CUNY Hunter College

United States of America

CUNY Hunter College History

CUNY Hunter College is located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York, United States. The college is the constituent college of City University of New York and was established in 1870 as a women-only college. The college presently enrolls over 20,000 students and also administers Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School. 

CUNY Hunter College Programs, Courses, and Schools

CUNY Hunter College comprises of 5 schools which offer over 100 undergraduate and graduate programs in subjects like Chemistry, Biology, English, Mathematics, Art History, Social Studies, Childhood Education, Computer Science, Dance, African and Latin Studies, and Economics to name a few. 

CUNY Hunter College also offers programs in Film, French, German, Hebrew, Media Studies, Music, Political Science, Religion, Greek and Latin, Jewish Studies, Human Biology, Early Childhood Education, Romance Languages, Urban Studies, Theatre, Studio Arts, Statistics, and Women and Gender Studies.

 CUNY Hunter College Campuses

CUNY Hunter College has its primary campus located in three towers at Lexington Avenue and East 68th Street in Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The college also maintains two satellite campuses at 3rd Avenue and Brookdale. The college is situated right in the bustling metropolis of New York which offers a great social life in addition to numerous leisure and recreational facilities. 

CUNY Hunter College offers a range of services to students such as dormitories, technologically advanced classrooms and lecture halls, dedicated study spaces, computers with wireless internet, and shops. The Hunter Library is home to over 760,000 titles including books, journals, and periodicals as well as CDs, videos, digital images, art slides, and microforms. 

CUNY Hunter College Achievements

CUNY Hunter College is ranked 523rd and 306th in the country by the Forbes Magazine and Wall Street Journal rankings. Princeton Review and USA Today have also ranked college 2nd in America in the Best Value Colleges in the United States. CUNY Hunter College has produced two Nobel Prize Laureates in the past and many of the alumni of the college have held or hold prominent positions in the government, industry, and business world. 

CUNY Hunter College USP

CUNY Hunter College offers a number of opportunities to the students to study abroad and also offers scholarships and grants for the same. The college has signed bilateral agreements with a number of universities abroad to offer summer school programs as well.CUNY Hunter College has an acceptance rate of just 37.9% which makes the college a selective institution. The admissions are based on SAT scores and previous academic records. 

CUNY Hunter College Notable Alumni

Audre Lorde (American Writer), Ruby Dee (American Actress), Vin Diesel (Hollywood Actor), and Gertrude B. Elion (American Biochemist).