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With 37% of its more than 18,000 students identifying as Latinx/a/o, The City College of New York remains on The Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine’s annual Top 100 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics list. Using NCES/IPEDS Department of Education data, Hispanic Outlook ranks City College highly in three categories: • 2019-2020 total Bachelor's degree, #69; • 2019-2020 total Master's degree, #81; • 2019-2020 total Enrollment 4-year Schools, #91. “Every year, the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education features Top 100 lists to chart the national progress of Hispanics in higher education

The City College of New York’s Master of Landscape Architecture Program clinched the International Landscape School’s Prize at the 11th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, Spain. Work by Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture students was submitted to represent the program's approach to the Biennial's theme, “Climate Change Again.” The award was delayed by Covid, but the school's work was presented as finalists at the Escola Tèchnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona last year. The winning projects were by Anna Speidel ’19, Hana Georg ’19, Anna McKeigue

Four computer science undergraduate students and one graduate student took The City College of New York to third place in the Overhead Imagery Hackathon (OIH). The international competition entailed utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) methods to classify different types of building damage caused by natural disasters, such as hurricane, flood, earthquake and fire. Dubbed CCNY + AFOSR to acknowledge the presence of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Erik Blasch as an advisor, the team comprised graduate student Bilal Abdulrahman; and undergraduates Billy

The City College of New York ranks #1 for Best Value among the top 250 U.S. schools, according to the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Best College Rankings. The publications determined this by dividing each institution’s overall score by its net price. City College, #212 overall on the rankings out of 796 colleges and universities, was followed in second place by another CUNY school, Baruch College, for value. CCNY also ranked #6 for Environment, a category that reflects four elements that are fortes for CCNY, which has a student body representing more than 150 nationalities

Ricardo Polanco, an Honors student at The City College of New York majoring in civil engineering, is one of 24 Americans selected as Minority Student Fellows by the Washington, D.C.-based Transportation Research Board (TRB), a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Born in Manhattan of Dominican immigrant parents, Polanco is the only Fellow from the East Coast north of Maryland State. A junior, he’s one of 15 undergraduate and nine graduate students in TRB’s Class of 2022. As a TRB Fellow, Polanco and his peers will research and explore ideas and

Scoring highly in several categories, The City College of New York is #10 nationally for social mobility in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings published today. City College places highly in six other categories including #26 for economic diversity and #29 for campus ethnic diversity. Overall, CCNY is ranked #148 on the list of Best National Universities, a jump of 28 places from its #176 ranking last year. According to U.S. News & World Report, schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Click here for more

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation and The City College of New York partner for the Blackstone LaunchPad Program, which makes entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills accessible and relevant for all college students to help them build thriving companies and careers. The partnership will expand and strengthen three initiatives already underway through intense mentorship, community engagement and hands-on entrepreneurship programs designed to build upon CCNY’s almost 175-year history. The initiatives will include the Zahn Innovation Center at CCNY (ZIC), the new Center for Innovation in

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends CCNY in the 2022 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 387 Colleges published today by Penguin Random House and retailing at $24.99. Only about 14% of America’s 2,700 four-year colleges are profiled in the book, which is one of The Princeton Review’s most popular publications. The company chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from administrators at hundreds of colleges about

With the beginning of the fall semester in sight, The City College of New York is pleased to announce the second annual “Community Read” project. The project is an effort to pull the entire CCNY community—staff, students, faculty and Harlem partner organizations—together to read and discuss a work that carries significance during these difficult times. A selection committee reviewed dozens of nominated books and chose “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” written by Heather McGhee, former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos. The book

Claire Balani, a master’s in Language and Literacy major at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a 2021–22 Career Development Grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The grant will enable Balani, a Jersey City, New Jersey, resident, to continue her work in refugee youth and adult education. That is her research focus towards fostering refugee integration through language learning. “Thanks to this grant from AAUW, I’m able to continue my journey toward helping others and making a real impact in my career,” said Balani. “Now I’ll be able to complete my