New York University is a private institution that was founded in the year 1831. It has undergraduate enrollment of around 22,097 and its setting is urban. It has a semester based academic calendar. The University's ranking in 2012 edition of the Best Colleges is National Universities, 33.
New York University’s primary campus is located in the lively Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The University is a true city school, with no borders separating the distinct campus from streets of the Big Apple. Students are ensured housing for all four years in the many residence halls throughout Manhattan, but several upperclassmen opts to live off campus in apartments around the city. The University has a small however active Greek life with over 25 fraternity and sorority chapters. There prevail hundreds of student organizations on campus, like NYU-TV, which operates the University Channel and the Movie Channel both to provide the entertainment and information to community of university.
NYU is divided into a number of schools and colleges, the leading of which is the College of Arts and Sciences. For the students which are interested in drama or film, the well known Tisch School of the Arts is the place to go, providing undergraduate and graduate programs both in dramatic writing, acting, television, dance, film, and more. The former Tisch students include directors the Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. The other graduate programs comprise of the highly ranked Steinhardt School of Culture, Stern School of Business; Education, and Human Development; School of Law; School of Medicine; Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of the Public Service and the Silver School of Social Work.
Campus Location
70 Washington Square S
New York, NY 10012
General Information
School type-private, coed college
Year founded-1831
Religious affiliation-N/A
Academic calendar-semester
Setting-urban