| 1. New York University (NYU) is a private, | | | | Review. |
| nonsectarian, coeducational research university that is | | | | 9. NYU has 31 Nobel Prize winners, two Abel Prize |
| located in New York City. | | | | winners, nine National Medal of Science recipients, 16 |
| 2. The main campus of NYU is located in the | | | | Pulitzer Prize winners, 19 Academy Award winners |
| Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. | | | | (more than any other American university), Emmy, |
| 3. NYU was founded in 1831, and is the largest | | | | Grammy, and Tony Award winners, and MacArthur |
| private, nonprofit institution of higher education in the | | | | and Guggenheim Fellowship holders among its past |
| U.S., with an enrollment of more than 40,000 | | | | and present graduates and faculty. |
| students. | | | | 10. NYU has a very active student body for an urban |
| 4. NYU consists of 16 schools, colleges, and divisions, | | | | campus and some of the first fraternities in the |
| located in 6 areas throughout Manhattan. | | | | country were formed at NYU. |
| 5. NYU has study abroad programs in London, Paris, | | | | 11. Many university traditions take place every year |
| Florence, Prague, Madrid, Berlin, Accra, Shanghai, and | | | | among the various clubs and twenty-one |
| Singapore, and has just announced facilities scheduled | | | | undergraduate residence halls at NYU. With 12,500 |
| to open in the spring of 2008 in Tel Aviv and Buenos | | | | residents, NYU has the 7th largest university housing |
| Aires. | | | | system in the United State and the largest among |
| 6. Recently, the United Arab Emirates government | | | | private schools. |
| has announced plans to fund a campus abroad for | | | | 12. NYU's sports teams are called the Violets, and |
| New York University in the capital city of Abu Dhabi. | | | | their colors being the trademarked "NYU Violet" and |
| 7. Polytechnic University, an engineering and | | | | white. |
| technology university located in Brooklyn, NY, has | | | | 13. The school's mascot is the bobcat. |
| agreed to merge into NYU. It will become the | | | | 14. Almost all of NYU's sporting teams participate in |
| Polytechnic Institute of New York University and will | | | | the NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic |
| provide NYU with an engineering school for the first | | | | Association. |
| time in 3 decades. | | | | 15. While NYU has had All-American football players in |
| 8. For 4 consecutive years, NYU has been ranked as | | | | the past, they have not had a varsity football team |
| America's "#1 Dream School" by The Princeton | | | | since the 1960s. |