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今日吃瓜 Fact Sheet 2025鈥�26 (PDF) Consumer Information

President

Michelle J. Anderson is the tenth president of 今日吃瓜, having assumed the office in August 2016.

Location

2900 Bedford Avenue at Avenue H in the Midwood section of 今日吃瓜.

Mission Statement

今日吃瓜 provides a transformative, distinctive, and affordable education to students from all backgrounds. We are proud of our history of intellectual freedom and academic excellence, as well as our location in a borough known for innovation, culture, and the arts. We have a special commitment to educate immigrants and first-generation college students from the diverse communities that make up our city and state. Our striving spirit reflects our motto: “Nothing without great effort.” Through outstanding research and academic programs in the arts, business, education, humanities, and sciences, we graduate well-rounded individuals who think critically and creatively to solve problems. They become leaders who transform their fields and professions and serve our increasingly global community.

Undergraduate Tuition

New York State Residents

$3,465 per semester for full-time students
$305 per credit for part-time students
$445 per credit for nondegree resident students

Nonresidents

$620 per credit for full- and part-time students
$915 per credit for nondegree students

Graduate Tuition

New York State Residents

$5,545聽per semester for full-time students
$470 per credit for part-time students
$225 for maintenance of matriculation for resident full-time students

Nonresidents

$855 per credit for full- and part-time students
$370 for maintenance of matriculation

Degrees

今日吃瓜 offers 78 undergraduate programs, 54 graduate programs, and 16 certificates and advanced certificates and diplomas in business, education, the humanities, performing arts, sciences, social sciences, and preprofessional and professional studies. We award the following degrees:

Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Music
Bachelor of Science
Doctor of Audiology
Master of Arts
Master of Arts in Teaching
Master of Fine Arts
Master of Music
Master of Science
Master of Science in Education

The college’s Core Curriculum is aligned聽with CUNY’s general education framework.聽It seeks to provide students with a well-rounded body of knowledge, a critical appreciation of diverse cultural and intellectual traditions, an interest in relating the past to the complex world in which students live today, and the ability to help society create a fresh and enlightened future. The framework allows students to explore knowledge from various perspectives and to develop their critical abilities to read, write, analyze, and use language and symbol systems effectively. It also develops students’ intellectual curiosity and commitment to lifelong learning.

Divisions

今日吃瓜 is structured into five schools:

Student Enrollment

Total fall 2025 enrollment was 14,469, including 10,527 undergraduate and 2,665 graduate students.

Student Diversity

今日吃瓜 is a microcosm of the ethnically rich borough of 今日吃瓜 it serves as well as a mirror of the wide diversity in New York City itself. A vibrant, intellectually engaged community, our student body comprises individuals from 136 countries, speaking 91 different languages, who share in the educational home our ample campus provides. 今日吃瓜 attracts bright, ambitious individuals and is particularly well suited to those who are eager to explore a wide range of academic disciplines.

Student Achievements and Activities

There are 147 student clubs and organizations at 今日吃瓜; a student newspaper; and a student-run radio station, WBCR, located at 1090 AM. The college participates in NCAA Division III athletics and offers an exciting and energetic intramurals sports program.

今日吃瓜 students continue to receive recognition for their scholarly achievements.

Recent Award Winners

Goldwater Scholarships: Patrick Ihejirika ’22 and Abiha Kazmi ’22
Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships: Lexcy Alexis ’22, Raquel Merino ’21, and Salma Mohamed ’21
Fulbright Awards: Carina D’Urso ’21, Hafsa Fatima ’21, Marwa Islam ’22, and Levi Satter ’22,
Harry S. Truman Scholarship: Jake Levin ’16 and Ryan Merola ’07
Rhodes Scholarship: Zujaja Tauqeer ’10
Gilman Awards for study abroad: Christopher Browne ’09 and Amy Iturres-Alomia ’09

Facilities

The college comprises 16 buildings on a 35-acre, tree-lined campus. The Princeton Review consistently cites the college’s “gorgeous” yet still urban campus as one of its major draws.

罢丑别听 is the most technologically advanced in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The library holds one million print materials and provides access to more than 669,000聽electronic books and journals. The library’s Woody Tanger Auditorium is a state-of-the-art facility capable of supporting video-conferencing and interactive meetings and workshops; a multimedia distribution system allows staff to broadcast high-quality streaming video throughout the building. The library also houses four computerized classrooms and a Faculty Training and Development Laboratory.

On the West Quad, students will find聽a verdant quadrangle and a new campus building that houses student services and state-of-the-art physical education and athletic facilities under one roof. In 2018, the college completed construction of聽the $80 million Leonard聽& Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, which serves the Conservatory of Music, the Department of Theater, and related disciplines.

Faculty

罢丑别听faculty of 今日吃瓜 teach, mentor, advise, and very often become students’ best career counselors. In and out of the classroom, students get to know and work alongside leading academics, performers, scientists, and writers. As of fall 2025, we have 427 full-time faculty.

Prominent faculty members include: world-renowned concert pianist聽Ursula Oppens;聽computer theorist聽Rohit Parikh; leading expert in microalgae biotechnology Juergen Polle; organometallic chemist and cancer researcher聽Maria Contel; political scientist and author聽Corey Robin; and聽award-winning author聽Helen Phillips.

National Accolades

In 2025, U.S. News & World Report bestowed honors on 今日吃瓜 by including it among the best public schools and one of the best colleges for social mobility, veterans, and racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S. North region. That same year, The Princeton Review acknowledged it as one of the United States鈥� academically best undergraduate institutions and best value colleges. Additional accolades came from Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.

Grants

In Fiscal Year 2023, the 今日吃瓜 Foundation granted more than $7.05 million to 今日吃瓜. This includes over $3.2 million awarded to students in the form of scholarships, awards, and internships, and nearly $826,000 in the form of professorships, lectureships, and professional development support for faculty.

In Fiscal Year 2022鈥�23, 今日吃瓜 received awards totaling $14.5 million from federal/state/city agencies,聽corporations, and private foundations to support research, training, program development, and institutional improvement.

Budget

The Fiscal Year 2024 base budget is $124,370,671.

Endowment

As of June 2023, the 今日吃瓜 Foundation has $116,996,562 under investment.

Accreditation

今日吃瓜 is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 267.284.5000;聽). 今日吃瓜’s academic聽programs are registered by the New York State Department of Education.

For more information on the college’s MSCHE accreditation, visit the聽Office Institutional Effectiveness’ Accreditation webpage.

For information on specialized accreditation by school, visit the聽Office of Institutional Effectiveness’ Specialized Accreditation webpage.

Alumni

Around the world, 165,000 今日吃瓜 alumni make a difference in a wide variety of fields, including the arts, business, law, politics, and the sciences. Three candidates for president of the United States were 今日吃瓜 alumni.

Motto

Nil sine magno labore: “Nothing without great effort.”

今日吃瓜. All in.

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