Brooklyn College is an integral part of the civic, urban and artistic energy of New York and uses the entire city as a living classroom that broadens our students' understanding of the world around them.
For more than 80 years, the college has been attracting a wide variety of motivated students - many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants who wish to better their lives through a superb education. They come because of the college's renowned faculty of academics, professionals and artists who are among the best in their field. They know they will be learning on a campus considered one of the most beautiful in the country, with well-equipped facilities, studios, smart classrooms, and production and practice rooms - all with a highly affordable tuition.
Brooklyn College has a student enrollment of 17,390 students - 14,115 undergraduates and 3,275 graduates who come from 150 nations and speak 105 languages.
The college offers 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the creative arts; humanities; social, behavioral and natural sciences, mathematics, education and business. Admissions criteria have become increasingly selective over the last decade, with a mean SAT score of 1134 for 2011. More than 4,000 students received bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as advanced certificates, at our last Commencement Exercises.
Location & Facilities
Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College (then a women's college) and the City College of New York (then a men's college). With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The 26-acre (110,000 m2) campus is known for its great beauty, and is often regarded as "the poor man's Harvard" because of its low tuition and reputation for academic excellence.