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The City College of New York’s long tradition of quality, affordability and outstanding student outcomes continues to gain national recognition. In its 2020 Best Colleges for Your Money rankings, Money Magazine lists CCNY in the top 15%. And it’s only one of two schools in New York State on the University Headquarters rankings of most affordable four-year colleges and universities by State. CCNY ranked #113 out of 739 four-year schools that met Money’s benchmark for successfully combining quality and affordability. MIT, Stanford University and Princeton ranked first, second and third, in that

Michelle Caines and Sheila Castillo bring to three the number of City College of New York undergraduates at its Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) awarded $10,000 Women’s Forum Education Fund fellowships in 2020. The awards are given to high-potential women, age 35 and over, whose education and lives have been disrupted by extreme adversity. They recognize extraordinary and often heroic efforts in overcoming adversity in restructuring lives for success. Sandra Serrano, a senior pursuing a BA degree with a concentration in urban studies and public

A constant presence on annual rankings of the world’s top schools, The City College of New York once again makes the list of The Princeton Review’s best colleges in the Northeast. CCNY is also listed among the best 1,000 schools globally in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The Princeton Review’s “ 2021 Best Colleges: Region by Region” website feature recognizes CCNY as one of the 224 best colleges in the Northeast. The website feature salutes a total of 655 colleges that The Princeton Review recommends over five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and

Grace McGrath of the Macaulay Honors College program at The City College of New York is one of 10 undergraduates named 2020 Palantir Women In Technology Scholars. The highly competitive program created by software manufacturer Palantir is open to students in U.S., Canadian and Mexican institutions majoring in or planning to major in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) fields. The Palantir Women in Technology Scholarship was incepted in 2010 to celebrate and support women who are beginning careers in technology. It seeks to encourage women to pursue computer science, engineering

Harold Gamarro, a standout graduate of the Grove School of Engineering, is the second member of City College of New York’s Class of 2020 to receive a GEM Fellowship. The highly competitive national honor funds master's and PhDs in engineering for underrepresented students of exceptional quality who intend to work in industry. Each year, GEM identifies and recruits more than 1,000 undergraduate students, graduate students, and working professionals for admission to advanced degree programs at the nation’s top universities. The National GEM Consortium’s combination of graduate study and field

The City College of New York's Avery Maillet (New York, N.Y.) has been recognized by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) as an All-Academic Athlete for 2020. This marks the second straight year in which Maillet earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors. Read Full Article

Recent City College of New York graduates Gabrielle Duchaussee (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) and Nicole Polanco (West Haverstraw, N.Y.) are among the record 605 nominees for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, which were announced on Tuesday. They were nominated after distinguishing themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers. Read Full Article

A new report from the Brookings Institution ranks The City College of New York third among four-year schools with the greatest success in lifting low-income students into the middle class. Five other CUNY senior colleges are ranked in the top 10. The report is the latest confirmation of research over the past three years establishing City College and CUNY as the nation’s leading engines of social and economic mobility. Established in 1847 as the first tuition-free college in the United States, CCNY is the founding institution of CUNY. CCNY has been ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity

In a historic Virtual Salute, the first in its 173-year legacy, City College of New York’s Class of 2020 was charged by the institution’s oldest known living alumnus, centenarian Benjamin B. Ferencz, former U.S. vice president Joe Biden and other speakers to help shape a post-COVID-19 world. A distinguished 1940 alumnus and the last surviving prosecutor from the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, Mr. Ferencz passed the baton, after a life-long activism for human rights and the rule of law, to City College’s newest graduates following in his footsteps 80 years later. “How do you get people to accept

Sandra Serrano is the latest undergraduate from The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) awarded a $10,000 Women’s Forum Education Fund fellowship. The awards are given to high-potential women, age 35 and over, whose education and lives have been disrupted by extreme adversity. They recognize extraordinary and often heroic efforts in overcoming adversity in restructuring lives for success. A senior pursuing a BA degree with a concentration in urban studies and public administration, Serrano is the third CWE student in a row