New York University
New York University (NYU) founded in 1831, is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City, and is one of the largest private nonprofit institution of American. Its main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. NYC have branches at different part of the world such as NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai and 11 other Global Academic Centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C hence it has Global Network University. There is more than 20 schools, colleges, and institutes located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. As per the Institute of International Education, NYU provides more chances to the students to study abroad and the College Board reports more online searches by international students for "NYU" than for any other university. It is one of the largest universities in USA, having the enrolment of 9,300 in 1917 NYU had its Washington campus since its founding. The university purchased a campus at University Heightism the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU's move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, 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. In 1950, NYU had become Association of American Universities, which is a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities. NYU is the founding member of the League of World Universities, which is an international organization the league and its 47 representatives. They gather every two years to discuss on global issues of education.
Library:-The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library is the largest library at NYU and one of the largest academic libraries in the United States. about 4.5 million-volume system. It offers Multidisciplinary Reference Center, a Research Commons, 28 miles of open-stacks shelving, and approximately 2,000 seats for student to study. and about more than 6,800 users visit each day here , more than one million books are circulated annually.
Facilities: - From early 2000s, NYU has developed new facilities on and around its Washington Square Campus. The Kimmel Center for University Life was built in 2003 as the primary location for the university's student services offices. It also houses the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the Rosenthal Pavilion, the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, and the Loeb Student Center. The School of Law built Furman Hall in 2004, incorporating elements of two historic buildings into the new facade, one of which had been occupied by poet Edgar Allan Poe
In 2005, NYU announced the development of a new life science facility on Waverly Place, the first new NYU science building since the opening of Meyer Hall in 1971. In November 2005, NYU announced plans to build a 26-floor, 190,000-square-foot (18,000 m2) residence hall on 12th Street. The residence hall, named "Founders Hall", accommodates approximately 700 undergraduates and contains a host of other student facilities. It is currently the tallest building in the East Village.
NYU has international houses on its Manhattan campus, including the Deutsches Haus, La Maison Française, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, and the Glucksman Ireland House, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, the Hagop Kevorkian Center, an Africa House and a China House.
Campuses abroad
Tisch School of the Arts, Asia, is the 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. Anticipated enrolment 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. NYU has a host of foreign facilities used for study abroad programs, referred to as Global Academic Centers. by 2012, NYU operates 14 academic sites – both degree-granting research university campuses and study abroad sites – in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, including undergraduate academic-year and summer study abroad programs in New York City, Florence, London, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Accra, Madrid, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv,Abu Dhabi, Sydney, and Washington, D.C. One of the most noteworthy is the 57-acre (230,000 m2) campus of NYU Florence Villa LaPietra in Italy, bequeathed by the late Sir Harold Acton to NYU in 1994
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) In fall 2010 opened first overseas university's "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". In 2011, NYU announced plans to open another portal campus, New York University Shanghai, for the fall semester of 2013. It was set to have about 3,000 undergraduate students. In spring 2014, NYU opened a new campus in Paris,
Residence halls: - NYU houses approximately 11,000 undergraduate and graduate residents and had the seventh-largest university housing system in the U.S. as of 2007, and one of the largest among private schools. NYU's undergraduate housing system consists of more than 20 residence halls. Lavatories, living rooms and common areas. The university operates its own transit system to transport its students by bus to its campus. NYU has given key priority in greening of its campus. The schools and colleges of New York University are
• Arts & Science
• College of Arts and Science
• Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Liberal Studies
• The Center for Urban Science and Progress
• College of Dentistry
• College of Nursing
• College of Global Public Health
• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Gallatin School of Individual Study
• Institute of Fine Arts
• Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business
• NYU Abu Dhabi
• NYU Shanghai
• Polytechnic School of Engineering
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
• NYU School of Professional Studies
• NYU School of Law
• School of Medicine
• Silver School of Social Work
• Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
• Tisch School of the Arts
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.
Admissions:- Admission to NYU's undergraduate programs is highly selective,
Rankings
NYU is ranked 13 in the Center for World University Rankings, 15 by Global Language Monitor 17 by QS World University Rankings, 19 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 24 by Business Insider, and 32 by U.S. News & World Report.
