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NEW YORK UNIVESRITY


GENERAL INFORMATION

  • Motto- Perstare et praestare (Latin)
  • Motto in English- To persevere and to excel
  • Year Established- 1831
  • Type- Private,coed college
  • Academic calendar- Semester
  • Setting- Urban 
  • Endowment- US $3.5 billion (2014)
  • Chairman- Martin Lipton
  • President- John Sexton
New York University (NYU's)  is a private American Research University that was founded in 1831. NYS's main campus is located in Greenwich village in lower Manhattan. NYU is one of the largest private non-profit institutions of American Higher Education. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 22,615 and its setting is urban. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. New York University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 32. It's tuition and fees are $46,170 (2014-2015). 

New York University (NYU's) is organised into more then 20 schools, colleges, and institutions located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. According to the institute of International Education, NYU sends more students to study abroad then any other US college or university. The Board reports moew online searches by international students for "NYU" then any other university.


SCHOOL AND COLLEGES
New York University comprises the following school and colleges:
  1. Arts & Science
  2. The Center for Urban Science and Progress
  3. College of Dentistry
  4. College of Nursing
  5. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  6. Gallatin School of Individual Study
  7. Global Institute of Public Health
  8. Institute of Fine Arts
  9. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  10. Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  11. NYU Abu Dhabi
  12. NYU Shanghai
  13. Polytechnic School of Engineering
  14. Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
  15. NYU School of Professional Studies
  16. NYU School of Law
  17. School of Medicine
  18. Silver School of Social Work
  19. Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
  20. Tisch School of the Arts
NYU's arts and science is currently a 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.


ALUMNI
Notable alumni include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Greenspan, Adam Sandler and the founders of both Foursquare and Def Jam Records. 

STUDENT SERVICES
NYU offers various number of student services including health service, health insurance, women's  center placement service, and nonremedical tutoring. NYU also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, student patrols, lighted pathways, and controlled dormitory access (security card, key, etc.)

APPLYING TO NYU
Before or when applying to New York University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early deadline is November 1. The format of score is based on either the ACT or SAT. The application fee at New York University is $70. It's more selective, with an acceptance rate of 32.4%.

COSTS
Tuition and Fees:    $46,170(2014-2015)
Room and boards:  $16,782(2014-2015)

PRIZES AND AWARDS
NYU has won many prizes and awards in wide range of fields. NYU counts 36 Nobel Prize winners, three Abel Prize winners,10 National Medal of Science recipients, 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, four Putnam Competition winners, Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, and Draper Prize winners, Turing Award winners, and Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. NYU also has MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering members among its past and present graduates and faculty.

UNIQUE QUALITIES OF NYU
New York University (NYU)  is a private, American University based in New York City. NYU's primary campus is located in the lively Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1950. NYU established the first global network university with a comprehensive liberal arts campus in Abu Dhabi, and also has research facilities programs in Ghana, Argentine, Italy, Czech Republic, China, and Israel among others. NYU offers more then 150 undergraduate majors, including individualized studies. NYU'S serves opportunities for double majors, minors, dual degrees and internship.

NYU is a true city school, with no boarders separating a distinct campus from the street of the Big Apple. NYU has a small but active Greek life with more then 25 fraternity and sorority chapters. There are hundreds of students organizations on campus, such as NYU-TV, which operates both the university channel and the movie channel to provide entertainment and information to the university community. The university traditionally hosts Strawberry Fost, a street fair featuring New York city's longest Strawberry Shortcake, and commencement is held at Yankee Stadium.

*for more info visit: www.nyu.edu/
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