City University of New York

The City University of New York, known as CUNY, is the public university system of New York City and the largest urban university system in the United States. It has 26 campuses, made up of eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and eight professional institutions, and it enrolls more than 275,000 students. Its oldest constituent college, the City College of New York, was founded in 1847 and became the first free public institution of higher learning in the country. State legislation created CUNY in 1961 by joining existing institutions with a new graduate school.