City University of New York

City University of New York Profile and History

Brooklyn College is an integral part of the civic, urban and artistic energy of New York and uses the entire city as a living classroom that broadens our students understanding of the world around them. For 80 years, the college has been attracting a wide variety of motivated students many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants who wish to better their lives through a superb education. T hey come because of the colleges renowned faculty of academics, professionals and artists who are among the best in their field. They know they will be learning on a campus considered one of the most beautiful in the country, with well-equipped facilities, studios, smart classrooms, and production and practice rooms all with a highly affordable tuition. Brooklyn College has a student enrollment of 16,822 students 13,095 undergraduates and 3,727 graduates who come from 136 nations and speak some 89 languages. The college offers 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the creative arts; humanities; social, behavioral and natural sciences; mathematics; education and business. Admissions criteria have become increasingly selective over the last decade, with a mean SAT score of 1134 for 2011. More than 4,000 students received bachelors and masters degrees, as well as advanced certificates, at our last Commencement Exercises.