New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is one of the largest private non-profit institutions of American higher education.^[1][13][14] University rankings compiled by U.S. News and World Report, Times Higher Education and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all ranks NYU among the 34 most reputable universities in the world.^[15][16][17] NYU is organized into more than twenty schools, colleges, and institutes,^[13] located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. NYU's main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattanwith institutes and centers on the Upper East Side, academic buildings and dorms down on Wall Street, and the Brooklyn campus located at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.^[18] The University also established NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai and maintains 11 other Global Academic Centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C.
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NYU was chosen to the Association of American Universities in 1950.[20] NYU checks thirty-six Nobel Prize victors, four Abel Prize champs, three Turing Award victors, more than thirty National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities beneficiaries, more than thirty Pulitzer Prize champs, more than thirty Academy Award champs, and in addition a few Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, Draper Prize and Fields Medal champs, and many Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award champs among its workforce and graduated class. NYU additionally has numerous MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship holders and also many National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences individuals, and a plenty of individuals from the United States Congress and heads of condition of nations everywhere throughout the world, among its at various times graduates and workforce. The graduated class of NYU are among the wealthiest on the planet, and incorporate seventeen living very rich people.


NYU's games groups are known as the Violets, the hues being the trademarked shade "NYU Violet" and white; the school mascot is the catamount. All brandishing groups take an interest in the NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic Association.


Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, announced his expectation to set up "in this huge and quickly developing city ... an arrangement of levelheaded and commonsense instruction fitting for all and charitably opened to all".[1] A three-day long "artistic and exploratory tradition" held in City Hall in 1830 and went to by more than 100 agents wrangled about the terms of an arrangement for another college. These New Yorkers trusted the city required a college intended for young fellows who might be conceded based upon legitimacy as opposed to inheritance, status, or social class. On April 18, 1831, a foundation was built up, with the backing of a gathering of unmistakable New York City occupants from the city's landed class of dealers, brokers, and traders.[25] Albert Gallatin was chosen as the establishment's first president.[26] On April 21, 1831, the new organization got its sanction and was joined as the University of the City of New York by the New York State Legislature; more seasoned reports frequently allude to it by that name. The college has been prominently known as New York University since its starting and was formally renamed New York University in 1896.[26] In 1832, NYU held its first classes in leased rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, arranged close City Hall.[26] In 1835, the School of Law, NYU's first expert school, was built up. Despite the fact that the stimulus to establish another school was mostly a response by fervent Presbyterians to what they saw as the Episcopalianism of Columbia College,[27] NYU was made non-denominational, not at all like numerous American universities at the time