Liberal arts school of New York University
The New York University College of Arts & Science (CAS ) is the primary
liberal arts college of
New York University (NYU) . The school is located near
Gould Plaza next to the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the
Stern School of Business , adjoining
Washington Square Park in
Greenwich Village .
[2] As the oldest and largest college within NYU, the College of Arts & Science currently enrolls 7,660 undergraduate students (as of 2017). CAS enrolls the largest number of undergraduate students for a private liberal arts college in the United States; its size and complexity owe to NYU's overall profile of enrolling the largest number of students in the country for a private, nonprofit, residential, and nonsectarian institution of higher education.
[3] The College of Arts & Science offers
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees.
In the 2020
QS World University Rankings , NYU was ranked 1st in
philosophy , 10th in
mathematics , and 15th in
English language and literature .
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Admission to the College of Arts & Science is highly competitive, with an acceptance rate of 4% for the class of 2027.
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History
see:
History of New York University
In 1914, Washington Square College was established, downtown, to serve commuter students.
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Academics
The college provides an undergraduate liberal arts education through its Core Curriculum. Undergraduate students may select from 66 majors as well as a host of accelerated Bachelor's-Master's and pre-professional programs offered through 30 departments, many of which also offer courses at NYU's 13 study away sites. Additionally, students may select from over 60 minors offered within the College as well as 40 cross-school minors at other colleges within NYU.
Student life
Clubs and traditions
The school also hosts multiple student organizations, including
greek life ,
political ,
religious ,
ethnic , and
music performance groups (often alongside the
Tisch School of Arts ).
The university also sponsors some traditions for undergraduates including Apple Fest, the Violet Ball, Strawberry Festival, and the semi-annual
midnight breakfast where Student Affairs administrators serve free breakfast to students before
finals .
Publications and journalism clubs
The College of Arts and Science runs several student journalism clubs and publication with the
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute , including
Washington Square News ,
NYU Local ,
Washington Square Local , and the literary journals
Washington Square Review and
The Minetta Review .
[8] The university also associated (though not officially affiliated) with the campus comedy magazine, The Plague , which started to poke fun at
popular culture as well as campus life and the idiosyncrasies of NYU in 1978.
The university also runs a radio station
WNYU-FM 89.1, which broadcasts to the entire
New York metropolitan area .
Secret societies
Several undergraduate
secret societies have existed at the College of Arts & Science. Starting in 1832, the
Philomathean Society and the
Eucleian Society were formed, making rivals of each other. When the Philomathean Society died out, its remnants formed the Andiron Club in 1904.
[9] The most selective and famous club on campus is the
Red Dragon Society , founded in 1898, which continues to exist to this day.
[10] Many notable NYU alumni have been members of these secret societies, including
Elmer Ellsworth Brown ,
Howard Cann ,
John Harvey Kellogg ,
Walter Reed , and
Frederic Tuten .
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Edgar Allan Poe was an occasional guest at the Eucleian Society.
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Notable alumni
Academics
Howard Zinn , Class of 1967
Martha Nussbaum , Class of 1969
Edward J. Bloustein , B.A. 1948; former president of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Lionel Casson , B.A. 1934; classicist, archeologist, professor emeritus at New York University
Howard Crosby , B.A. 1844; Presbyterian minister and NYU chancellor 1870–1881
Richard Davidson , B.A. 1972; Professor of Psychology at
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Morris Janowitz , B.A. 1941; founder of
military sociology , professor at
University of Chicago
Richard Joel , B.A. 1972; current president of
Yeshiva University , New York City
Joseph Keller , B.A. 1943; 1988
National Medal of Science recipient
Paul Kurtz , B.A. 1948; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the
State University of New York at Buffalo
Ellen Langer , B.A. 1970; Professor of Psychology at
Harvard University
Peter D. Lax , B.A. 1947; mathematician, 2005
Abel Prize recipient, 1986
National Medal of Science recipient
Sherwin B. Nuland , B.A. 1951; bioethicist, author of How We Die
Martha Nussbaum , B.A. 1969; philosopher, professor at
University of Chicago
Leonard Peikoff , B.A. 1954; philosopher, leading advocate of
Objectivism
Howard Zinn , B.A. 1951; historian, author of
A People's History of the United States
Arts, acting, and entertainment
Milton Babbitt , B.A. 1935; composer, 1986
MacArthur Fellow
Bob Balaban , B.A. 1977; actor
Neil Diamond (Did not graduate); musician
Tom Ford (Did not graduate); fashion designer and film director
William Gaines , B.A. 1948; founder of
MAD Magazine
Ilana Glazer , B.A. 2009; co-star and co-creator of the
Comedy Central series
Broad City
Ethan Hawke (Did not graduate); actor
Tom Kirdahy , B.A. 1985; Theater producer and activist
Stanley Kramer , B.A. 1933; film director
Ken Leung , B.A. 1992; actor
Dave Liebman , B.A. 1967; jazz musician
Leonard Maltin , B.A. 1973; film critic
Glen Mazzara , B.A. 1989; television producer
Alan Menken , B.A. 1972; musical theater and film composer
Valeria Mercer , B.A. 1979; Head Curator of African-American Art (Detroit Institute of Arts)
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Meg Ryan , B.A. 1982; actor
Martin Scorsese , Class of 1964
Authors and writers
Frank McCourt , Class of 1957
Elizabeth Gilbert , Class of 1991
Elizabeth Gilbert , B.A. 1991; author of
Eat, Pray, Love
Joseph Heller , B.A. 1948; author of
Catch-22
Ira Levin , B.A. 1950; author
Frank McCourt , B.A. 1957; 1997
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography recipient, author of
Angela's Ashes
Cynthia Ozick , B.A. 1930; author
Kira Peikoff , B.A. 2007; author and journalist
Charles Simic , B.A. 1967; 1984
MacArthur Fellow , Recipient of 1990
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry , 15th
United States Poet Laureate
Business
Maria Bartiromo , Class of 1987
Maria Bartiromo , B.A. 1987;
Fox Business Network television journalist
Clive Davis , B.A. 1953; founder of
Arista Records
Marvin Davis , B.S. 1947; owner of
Denver Broncos , billionaire, industrialist
Jack Dorsey (Did not graduate); co-founder of
Twitter and
Square, Inc.
