INTRODUCTION TO NYU
New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. Founded in THE YEAR 1831, NYU is one of the largest private non-profit institutions of American higher education. University rankings assembled by U.S. News and World Report, Times Higher Education and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU among the top thirty- four universities in the world. NYU is organized into more than twenty schools, institutes, and collages situated in 6 centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. NYU's main campus is located at Greenwich Village which is in Lower Manhattan with institutes and centers on the Upper East Side, academic buildings and accommodation down on Wall Street, and the Brooklyn campus located at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The University has also built NYU Shanghai, NYU Abu Dhabi and maintains eleven other Global Academic Centers in Accra, Tel Aviv , Sydney, Buenos Aires, London, Madrid, Paris, Florence, Prague, Berlin, and Washington, D.C.
NYU's sports teams are called the Violets,as the colors being the trademarked hue "NYU Violet" and white; the school mascot is the bobcat. Almost all sporting teams take participation in the NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic Association.
CAMPUS AT NYU
Most of NYU's buildings in Manhattan are situated across a roughly 230 acre of area bounded by Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, 14th Street to the north, and Sixth Avenue (known as Avenue of the Americas) to the west. The core of NYU consists of buildings which surrounds the Washington Square Park.
With approximately 11,000 undergraduate and graduate residents. New York university had the 7th largest university accommodation system in the U.S. as of 2007, and one of the largest among private schools.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY'S ACADEMICS
College of Arts and Science, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Liberal Studies, Center for Urban Science and Progress, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, College of Dentistry, Rory Meyers College of Nursing,
Institute of Fine Arts, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,Silver School of Social Work,NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, School of Professional Studies, School of Law, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, School of Medicine, Steinhardt School of Culture/ Education and Human Development, Tisch School of the Arts, Tandon School of Engineering, etc.
Arts and Science is currently the largest academic division at NYU's . It has three subdivisions: the Graduate School of Arts and Science, the College of Arts and Science, and the Liberal Studies program. The College of Arts and Science and Liberal Studies program comes under undergraduate divisions, and the former has existed since the founding of NYU.
Undergraduate divisions are also seen in the College of Dentistry,Silver School of Social Work, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, College of Nursing, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU Abu Dhabi, Tandon School of Engineering, School of Professional Studies, NYU Shanghai, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and the Tisch School of the Arts. Whereas postgraduate divisions are found in all of NYU's schools and colleges.
ADMISSION
Admission at NYU's undergraduate programs has always been highly selective, with 18,500 admitted from an applicant pool of 60,322 (31%) for the class of 2019.Total freshman enrollment is 5,917 for the 2015–2016 academic year, representing 49 states and ninety-one countries, with nineteen percent as non-US citizens. Most freshmen have a typical unweighted GPA of 3.5/A (90–95%) and are in the top ten percent of the high school graduating class. The middle 50% of freshmen score between 1900 and 2150 on the SAT test and between 29 to 32 on the ACT. The student-to-faculty ratio at the New York campus is 10:1, and less than that at the Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses. The average scholarship amount awarded to freshmen is $29,528, and 21% of freshmen received Pell Grants.
ATHLETICS
NYU's sports teams are referred to as the NYU Violets, the colors being the trademarked hue "NYU Violet" and white. Since the year 1981, the school mascot has been a bobcat, whose origin can be traced back to the summary then was used by the Bobst Library computerized catalog—short: Bobcat. NYU's sports teams include baseball,both men's and women's varsity basketball, softball,volleyball, fencing, golf, cross country,wrestling , swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and soccer. All of NYU's sports teams participate in the NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic Association, with the hope of fencing, which participates in Division I. While NYU has had All-American football players, it has not yet had a varsity football team since 1952.
NYU students also compete in club and intramural sports, including baseball, basketball , badminton, equestrianism, crew, cycling,, lacrosse, martial arts, softball, ice hockey squash, tennis, rugby, triathlon, and ultimate. The Coles Sports and Recreation Center serves as the home pillar for several of NYU's intercollegiate athletic teams. Many of NYU's varsity teams play their games at various facilities and fields all over Manhattan due to the scarcity of space for playing fields near campus. In 2002, NYU established the Palladium Athletic Facility as the second on-campus recreational facility.
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