14 Facts About Manhattan College

Manhattan College is a private, Roman Catholic, liberal arts university in the Bronx in New York City.

Manhattan College offers undergraduate programs in the arts, business, education, health, engineering, and science.

Manhattan College was founded as the Academy of the Holy Infancy in 1853 by five French De La Salle Christian Brothers in a small building on Canal Street.

Originally exclusive to men, Manhattan College established a cooperative program with the College of Mount Saint Vincent after the pair became coeducational in 1973 and 1974, respectively.

Manhattan College occupies a relatively compact campus divided into a north and south campus in the residential Riverdale section of the Bronx.

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Manhattan College offers degrees in six undergraduate schools: the School of Liberal Arts, the O'Malley School of Business, the School of Education and Health, the School of Engineering, the School of Science, and the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Manhattan College contains chapters of various honor societies as Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Epsilon, a national mathematics honor society.

Manhattan College is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference .

In 1973, Manhattan College won the Indoor NCAA Championship along with setting a new world record in the distance medley relay.

Manhattan College still remains a power house on the east coast as one of the top programs around, under the direction of Dan Mecca.

College annually played the New York Giants in the late 1880s and into the 1890s at the Polo Grounds and Manhattan is credited by the Baseball Hall of Fame with the practice of the "seventh inning stretch" spreading from there into major league baseball.

Luis Castro, a Manhattan College alumnus, was the first Latin American-born player to play in Major League Baseball in the United States.

In 1936 and 1938, Manhattan College was one of two teams competing in the regatta, the other being Rutgers, on the Harlem River.

Manhattan College alumni are distinguishing themselves in the fields of academics, arts, engineering, literature, business, entertainment, government, and law.