Hunter College

Hunter College
Former names
Female Normal and High School (1870–1888)
Normal College of the City of New York (1888–1914)[1]
MottoMihi cura futuri (Latin)
Motto in English
"The care of the future is mine"
TypePublic university
Established1870; 154 years ago (1870)
Parent institution
City University of New York
AccreditationMSCHE
Endowment$135.8 million[2]
PresidentNancy Cantor
ProvostManoj Pardasani (interim)
Undergraduates16,550
Postgraduates6,368
Location
New York City
,
United States

40°46′07″N 73°57′53″W / 40.768538°N 73.964741°W / 40.768538; -73.964741
CampusLarge city
NewspaperThe Hunter Envoy
ColorsPurple and gold[3]
NicknameHawks
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – CUNYAC
Websitehunter.cuny.edu

Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also administers Hunter College High School and Hunter College Elementary School.[4]

Hunter was founded in 1870 as a women's college; it first admitted male freshmen in 1946.[5] The main campus has been located on Park Avenue since 1873. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated Franklin Delano Roosevelt's and her former townhouse to the college; the building was reopened in 2010 as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.[6] The institution has a 57% undergraduate graduation rate within six years.[7]

  1. ^ "Hunter College". jwa.org. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
  2. ^ "CUNY – Hunter College". US News.
  3. ^ "Visual Identity Standards Reference Guide" (PDF). Hunter College, City University of New York. 2016. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 16, 2017. Hunter College has two official colors: purple (Hunter [P]urple) PMS 267 [#5f259f] and yellow (Hunter Gold) PMS 123 [#ffc72a].
  4. ^ "Office of the President – Hunter College". Hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  5. ^ Gray, Christopher (April 20, 2008). "The Vestige of What Might Have Been". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "Mission". Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  7. ^ "City University of New York: Hunter College | The College Board". bigfuture.collegeboard.org. Retrieved June 30, 2020.