Official Name
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
President
Dr. Christoph M. Kimmich, the College's eighth president, was appointed in February 2000.
Location
2900 Bedford Avenue at Avenue H in the Midwood section of Brooklyn
Accreditation
Brooklyn College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, telephone: 215.662.5606), the Council on Education for Public Health, the American Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology, and the American Dietetic Association. The School of Education received National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education endorsement for its initial and advanced teacher preparation programs and will be visited in spring 2005. Brooklyn College's academic programs are registered by the New York State Department of Education. Documentation is available in the Office of the Provost, 3137 Boylan Hall.
Organization Membership
Brooklyn College is a member of the American Association for Higher Education, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and the Council for Opportunity in Education.
Mission Statement
Brooklyn College’s mission statement embodies the College’s values, mirrors its characteristics, and affirms its basic purposes:
Brooklyn College provides a superior education in the arts and sciences. Its students will become independent and critical thinkers, skilled communicators, culturally and scientifically literate, and oriented to innovation. Its graduates will be marked by a sense of personal and social responsibility, the knowledge and talents to live in a globally interdependent world, and the confidence to assume leadership roles.
Brooklyn College encourages and supports its faculty to thrive as high-achieving teacher-scholars, as proficient in their research as in their mentorship of students. It esteems the loyalty and commitment of its staff.
Together, the Brooklyn College faculty, students, and staff reach out to, work with, and serve their communities.
Facilities
The College comprises thirteen buildings on a twenty-six-acre, tree-lined campus. The Princeton Review consistently cites the College’s “gorgeous” yet still urban campus as one of its major draws.
In keeping with a commitment to provide its students with a superior educational experience, Brooklyn College embarked, in 2002, on a major capital improvement program. In that year it completed an extensive renovation and expansion of the Brooklyn College Library, now the technologically most advanced in the City University of New York (CUNY) system.
Holdings in the library include:
- 1.3 million volumes
- 4,200 print journals
- 25,000 audiovisual units
- 15,000 electronic subscriptions and works of reference
- Several thousand electronic books
The library’s Woody Tanger Auditorium, opened in 2003, is a state-of-the-art facility capable of supporting video-conferencing and interactive meetings and workshops; a multimedia distribution system allows staff to broadcast high-quality streaming video throughout the building. The library also houses four computerized classrooms and a Faculty Training and Development Laboratory. The Morton and Angela Topfer Library Café is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for word processing, Internet access, data management, and quiet study.
The West Quad Project, begun in 2003, is the second phase of the capital improvement program. Due to be completed in 2008, it will create a second verdant quadrangle and a new campus building that will house student services and state-of-the-art physical education and athletic facilities under one roof. Rafael Viñoly, the West Quad Project's celebrated architect (recently a finalist for the redesign of the World Trade Center site) has strong ties both to Brooklyn and to the City University of New York; his first major project in the United States was for CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and one of his recent museum projects was the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
Plans are also under way for the construction on the campus of a $50-million center for the performing arts, which will serve the Conservatory of Music, the Department of Theater, and related disciplines.
Degrees
Brooklyn College offers more than seventy undergraduate and more than sixty graduate majors, as well as advanced certificates and programs, in the humanities, sciences, performing arts, social sciences, education, and preprofessional and professional studies.
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Bachelor of Music
- Master of Arts
- Master of Science
- Master of Science in Education
- Master of Fine Arts
- Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Interactive Media Arts
- Master of Music
- Master of Public Health
- Master of Mental Health Counseling
The College also offers Ph.D.-level courses through the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center; a number of doctoral courses are also offered at Brooklyn College.
The College's nationally acclaimed Core Curriculum, instituted in 1981, is a mandatory set of eleven interrelated courses, plus foreign language study, for all undergraduates. The core provides solid background in the arts and sciences, and a shared intellectual foundation for more specialized study.
Brooklyn College received a four-star ranking for its academics in the 2000 Fiske Guide to Colleges, and was ranked as one of "America's Best Colleges 2001" by U.S. News & World Report. The College received a prestigious 2001 Educators of Distinction Award from Saludos Hispanos in recognition of its commitment to higher education success for Hispanics.
