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New York City Education: Colleges and Universities

Columbia University (formerly King's College), in New York, N.Y.; private control; founded 1754; undergraduate courses in Columbia College and School of General Studies (adult education); graduate and professional schools of architecture, business, dental and oral surgery, dramatic arts, engineering, international affairs, journalism, law, library service, medicine, nursing, painting and sculpture, public health, social work; nonprofessional graduate faculties of philosophy, political science, pure science; affiliated institutions: Barnard College (women), Teachers College, College of Pharmacy

City University of New York, in New York, N.Y.; municipal control; founded 1847; institutions include Bernard Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter, Lehman, Queens, Richmond, and York colleges, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; graduate studies

New York University, in New York, N.Y.; private control; established 1831; arts and sciences, commerce, dentistry, education, engineering, fine arts, law, medicine, public administration, social work; graduate school; overseas program.

Polytechnic Institute of New York (formerly Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn), merged with New York University School of Engineering and Science, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; private control; incorporated 1854; engineering, science; graduate studies; branches at Farmingdale and White Plains (graduate school).

Fordham University, in New York, N.Y.; private control, Catholic-related; founded 1841; liberal arts, business administration, adult education, business, education, law, social service; graduate work.

Yeshiva University, New York City; Jewish; founded 1896; coordinate colleges for men and women on undergraduate level; arts and sciences, Jewish studies and religious education, medicine; coeducational in graduate schools.

Juilliard School, The, in New York City; private control; founded 1905; located at Lincoln Center after 1969; music, dance, drama; concurrent studies in humanities or liberal arts; graduate study

State University of New York, established 1948 as part of The University of the State of New York; comprises the university centers at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook; medical centers at Syracuse and Brooklyn; 15 four-year state colleges, including one at Cornell University and one at Alfred University; health science centers at Buffalo and Stony Brook; 3 specialized colleges; 29 community colleges; and 6 two-year agricultural and technical colleges.