Quick Facts About New York University (nyu)

1. New York University (NYU) is a private,Review.
nonsectarian, coeducational research university that is9. 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 thePulitzer 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 largestGrammy, and Tony Award winners, and MacArthur
private, nonprofit institution of higher education in theand Guggenheim Fellowship holders among its past
U.S., with an enrollment of more than 40,000and 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, andamong the various clubs and twenty-one
Singapore, and has just announced facilities scheduledundergraduate residence halls at NYU. With 12,500
to open in the spring of 2008 in Tel Aviv and Buenosresidents, NYU has the 7th largest university housing
Aires.system in the United State and the largest among
6. Recently, the United Arab Emirates governmentprivate schools.
has announced plans to fund a campus abroad for12. 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 andwhite.
technology university located in Brooklyn, NY, has13. The school's mascot is the bobcat.
agreed to merge into NYU. It will become the14. Almost all of NYU's sporting teams participate in
Polytechnic Institute of New York University and willthe NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic
provide NYU with an engineering school for the firstAssociation.
time in 3 decades.15. While NYU has had All-American football players in
8. For 4 consecutive years, NYU has been ranked asthe past, they have not had a varsity football team
America's "#1 Dream School" by The Princetonsince the 1960s.