New York University (NYU)

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. University rankings compiled by U.S. News and World Report, Times Higher Education and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU among the top 34 universities in the world. NYU is organized into more than twenty schools, colleges, and institutes, located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.

NYU's main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan with 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. 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.

New York University comprises the following schools and colleges:

• Arts & Science
• College of Arts and Science
• Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Liberal Studies
• Center for Urban Science and Progress
• College of Dentistry
• College of Global Public Health
• Rory Meyers College of Nursing
• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Gallatin School of Individualized Study
• Institute of Fine Arts
• Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business
• NYU Abu Dhabi
• NYU Shanghai
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
• Silver School of Social Work
• School of Law
• School of Medicine
• School of Professional Studies
• Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
• Tandon School of Engineering
• Tisch School of the Arts

Arts and Science is currently NYU's largest academic division. It has three subdivisions: the College of Arts and Science, the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Liberal Studies program. The College of Arts and Science and Liberal Studies program are undergraduate divisions, and the former has existed since the founding of NYU.

NYU manages one of the largest annual collegiate research budgets of any university in the United States. In 2014, NYU received $524 million in research grants from the National Science Foundation alone.