjamin Adler (10 November 1903 – 16 April 1990) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who helped develop the first commercial television set. He was born in New York City to Romanian Jewish immigrants. He graduated from the-now New ...
),
light beer
Light beer is a beer, usually a pale lager, that is reduced in alcohol content or in calories compared to regular beers. The first use of the term in marketing was in the 1940s when the Coors Brewing Company sold Coors Light, for a short period ...
(
Joseph Owades
Joseph Lawrence Owades (July 9, 1919 – December 16, 2005) was an American biochemist and brewer of light and industrially produced beer. He adjusted analytical techniques and quality control, was involved in the development of the first modern l ...
),
non-stick cookware (
John Gilbert),
black hole thermodynamics
In physics, black hole thermodynamics is the area of study that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the existence of black hole event horizons. As the study of the statistical mechanics of black-body radiation led to the developm ...
(
Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob David Bekenstein ( he, יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was an American and Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of ...
),
polymer science
Polymer science or macromolecular science is a subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. The field of polymer science includes researchers in multiple disciplines includ ...
(
Herman Francis Mark),
microwave
Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively. Different sources define different frequency ra ...
(
Ernst Weber),
X-ray crystallography
X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...
(
Paul Peter Ewald
Paul Peter Ewald, FRS (January 23, 1888 in Berlin, Germany – August 22, 1985 in Ithaca, New York) was a German crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods.
Education
Ewald received his early education in the clas ...
),
barcode
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(
Jerome Swartz), structure of the
DNA (
Francis Crick),
tau lepton
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(
Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
Life and career
Perl was born in New York City, New York. Hi ...
), processes for creating
food coloring
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,
decaffeination
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and
sugar substitute (
Torunn Atteraas Garin
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), processes for the mass production of
penicillin (
Jasper H. Kane
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),
X-ray generator
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and rotational
radiation therapy
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(
John G. Trump
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),
nuclear reactor
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and
hydrogen bomb (
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in ...
), and
contact lenses
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(
Norman Gaylord), among many others. Alumnus
Fred Waller
Frederic Waller (1886 – May 18, 1954) was an American inventor and film pioneer.
Career
Waller is most known for his contributions to film special effects while working at Paramount Pictures, for his creation of the Waller Flexible Gunnery Tr ...
who invented
Cinerama
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and the
Waller Gunnery Trainer, also obtained the first patent for a
water ski
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. The first patents for touch screen
cash machine
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(Richard J. Orford), and
zoom lens (Leonard Bergstein), were also obtained by NYU alumni.
Some of the most prolific inventors in American history are NYU alumni, for example
Jerome H. Lemelson
Jerome "Jerry" Hal Lemelson (July 18, 1923 – October 1, 1997) was an American engineer, inventor, and patent holder. Several of his inventions and works in the fields in which he patented have made possible, either wholly or in part, innovatio ...
whose 605 patents involved the
cordless telephone
A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same building or within some short ...
,
fax machine
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,
videocassette recorder
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the reco ...
and
camcorder
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, among others;
Samuel Ruben
Samuel Ruben (14 July 1900 – 16 July 1988) was an American inventor who made lasting contributions to electrochemistry and solid-state technology, including the founding of Duracell. He is listed as an inventor in ove200 patents. Early life
Born ...
whose inventions include
electric battery;
James Wood who invented cable-lift
elevator
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, fabricated the steel cables for the
Brooklyn Bridge and contributed to the development of
lockmaking,
submarine,
electric generator,
electric motor
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,
transformer
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and the design of the
refrigerator; and
Albert Macovski whose innovations include the single-tube color camera and real-time
phased array imaging for
ultrasound
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. NYU is the birthplace of the
tractor beam
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and
5G. Before and during
World War II
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, NYU's Tandon School of Engineering worked on problems whose solution led to the development of
radar
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, and later broke ground in electromagnetic theory, electronics in general, and solved re-entry problems of the crewed
space capsule
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s, as well as helped develop and design the
NASDAQ Automated Quote System and trading floors. Developer of the early telephone systems in the United States
Bancroft Gherardi Jr.
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, developer of the submarine communications facilities
Jack M. Sipress Jack M. Sipress (born April 9, 1935) is an American electrical engineer, former employee of Bell Labs, known for his contributions to the development of submarine communications facilities.
Biography
Sipress studied Electrical Engineering at t ...
