Queens College City University of New York
History
Queens College in Flushing, Queens, opened its doors in 1937 with the goal of offering a first-rate education to talented people of all backgrounds and financial means. Part of the City University of New York (CUNY) since its founding in 1961, Queens College is one of CUNY’s largest senior colleges. Often referred to as “the jewel of the CUNY system,” the college enjoys a national reputation for its liberal arts and sciences and preprofessional programs.
Mission
Queens College prepares students to become leaders of our global society by offering a rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences under the guidance of a faculty dedicated to both teaching and research. Students graduate with the ability to think critically, address complex problems, explore various cultures, and use modern technologies and information resources. With a faculty and student population that reflects the diversity of New York City, Queens College provides an unusually rich education.
Students
• The college’s achievement-oriented and hard-working students are likely to have graduated in the top 25% of their high school class.
• Princeton Review’s America’s Best Value Colleges (2006 edition) ranks Queens eighth in the nation for its outstanding academics, generous financial aid packages, and relatively low costs.
• Enrollment: 17,639
• 13,019 undergraduates: 69% attend full-time
• 4,620 graduate students: 91% attend part-time
• Queens ranks in the first tier in the category of “Best Universities–Master’s–North” in U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges (2006 edition)
Campus and Student Activities
The college is located on a beautiful 77-acre, tree-lined campus surrounding grassy open spaces and a traditional Quad. The completely renovated Powdermaker Hall, the major classroom building, reopened in fall 2003 with state-of-the-art technology throughout. The Benjamin Rosenthal Library, with its soaring, light-filled atrium and distinctive clock tower, features innovations in information retrieval. The college is also expanding its wireless capability, opening new cafés and dining areas, installing plasma boards, updating the Student Union and several other buildings, and embarking on a variety of campus-beautification projects.
Because Queens is a commuter college, the administration is dedicated to making students feel that the college is their home-away-from-home, with over 100 clubs and a full athletics program. In fact, Queens is the only CUNY college that participates in Division II sports. A Child Development Center, staffed by professionals, offers inexpensive child care services to students with children. Ongoing cultural events include readings by renowned writers, concerts, and theatre and dance performances. The college is also home to the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, which houses more than 3,500 works of art.
The college holds courses at several off-campus locations, including the 43rd Street Extension Center in Manhattan and the CUNY Center for Higher Education in vibrant downtown Flushing, which opened in late 2003.
Faculty
The college’s faculty consists of top scholars who are dedicated to teaching. There are 581 full-time faculty, 86% of whom have the terminal degree in their field (not all fields offer doctorates), and 75% have tenure. Many also teach in Ph.D. programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Our faculty have received numerous research grants from such prestigious organizations as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. In recent years they have also received several Guggenheim awards and Fulbright grants.
Degree Programs
The college offers over 115 undergraduate and graduate majors. Academic programs are organized into four divisions, which offer both day and evening courses: Arts and Humanities; Education; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; and the Social Sciences.
The college recently introduced new degree programs in Graphic Design and Neuropsychology as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration degree that offers majors in Finance, International Business, and Actuarial Studies. New additions to the graduate curriculum include a degree program in environmental geotechnology and two certificate programs: one in earth sciences for high school teachers and another in archives record management and conservation.
Queens College participates in the CUNY Honors College. This challenging program for academically gifted students provides full tuition, an academic expense account, mentors, internships, a free laptop, special seminars, and study abroad programs. Queens College also offers its own Honors programs in the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences to qualified students.
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65-30 Kissena Blvd
Queens, NY 11004
Phone: 718-997-5000
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