The

City Value
“Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seat together,
and know of no distinction, save that of industry, good conduct and intellect.”

City College Founder Townsend Harris, 1847

The City College of New York
Founded in 1847, The City College of New York is the first urban public higher
education institution in the United States and has one of the most diverse
student bodies in the nation. Established as a free institution dedicated to
overcoming barriers to advancement, City College continues its mission of
access to excellence, and remains dedicated to keeping its tuition affordable.

As the precursor to CUNY, City College is part of one of the largest public
urban university systems in the country. City College students receive a world-
class education and study with celebrated faculty in nationally recognized
programs. City College offers a comprehensive selection of majors and minors,
from biomedical engineering to economics and business, theatre, history,
education, art, computer science, and journalism.

The new CUNY School of Medicine was launched on the City College campus
in September, 2016. The college also opened the City College Center for
Discovery and Innovation in 2015. The state-of-the-art facility (pictured left) is
a magnet for international researchers and learning for students, faculty, and
scientists working across multiple disciplines.

For more than 160 years, City College has stood for the idea that a democratic
society needs the talents of all its people.
Areas
of Study
Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture CUNY School of Medicine
Architecture The Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program ***
Physician Assistant (MS Program)
Colin Powell School for Civic and
Global Leadership Division of Humanities and the Arts
Advertising and Public Relations
Anthropology Art
Economics and Business* • Art Education
International Studies • Art History
Latin American and Latino Studies • Electronic Design and Multimedia
Management and Administration • Studio Art
Political Science Asian Studies
Psychology* Black Studies
Comparative Literature
Public Policy and Public Affairs (Minor)
English
Sociology Film and Video Production
Women’s Studies (Minor) History*
Jewish Studies
School of Education Journalism (Minor)
Bilingual Childhood Education Music
Childhood Education • Performance
Early Childhood Education** • Popular Music Studies
Secondary Education • Sonic Arts Technology
• Art (K-12) Philosophy
• Biology Publishing (Certificate Program)
Romance Languages
• Chemistry
• French, Italian, Spanish
• Earth Science Theatre
• English
• Mathematics Division of Interdisciplinary Studies
• Music (K-12) at the Center for Worker Education
• Physics Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences**
• Social Studies Study of the Americas** (combined BA/MA only)
• Spanish
Division of Science
Grove School of Engineering Biology+
Biomedical Engineering Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering Chemistry+
Mathematics
Civil Engineering Physics
Computer Engineering Pre-Medical Studies Program
Computer Science
+ Combined BS/MS available
Electrical Engineering * Combined BA/MA available
Environmental Earth System Science ** Offered at City College’s Division of Interdisciplinary
Environmental Engineering Studies at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway 3
Mechanical Engineering *** Combined 7-year BS/MD
 National Rankings

U.S. News & World Report The Princeton Review

One of the nation’s Most Ethnically Among the nation’s Best Colleges
Diverse institutions (2016, 2017) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Among Top Three in Alumni Giving One of the best “colleges that pay you back”
in the North (2016) Among the country’s greenest colleges (2016)

Center for World University Rankings CollegeNet

One of the world’s best institutions of higher #5 in Social Mobility Index (2015)
education (2015, 2016)

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Military Friendly Forbes
#1 among Public Universities with more than One of America’s Top Colleges
10,000 enrolled students nationwide (2017) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Designated Military Friendly College (2016)

Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education

One of the top ten architecture schools
American Institute of Physics
granting bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics
Top producer of physics
Top 100 for bachelor’s degrees granted to graduates in the nation (2015)
Hispanics and for Hispanic graduate student
enrollment

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Student Spotlights
City College students are frequent recipients of national and international awards, including
Rhodes, Truman, Fulbright, Goldwater, Gilman, Math for America Fellowships, Javits Fellowships,
and National Science Foundation Research Fellowships. The following spotlights are examples of
recent awards and recognition:

Iliana Ortega, an Ad/PR major, is one of the top 50 undergraduate

seniors nationwide in the American Advertising Federation’s Most
Promising Multicultural Students Class of 2017.

M.F.A. in film graduate, Yvonne Ng, is the recipient of a 2016

Student Academy Award for her short film, “Cloud Kumo.” She
won the silver medal in the Alternative Category, and she is eligible
to compete for the 2016 Oscars®.

Troy Blackwell, Jr., a senior majoring in public relations, is the

recipient of a $5,000 Art Stevens/PRSA-NY award presented by the
Public Relations Society of America, New York Chapter. He is also a
2015 Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar.
Class of 2016 Salutatorian Orubba Almansouri was a speaker at
the White House for the United State of Women Summit, where
she addressed the panel, ‘Let Girls Learn.’ She graduated from
CCNY with double BA degrees in English and history and is now an
advocate for other young women in her culture to stand up for their
rights to an education.

Jasmin Klinger, an BFA music major from Israel, scored Domenica

Cameron-Scorsese’s debut feature, “Almost Paris,” which premiered
at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. She composed, recorded and
mixed the score at City College’s Sonic Arts Center (SAC).

Physics major Kurt Dawiec is a University Innovation Fellow,

a global program run by Stanford University to create new
opportunities to engage with innovation, entrepreneurship, design
thinking and creativity. He is among 169 University Innovation
Fellows selected internationally by Stanford’s Hasso Plattner
Institute of Design for 2016.

