Brooklyn College

For the former Brooklyn Technical College in Great Barr, Birmingham, England, now the James Watt campus, see Birmingham Metropolitan College.
Brooklyn College
MottoLatin: Nil sine magno labore
Motto in English
Nothing without great effort[1]
TypePublic university
Established1930; 94 years ago (1930)
Parent institution
City University of New York
Endowment$98.0 million (2019)[2]
Budget$123.96 million (2021)[1]
PresidentMichelle Anderson
ProvostApril Bedford, Interim
Academic staff
534 full-time,
878 part-time (2018)[1]
Students14,195[3] (Fall 2022)
Undergraduates14,970 (2019)[1]
Postgraduates2,841 (2019)[1]
Location
Brooklyn, New York City
,
New York
,
United States

40°37′52″N 73°57′9″W / 40.63111°N 73.95250°W / 40.63111; -73.95250
CampusUrban, 35 acres (14 ha)[1]
Colors    Maroon, gold, & grey[4]
NicknameBulldogs
Sporting affiliations
MascotBuster the Bulldog
Websitewww.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and as of 2019 enrolls over 17,000 undergraduate and over 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn.

New York City's first public coeducational liberal arts college, the college was formed in 1930 by the merger of the Brooklyn branches of Hunter College (centered in Manhattan), then a women's college, and of the City College of New York (also Manhattan), then a men's college, both established in 1926. Once tuition-free, the city's 1975 fiscal crisis ended the free tuition policy. The college also consolidated to its main campus.

Prominent alumni of Brooklyn College include US senators, federal judges, US financial chairmen, Olympians, CEOs, and recipients of Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and Nobel Prizes.

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Fast Facts". CUNY – Brooklyn College. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "Overview of CUNY—Brooklyn College"
  3. ^ "College Navigator - CUNY Brooklyn College". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
  4. ^ "Visual Identity System" (PDF). Brooklyn College. City University of New York. 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.