, inventor of
Italy
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's first computer
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, designer of the
Panama Canal locks
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Henry C. Goldmark
Henry C. Goldmark (1857–1941) was an American engineer who designed and installed the Panama Canal locks.
Biography
Henry Goldmark was born in New York City on June 15, 1857. He was an 1874 graduate of the New York University Polytechnic School ...
, designer of
the Pentagon
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Hugh John Casey
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, designer of the
Apollo Lunar Module Thomas J. Kelly, as well as the designer of virtually every major bridge in New York City from the George Washington to the Verrazano,
Leopold Just Leopold Just (February 26, 1903 – February 25, 1999) was a Latvian-born engineer who came to New York City in 1921, and eventually became a partner in the Ammann & Whitney firm of consulting engineers. He was involved in the design of many major ...
, are also NYU alumni.
Many of the world's most renowned companies, such as
IBM (
Charles Ranlett Flint
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), Twitter (Jack Dorsey),
Bloomberg L.P.
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(
Charles Zegar
Charlie Zegar (born 1948) is an American businessman and computer programmer known for being one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P.
Early life and education
Zegar was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Lillian, a musical c ...
),
Jacobs Engineering Group
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(
Joseph J. Jacobs
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),
Hudson Group
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(
Robert B. Cohen
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),
MTV (
Tom Freston
Thomas E. Freston (born November 22, 1945) is an American media proprietor, businessman, and financier.
Early life and education
Freston grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Michael's College and an MBA from ...
),
Barnes & Noble (
Leonard Riggio),
Northrop Grumman
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(
William T. Schwendler),
Automatic Data Processing
ADP, Inc. (originally an acronym for Automatic Data Processing) is an American provider of human resources management software and services.
History
In 1949, Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processing business wit ...
(
Henry Taub),
Duracell (Samuel Ruben),
Bugle Boy
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William C. W. Mow (Traditio ...
(
William C. W. Mow),
Virgin Mobile USA
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(
Dan Schulman
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), among many others, were founded or co-founded by NYU alumni. Many of the world's most famous companies were either owned or led by NYU alumni. These include,
Lockheed Martin (
Robert J. Stevens),
Xerox
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(
Ursula Burns
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),
Yahoo!
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(
Alfred Amoroso
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),
TPV Technology
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(
Jason Hsuan
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),
20th Century Fox
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(
Marvin Davis
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),
BAE Systems Inc (
Mark Ronald),
AECOM
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The company's official name from 1990 t ...
(
John Dionisio
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),
Pfizer
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(
John Elmer McKeen
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),
Ingersoll Rand
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(
Herbert L. Henkel),
General Motors (
Alfred P. Sloan), and
Sears
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(
Arthur C. Martinez
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).
Others include ''The New York Times'' (
Spencer Trask
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),
Stanley Black & Decker (
John Trani John M. Trani was chairman and chief executive officer of Stanley Black & Decker from 1997 until his retirement in 2003. He was also the president and CEO of General Electric Medical Systems from 1986 to 1996. He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic ...
),
American International Group
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(
Harvey Golub
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Biography
Born to a Jewish family, Golub attended Cornell University and received a Bachelor of Science from the New York University.
He worked as a senior partner with McKinsey ...
),
American Express (
Edward P. Gilligan Edward P. Gilligan (July 13, 1959 – May 29, 2015) was the former Vice Chairman and President of American Express. He graduated from NYU
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),
Qwest
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(
Joseph Nacchio
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),
Chase Bank
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(
Walter V. Shipley),
CBS
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(
Laurence Alan Tisch
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),
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
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),
Citigroup (
Robert I. Lipp),
Morgan Stanley
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(
Robert A. Kindler),
Marvel Entertainment (
John Turitzin),
ConocoPhillips (
John Carrig
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),
Deloitte
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(
Barry Salzberg
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),
Sony Pictures Entertainment (
Peter Guber
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),
GQ (
Steven Florio),
Viacom Viacom, an abbreviation of Video and Audio Communications, may refer to:
* Viacom (1952–2006), a former American media conglomerate
* Viacom (2005–2019), a former company spun off from the original Viacom
* Viacom18, a joint venture between Par ...
(
Thomas E. Dooley
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),
Liberty Media (
John C. Malone
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),
Verizon
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(
Lawrence Babbio Jr.) and
Chemtura
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(
Vincent A. Calarco). A pioneer of
Silicon Valley
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,
Eugene Kleiner
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, and the World Trade Center site owner, Larry Silverstein, are also alumni.
See also
* Silicon Alley
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