Tomorrow.
Yesterday.

Today. Right now. That’s when you take advantage of yesterday and prepare for tomorrow. It’s when you begin to be who you want to become. It’s when you make the move that takes you to your future—the moment you discover the heat and the cool and the vision of The City College of New York. For more than 150 years, City College has been a landmark of diversity, opportunity and academic fire, powering alumni success stories ranging from Ira Gershwin to Jonas Salk to Colin Powell to eight Nobel Prize winners. Time to add yourself to the list. Bright people, big City.

FROM HERE YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE.
AND EVERYWHERE.

BRIGHT PEOPLE, BIG FUTURE.
City College is where you punch your ticket for anyplace you want to go. Any career, any challenge, any dream. From engineering and architecture to science and the liberal arts, The City College of New York, the flagship of CUNY, is all about rigorous, world-class academic and research programs—powered by dynamic, passionate faculty who are some of the leading lights in their fields. City College is about achieving more, going beyond, being the best. Always has been: Since 1847, when City College was the first institution of its kind in America, this is where tens of thousands of success stories have begun. And you’re next. All you need is talent and desire. City College is a place that doesn’t care nearly as much about where you’re from as it cares about where you’re going. A place where you learn to learn, where you expand your life, where you go on to great things. You bring ability and motivation—we’ll provide knowledge, opportunity, affordability and the most complete, up-to-date facilities and resources.

BRIGHT PEOPLE, BIG WORLD.
One-hundred different first languages, one common thread: learning and growing. The students and faculty at The City College of New York form a community so diverse it’s amazing, yet so connected it’s pure family. The people you will meet, study with, share with and befriend here represent so many backgrounds, cultures, opinions and ideas that City College goes far beyond merely being a microcosm of today’s world. This is a laboratory for tomorrow’s possibilities. In fact, only in a place where diversity is celebrated to this extent can it become second nature. Then something else takes over: the complete confidence that what’s in a person’s heart and mind is the only thing that really matters. You will learn something new from everyone you encounter here, students and teachers and staff, in class and out. You expect your college education to bring knowledge and skills—but with a City College education you gain even more important gifts: understanding and wisdom. You’ll never see the world—or your place in it—the same way again.

TURNING REAL DIVERSITY INTO
REAL COMMUNITY.

ACADEMIC POWER
This is the engine. This is why you come here. More than 80 leading-edge undergraduate academic programs and area specializations (see the “Overview” section for the complete list), many recognized among the best in the nation. Shaped and informed by world-class research, taught by a committed faculty that operates at the forefront of new knowledge, the academic fire at City College means you will be challenged at a high level. And you will be rewarded for your effort with opportunities for access, participation and learning that in many ways rival even the elite private universities. It won’t be easy, but what you take away from the experience will serve you in your career and your life forever. Success begins here.