38 Facts About NYU

NYU receives the most applications of any private institution in the United States and admission is considered highly selective.

In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall.

NYU had a desire to follow New York City's development further uptown.

NYU's move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken.

In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities.

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The university recently announced plans for NYU's Call to Action, a new initiative to ask alumni and donors to support financial aid for students at NYU.

NYU is the 19th wealthiest university in America with $5.

Since the late 1970s, the central part of NYU has been its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Until 2007, NYU had held its commencement ceremonies in Washington Square Park, but because of renovations to Washington Square moved the 2008 ceremonies to the original Yankee Stadium and all subsequent ones to the current Yankee Stadium.

On its Washington Square campus, NYU operates theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the Tisch School of the Arts as well as the university's music conservatory, which is within the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

The largest performance accommodations at NYU are the Skirball Center for Performing Arts at 566 LaGuardia Place, just south of Washington Square South, and the Eisner-Lubin Auditorium in the Kimmel Center.

NYU has international houses meant to foster the study of particular cultures and languages on its Washington Square campus, including the Deutsches Haus, La Maison Francaise, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo, the Glucksman Ireland House, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, the Hagop Kevorkian Center, an Africa House, and a China House.

Quickly following this announcement, NYU announced in 2017 that it would invest over $500 million in the coming years to renovate and expand its Brooklyn campus, including 370 Jay Street, which opened in December 2017.

In Sterling Forest, near Tuxedo, NYU has a research facility that contains various institutes, in particular the Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine.

NYU has a host of foreign facilities used for study away programs, referred to as Global Academic Centers.

In spring 2014, NYU Paris moved to a new campus, formerly occupied by the Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, in the student area of the Quartier Latin, where NYU Law set up an EU Regulatory Policy Clinic in partnership with HEC Paris taught by Alberto Alemanno and Vincent Chauvet.

In 2011, NYU announced plans to open another portal campus, NYU Shanghai, for the fall semester of 2013.

Since late summer of 2014, NYU Shanghai has been based in Pudong, Shanghai, at 1555 Century Ave.

NYU's subsequently announced her intention to commence legal proceedings against NYU alleging wrongful termination and defamation.

NYU has made the greening of its campus a large priority.

For example, NYU has been the largest university purchaser of wind energy in the U S since 2009.

NYU received a grade of "B" on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

Expansion started in earnest in 2017 with the groundbreaking of 181 Mercer Street, a new multi-purpose building that will act as the flagship athletic facility for NYU, while accompanying a 350-bed Residence Hall, 58 general purpose classrooms and a 350-seat theater.

NYU, citing a report by the Institute of International Education, asserts that it has sent more students abroad and brought more international students in than any other university for five continuous years.

NYU is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and research expenditures totaled $917.

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NYU was granted 90 patents in 2014, the 19th most of any institution in the world.

Globally, NYU is ranked 23 in the Center for World University Rankings, 25th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, 26th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 35th in the QS World University Rankings.

Additionally, NYU is ranked 26th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings Reputation Rankings.

NYU is globally ranked 11th for psychology by the QS World University Ranking.

NYU is ranked 1st for New Ivies by college resource guide Unigo.

NYU is consistently ranked as a "Top 10 Dream College" for both parents and students according to The Princeton Review.

Alongside Stanford University, Harvard College, Princeton University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NYU is one of few universities to regularly appear in the top 10 list for both parents and students.

Globally, NYU is ranked 7th by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for producing alumni who are millionaires, 5th among universities with the highest number of alumni worth $30 million or more, and 4th by Wealth-X for producing ultra high net-worth and billionaire alumni.

NYU has over 450 student clubs and organizations on campus.

NYU has qualified for the National Championship Tournament for 10 consecutive seasons and placed in the top 10 during each of those years.

NYU is home to a number of student-run a cappella groups, several of which compete regularly at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella .

NYU students compete in club and intramural sports, including badminton, baseball, basketball, crew, cycling, equestrianism, ice hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, rugby, softball, squash, tennis, triathlon, and ultimate.

NYU is currently in the process of building a new billion dollar flagship athletic facility known as 181 Mercer Street.