Hunter College

695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
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(212) 772-4490

www.hunter.cuny.edu


Founded in 1870, Hunter is one of the oldest and most distinguished public colleges in the nation. It is the largest college in the CUNY system and the first choice of all students applying to CUNY. Hunter provides undergraduate and graduate students alike with first-rate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, as well as in professional fields including education, health professions, nursing, and social work.



Special Programs

The Block Program is a specially designed academic program for first-semester students. The program encapsulates a general or liberal arts program by enabling the students to explore the breadth of disciplines at the College and refine their reading, writing, public speaking, and quantitative reasoning skills.

Four-Year Hunter College Scholarship Programs for entering freshmen include the Macaulay Honors College, the CUNY Teacher Academy at Hunter College, and the Thomas Hunter Honors Program.

Hunter also offers study abroad and participates in the National Student Exchange. Students may earn academic credit through career-oriented In-Service Learning Internships in a variety of majors.

Special Internship and Research Programs: Education for Public Service; In-Service Learning Internships; Internship in NYC. Government; Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC); and Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS).

Facts

  • Hunter is the nation's #2 "Best Value" public college for 2010, according to "Best Value Colleges for 2010," a ranking compiled by The Princeton Review. The Review selected the institutions as its "best value" choices based on its surveys of administrators and students at more than 650 public and private colleges and universities. The selection criteria covered more than 30 factors in three areas: academics, cost of attendance, and financial aid.
  • Hunter receives the highest amount of National Institutes of Health funding among all New York State undergraduate institutions without medical schools.
  • Hunter is the only college in the country whose roster of alumni includes two female Nobel laureates in medicine.
  • Centers and institutes on the Hunter campuses include such national leaders as the Brookdale Center on Healthy Aging and Longevity; the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO), the only university-based research institute in the country dedicated to the study of the Puerto Rican experience; the Center for Analysis of Spatial Information (CARSI); and the Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function.

Since its earliest days, Hunter has been dedicated to serving a student body that reflects the diversity of New York City. Today the College is a microcosm of New York's global, multicultural society. Hunter students come from more than 150 countries and speak approximately 150 languages, and many are the first in their family to attend college.

Hunter is a comprehensive teaching, research, and service institution that serves New York and the nation by providing students with a top-flight education. Many programs emphasize preparation for specific careers, but, at the same time, a principal aim of the College is to help students develop their rational, critical, and creative powers. Thus, Hunter graduates have the intellectual tools needed for success in many fields and can pursue more than one career in their lives--as today's economy often demands.

Hunter College is made up of five schools: Arts and Sciences; Education; Health Professions; Nursing; and Social Work. The College's main campus is located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where a complex of four buildings interconnected by skywalks houses the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education. The campus's official address is 695 Park Avenue, but the four buildings occupy various sites running from 67th Street to 69th Street and from Lexington Avenue to Park Avenue.

The Schools of the Health Professions and the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing are located at East 25th Street on Hunter's Brookdale Campus. Also at the Brookdale Campus is the Brookdale Center on Healthy Aging and Longevity. In 2011 the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter will open in a new building in East Harlem, which will also house the School of Social Work, which is now located at East 79th Street.

Hunter graduates are admitted to medical schools at a rate far higher than the national average. Hunter graduates are frequent recipients of coveted prizes and awards, including Fulbright and Mellon Fellowships and Howard Hughes Pre-doctoral Fellowships. They are also regularly accepted into graduate programs at many of the nation's most prestigious universities.

Hunter's faculty is made up of a corps of dedicated scholar-teachers, many of them nationally renowned leaders in their fields. They have won scores of major grants and many have won highly prestigious awards including Guggenheim fellowships and MacArthur awards (the "Genius Grant").

The Hunter College Scholarship and Welfare Fund offers scholarships to highly qualified Hunter students. Some scholarships also include a free room at the Hunter College Residence Hall located on the Brookdale campus. The Fund also offers scholarships to graduating seniors who go on to graduate school.

Many Hunter students participate in campus clubs, intramural sports, and intercollegiate athletic teams. Hunter offers what is widely considered the premier athletic program in the City University of New York. The College's softball and tennis teams, as well as men's and women's volleyball and basketball, consistently win CUNY championships.

Collections in the Hunter College libraries are housed in the two libraries located at the 68th Street campus--the Jacqueline Grennan Wexler Library and the Zabar Library (which contains digitized art material)--as well as in the branch libraries at the Brookdale campus and the School of Social Work. Combined, these libraries hold some 800,000 volumes, 5,800 periodical print subscriptions, and a non-print collection that includes more than 1.2 million microforms, 46,000 electronic periodical subscriptions, and some 15,000 audiovisual materials. The 250,000 slides in the former Art Slide Library, now the Zabar Library, have been digitized and are available online.

Travel Directions

Subway: #6 (Lexington Avenue line) to 68th Street or F train to 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue.

Bus: M66 crosstown to Lexington Avenue or M98, 101, 102, 103 uptown on 3rd Avenue to 68th Street or downtown on Lexington Avenue.

For driving directions, visit our website at: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/maps.shtml

College Contacts

Pre-Admissions/Welcome Center
Gary Lupinacci

North Building, Room 100
(212) 772-4289
welcomecenter@hunter.cuny.edu

Financial Aid
Ms. Aristalia CORTORREAL DIAZ

North Building, Room 241
(212) 772-4820
faohc@hunter.cuny.edu