Arthur Frommer , B.A. 1950; tourism industry writer
Scott Harrison , B.A. 1998; founder and CEO of the non-profit
charity: water
Boris Jordan , B.A. 1988; billionaire, investor
Henry Kaufman , B.A. 1948; president of Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
Mildred Robbins Leet , B.A. 1942; entrepreneur and philanthropist
Mark Leslie , B.A. 1966; venture capitalist and founder of
Veritas Technologies
Joseph Nacchio , B.S. 1970; former chairman and chief executive officer of
Qwest Communications International
Marc Rich (Did not graduate); commodities trader, billionaire, fugitive
Larry Silverstein , B.A. 1952; billionaire, real estate investor
Sy Syms , B.A. 1946; founder of Syms Clothing
Dennis Tito , B.A. 1962; entrepreneur,
space tourist
Journalism
Ray Suarez , Class of 1985
Lynda Baquero , B.A. 1974; correspondent for
WNBC
Don Hewitt , B.A. 1941; television producer, creator of
60 Minutes
Ray Suarez , B.A. 1985; broadcast journalist, host of
Inside Story on
Al Jazeera America
Alvin Toffler , B.A. 1949;
futurist , writer, journalist
Gene Weingarten , B.A. 1973;
Washington Post journalist, two-time
Pulitzer Prize winner
Law
Constance Baker Motley , B.A. 1940; civil rights activist, judge, state senator,
Borough President of
Manhattan
Evan Chesler , B.A. 1970; partner and former chairman,
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Jonathan Lippman , B.A. 1965;
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Victor Marrero , B.A. 1963; United States federal senior judge
Herbert Wachtell , B.S. 1952; co-founder of the law firm of
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Politics and government
Jerome Anthony Ambro , B.A. 1955; US Congressman
Bill de Blasio , B.A. 1984; 109th
Mayor of New York City
Irwin Delmore Davidson , B.S. 1927; US Congressman
Thomas De Witt Talmage , B.A. 1853; preacher, religious leader, social reformer
Steven Boghos Derounian , B.A. 1938; US Congressman
William Henry Draper, Jr. , B.A. 1916; first
U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
Fernando Ferrer , B.A. 1972; former Bronx Borough president and 2005 Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York
Henry Grunwald , B.A. 1944; U.S. ambassador; former managing editor of
Time magazine and
editor in chief of
Time, Inc.
Sean Hannity (did not graduate); political commentator
Frank L. Howley , B.S. 1925; brigadier general, commandant of the American sector of Berlin
Jacob Javits , B.A. 1923; US Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981
Samuel Levy , B.A. 1894; Manhattan Borough President
Martha Roby , B.A. 1998; US Congresswoman
Albert del Rosario , B.S. 1960; former Philippine ambassador to the US and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary
Howard Cosell , Class of 1938
Science and technology
Balamurali Ambati , B.A. 1991; youngest person ever to become a physician
Evelyn Berezin , B.S. 1951; computer engineer
Eugene Braunwald , B.A. 1949; cardiologist
Humayun Chaudhry , B.A., 1986; president and CEO,
Federation of State Medical Boards
Avery Fisher , B.S. 1929; inventor of the
transistorized
amplifier and the first
stereo
radio -
phonograph , noted
philanthropist
Neil Garg , B.S. 2000; Professor of Chemistry at
University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Harrison , B.S. 2005; computer scientist and entrepreneur, assistant professor at
Carnegie Mellon University
Henry Sherwood Lawrence , B.A. 1938; immunologist
Amit M. Shelat, B.A. 1997; Vice Chairman of the New York State Board for Medicine,
New York State Education Department
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Alfred Vail , B.A. 1836; inventor
Ari M. Wachsman , B.A. 2002; neurologist and neurointensivist, Assistant Professor at
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
George Wald , B.A. 1927; recipient of 1967
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sports
Marv Albert , B.A. 1965; sportscaster
Howard Cann , B.A. 1920; 1968 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee
Howard Cosell , B.A. 1938; sportscaster
Carol Heiss , B.A. 1961; gold medal winner, Olympic Winter Games 1960
Mika'il Sankofa , B.A. 1988; fencer, Olympic Gold Medalist
Dolph Schayes , B.S. 1948,
NBA champion (
1955 ), 12×
NBA All-Star ,
Hall of Fame Inductee
Ed Smith , B.A. 1934; model for
Heisman Trophy
George Spitz , B.A. 1934; world record high jumper
Colin Cassady , B.S.; WWE wrestler
References
External links
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