Senior Kaisa Ajaye, an English major, is the recipient of a $10,000

fellowship from the Women’s Forum Education Fund, which
recognizes extraordinary and often heroic efforts in overcoming
adversity in restructuring lives for success.

Lewis Tse, an engineering major, was awarded the prestigious

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for fall 2016.
Tse is spending the semester in Singapore’s Nanyang Technical
University, which was ranked as one of the U.S. News & World
Report’s “Best Global Universities 2016.”
 Faculty Spotlights:
Research and Scholarship
City College faculty members are frequent recipients of national and international awards, including
Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation fellowships
and grants, and book writing awards. The following spotlights are examples of recent accolades:

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

Architectural historian Marta Gutman won the prestigious Kenneth Jackson
Award for the best North American book. This new work of urban history,
“A City for Children,” focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday
buildings in Oakland, California.

Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership

Economist Matthew G. Nagler is an academic affiliate of the White House
Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST), which applies findings from
the social and behavioral sciences to improve federal policies and programs.
He designs exploratory interventions relating to healthcare, secondary
education programs for homeless students and transportation safety.
School of Education
Professor Beverly Falk, director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood
Education, is the recipient of a $475,000 grant from the Foundation for
Child Development to direct “Walking Alongside the Learner: Curriculum in
Yvonne’s Pre-K Classroom,” a short documentary about what high quality
early learning looks like in early childhood education.

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Grove School of Engineering
Gilda A. Barabino, dean and Berg Professor, is the winner of AIChE’s 2016
William W. Grimes Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering. The
honor is in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a distinguished
role model for underrepresented minorities in chemical engineering.

CUNY School of Medicine

Medical Professor John Martin’s $4.27 million grant from the New York
State Department of Health is aimed at boosting research for people with
cervical spinal cord injuries where regaining hand function is the highest
priority.

Division of Humanities and the Arts

Lynn Appelbaum, professor and director of the Advertising/PR Program, is
the winner of The Hispanic Public Relations Association’s inaugural BRAVO!
PR Educator of the Year Award. The HPRA National Bravo! awards are the
most prestigious awards in Hispanic communications.

Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for worker Education

Associate Professor Carlos Aguasaco organized The Americas Poetry Festival
at CWE and The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY) for 2016.
He has published a book of original poetry and one about a famous Mexico
superhero, El Chapulin Colorado. He is founder of Artepoetica Press, which
has published 38 titles.

Division of Science
Chemistry Professor Mahesh Lakshman is a new Fellow of the Royal Society
of Chemistry, the world’s leading community of scientists in that field. His
induction is part of the society’s long legacy of advancing excellence in the
chemical sciences.

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Enrollment

2015 HEADCOUNT 2016 HEADCOUNT

15,778 15,931

Undergraduate Undergraduate
13,201 13,317

Graduate Graduate
2,577 2,614

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 Faculty Research Awards

Total Awards

FY15
FY14 $57,188,487 FY16
$52,714,146 $54,621,663

ACTIVE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

FY14 FY15 FY16

168 171 215

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Student Race/Ethnicity
Fall 2015

9%
Others*
22%
Asian
18%
White

17%
Black
34%
Hispanic

*OTHERS INCLUDE
0.2% 0.3% 6.9% 1.6%
American Indian/ Nonresident Native Hawaiian Two or More
Alaskan Native or Other Races
 Student Support Services
• Athletics, Recreation and Campus Fitness
• Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation
• Career and Professional Development Institute
• Counseling Center
• Emergency Loans and Grants
• Office of Student Life and Leadership Development
• Office of Veterans Affairs
• Student Health Services
• The AccessAbility Center (Disability Services)
• Tech Center (offers 300+ workstations through Office of Information Technology)

Educational Opportunity Programs and Engagement

Initiatives
• CCNY Honors Program
• City College Academy for Professional Preparation Collegiate Science and
Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) at City College
• College Now at City College
• Counseling Center
• Macaulay Honors College at City College
• New Student Experience Center
• SEEK
• TRIO Student Support Services Program

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High School Background

6.1%
8.3% NYC Private
NYC Private 3.1% 3.7% Parochial
Parochial Others Others High School
High School

15.8%
NYS 13.8%
High School NYS
(outside NYC) High School
(outside NYC)

72.8% 76.3%
NYC Public NYC Public
High School High School

Fall 2014 Fall 2015

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City College
Tuition
 Average Cost of Tuition and Fees in U.S. (2016-2017)

$15,610 $32,405

$6,600 $9,410

The City College Public 4-year For-profit Private nonprofit 4-year

of New York in-state institutions institutions colleges and universities

= $3,000

Students Attending Tuition-free/Debt-free (2015)

63% 71%
Attending More than

Tuition-free Graduating Debt-free

Source: CUNY Office of Student Financial Aid. Students attending tuition-free counts those who pay no out-of-pocket costs for tuition
because it is covered by Pell and TAP grants. 17
Student
Scholarships
 Scholarships Disbursed

More than

$6 Million
awarded to City College students annually

Approximately

2,300
City College students or roughly 14%
of the student body receive scholarships

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Number of Students
in Public Service Programs
and Internships

Approximately More than

800 1,000
students are in the Career and CCNY students are involved in
Professional Development Institute public service programs on campus.
Internship Program at City College.
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