New York University

Education: founded in 1831, nyu is among the largest private not-for-profit research universities in the u.s., with 20 schools and institutes, approximately 5,000 full-time faculty members, and approximately 60,000 matriculating students. Nyu annually confers over 22,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees; it provides over $650 million per year in scholarship aid to undergraduates and since the fall of 2021 has met demonstrated need for incoming first-year undergraduates. Nyu has an unparalleled international presence with three degree-granting liberal arts research university campuses (in new york, abu dhabi, and shanghai) and 13 global academic sites (for study abroad) on six continents; sends more students to study abroad than any other u.s. College or university; and enrolls more international students than any other u.s. University.

Research and scholarship: nyu is a major research institution, with significant support from nih, nsf and other funders; it is a top 12 institution nationally in the nsf's annual higher education research and development survey (and #1 in new york state), and it is one of the select group of us universities with research expenditures exceeding $1 billion per year. The research and creative output of nyu's scholars have led to the receipt of nobel prizes; abel prizes; pulitzer prizes; guggenheims; the national medal of the arts; the national medal of science; the national medal of technology; nsf waterman awards; max planck awards; the kavli prize; membership for dozens of faculty in the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine; academy awards; tony awards; and grammy awards, among many other honors for the university's faculty. Nyu faculty findings are regularly published in top journals across a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In 2024, clarivate analytics' highly cited researchers list named twenty-five new york university professors among the world's most-cited researchers. Nyu has leading programs in economics, mathematics (and particularly applied mathematics), neuroscience, genomics, soft condensed matter physics, sociology, philosophy, the law, medicine and bio-medical sciences, the cinematic and performing arts, and business and finance, among many other scholarly fields.

Other program services: student services; student aid; library; and operation and maintenance of plant.