New York Colleges

New York City, the Big Apple, is the most populous city in the United States. New York City hosts 594,000 university students, the highest number of any city in the United States, attending 81 colleges and universities. The city is comprised of many notable and the most elite and exclusive private schools in the country, a global center for scientific research institutions in medicine, life sciences and biomedicine, and dozens of other smaller private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions, and several of the nation's top schools of art and design. Public postsecondary education is provided by the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation's third-largest public university system, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.