The On-Course Advantage (TOCA) program, an accelerated program for academically strong students who wish to earn their college degree in four years or less, received accolades from Governor Pataki in his 2003 State of the State address.
Divisions
Brooklyn College has three academic divisions: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of General Studies, and the Division of Graduate Studies.
Student Enrollment
Total fall 2007 enrollment was 16,087. There were 12,495 undergraduates and 3,592 graduates.
Student Diversity
Brooklyn College is a microcosm of the ethnically rich borough of Brooklyn it serves, as well as a mirror of the wide diversity in New York City itself. A vibrant, intellectually engaged community, our student body is comprised of individuals from more than one hundred nations, speaking some ninety-five languages, who share in the educational home our ample campus provides. Brooklyn College attracts bright, ambitious individuals, and is particularly well suited to those who are eager to explore a wide range of academic disciplines.
Student Achievements and Activities
Brooklyn College students continue to receive recognition for their scholarly achievements.
Recent award winners include Aaron Gavin and Nicole Lebenson, (Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, ‘07); Susan Bard, Liliya Gershengoren, Jewel Liao, & Becky Naoulou (Jonas E. Salk Scholarship,’03, ’07, ’07, & ‘07); Sonia Valentin & Linda Dwyer ( Women’s Forum Educational Fund Award, ’07); Rosemary Taveras & Stephanie Medrano (Young Latinas Leadership Institute Scholarship, ’06); Moses Feaster (National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, ’06); Ryan Merola (Harry S. Truman Fellowship, New York City Urban Fellows, ’06 & ’07); Pangeline Edwards (Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, ’06); David Kovacs, Matthew McLean, & Tyler Gore, (Fulbright Scholarship, ’00, ’00, & ‘07) ; Mamunur Rahman & Ayomide Bomide (Gates Millennium Scholarship, ‘05); Eugene Schenderov (Rhodes Scholar and National Institutes of Health Graduate Fellowship ‘05); Marcia DeVoe (Beinecke Scholarship, ‘00); Patricia Farrell (Clark Fellowship, ’01).
There are more than 140 academic, special interest, and social clubs at Brooklyn College; three student newspapers; and a student-run radio station, BCR, located at 1090 AM. The College participates in NCAA Division III athletics, and offers an exciting and energetic intramurals sports program. Meet Brooklyn College students.
The faculty of
Prominent faculty members include: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edwin Burrows; Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Michael Cunningham; National Book Award-winning author Gloria Naylor; ASCAP Award–winning composer Tania León; Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Moses; MacArthur Foundation fellow documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson; Computer theorist Rohit Parikh; Audiologist Shlomo Silman; Obie Award–winning playwright Mac Wellman. More about our faculty.
Grants
In 2005 - 06 Brooklyn College received awards totaling $12,916,018 to support research, training, program development, and institutional improvement. Among the many federal agencies, corporations, and private foundations that have contributed support to the College are the United States Department of Education, the United States Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Service, the Carnegie Corporation, the Lilly Endowment, the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Department of Education, and the Reed and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundations.
Budget
The 2007-2008 tax levy operating budget is $101,210,300 million.
Endowment
The Brooklyn College Foundation has over $57 million under investment.
Undergraduate Tuition
For New York State residents, $2,000 a semester for full-time students, $170 per credit for part-time students, and $250 per credit for nondegree resident students. For nonresidents, $360 per credit for full-time and part-time students, and $530 per credit for nondegree students.
Graduate Tuition
For New York State residents, $3,200 a semester for full-time students and $270 per credit for part-time students. Maintenance of matriculation for resident full-time students is $750. For nonresidents, $500 per credit for full-time and part-time students, and $1,250 for maintenance of matriculation.
Alumni
Brooklyn College alumni make a difference in a wide variety of fields, including law, the sciences, the arts, and politics—three candidates for president of the United States have been Brooklyn College graduates. More about our alumni.
