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Queens College: Building Futures for 80 Years Academic rigor. Amazing affordability. Award-winning faculty. With more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs, Queens College appears annually in the Princeton Review`s America`s Best Colleges because of our exceptional academics, affordability, and diversity. Indeed, our students hail from over 170 countries and speak more than 90 languages, providing an extraordinary educational environment. As reported in the New York Times, the Equal Opportunity Project places Queens College among the top 1% of colleges nationwide for moving students from poverty to prosperity. Our campus boasts 80 tree-lined acres with a traditional grassy quad, surrounded by a mix of historic Spanish-style and modern buildings with state-of-the art facilities. The college offers you urban amenities—excellent cultural attractions, including readings by renowned writers, performing arts events, scholarly conferences, art exhibits, and numerous places to eat—on its peaceful grounds with a magnificent view of the Manhattan skyline. You`ll find our campus a comfortable place, with cybercafés, a fitness center, and over 90 clubs and Division II sports teams that offer you a chance to explore your interests and meet people who share them. You will have the opportunity to enhance your college experience by living in the world`s greatest city at the Summit Apartments, our beautiful and affordable residence hall. Located between our gym and library, the Summit Apartments offers fully furnished 2- and 4-bedroom apartments, study lounges on each floor, its own fitness center, music practice rooms, free Wi-Fi and digital cable TV, and more. Our Mission Dedicated to the idea that a first-rate education should be accessible to talented people of all backgrounds and financial means, Queens College prepares students to become citizens of our global society. From graduate and undergraduate degrees, a variety of honors and pre-professional programs to research and real-work internship opportunities, you`ll find countless ways to realize your potential under the guidance of our award-winning faculty. Queens College graduates the most teachers, counselors, and principals in the metropolitan area. It also contributes to the city`s talent pool as a powerful economic engine and a leader in tech education, with more undergraduate computer science majors than any New York City college. Students from across the country and around the world come to the Aaron Copland School of Music. Its renowned faculty and alumni include nationally recognized composers, conductors and performers who have received nearly 40 Grammy Awards and nominations over the past 40 years.
Founded in 1908 and sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, Georgian Court University is a comprehensive, coeducational university with a strong liberal arts core and an historic, special concern for women. A forward-thinking university that supports diversity and academic excellence, Georgian Court serves nearly 2,500 students of all faiths and backgrounds in both undergraduate and graduate programs. The main campus is located at 900 Lakewood Avenue, Lakewood, N.J., on the picturesque former George Jay Gould estate, a National Historic Landmark. Georgian Court also serves students at New Jersey Coastal Communiversity in Wall and through multiple online certificate and degree programs.
Gulf Coast State College holds students and community of central importance. The college provides many opportunities for learning and offers a range of programs and services to help students become well-educated, productive citizens. The college is equally dedicated to collaborating with the community to help create or improve economic well-being and to offer the space of the college for social dialog, events of art and culture, and other moments that enhance our quality of life.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the nation`s largest urban public university, a transformative engine of social mobility that is a critical component of the lifeblood of New York City. Founded in 1847 as the nation`s first free public institution of higher education, CUNY today has seven community colleges, 11 senior colleges and seven graduate or professional institutions spread across New York City`s five boroughs, serving over 260,000 undergraduate and graduate students and awarding 55,000 degrees each year. CUNY`s mix of quality and affordability propels almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all the Ivy League colleges combined. More than 80 percent of the University`s graduates stay in New York, contributing to all aspects of the city`s economic, civic and cultural life and diversifying the city`s workforce in every sector. CUNY`s graduates and faculty have received many prestigious honors, including 13 Nobel Prizes and 26 MacArthur “Genius” Grants. The University`s historic mission continues to this day: provide a first-rate public education to all students, regardless of means or background.
Learn more about Augustana College: Founded in 1860, Augustana College is a selective four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences. The college offers 90 majors and areas of study, a student-faculty ratio of 12:1, average class sizes of 18, 25 varsity athletic teams and 13 music ensembles. Augustana is recognized for the innovative program Augie Choice, which provides each student up to $2,000 to pursue a high-impact learning experience such as study abroad, an internship or research with a professor. The college enrolls 2,600 students and is located in the Quad Cities (pop. 400,000) along one of the world`s most important waterways, the Mississippi River, in a community that reflects the diversity of the United States