Graduate Admissions

City College of New York

• 16,150 students
• 70+ graduate and advanced certification programs across 8 graduate schools and divisions
• More than 150 countries represented
• 10 Nobel Laureates
• See City Facts for more stats

City University of New York

• 30,000 graduate students
• 25 colleges and professional schools
• 100 research centers and institutes
• 31 libraries 

Spitzer School of Architecture

• $6,485 tuition per semester for New York State residents (2019-2020)
• $945 per credit for non-residents (2019-2020)
• 1 research center
• 26 full-time faculty
• 40+ adjunct faculty
• At least 1 visiting critic each semester
• 31 studios
• 7 degree programs, including 4 listed within the U.S. government’s official STEM fields list (M Arch I, MS Arch, B Arch, BS)
• 140 graduate students (fall 2019)
• 54% of graduate students receiving financial aid (fall 2017)
• 135,000 square-foot building
• 1 rooftop amphitheater
• 1 café
• 60 foot-high central atrium gallery
• 36,000 volumes in Architecture Library
• 3,000 square-foot fabrication shop and digital fabrication facility with wood-working machines, laser cutters, milling machines, and 3D printers
• 1 Solar Roofpod and Urban Farm
• 13 staff members
• 54 graduate degrees granted (2018)

Fall 2019 New Graduate Students

• 62 new graduate students: 9 in Urban Design, 11 in Landscape Architecture, and 42 in Architecture.
• 20 different countries represented; United States, Ecuador, Russia, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Brazil, India, Mexico, Turkey, Iran, Canada, Honduras, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Albania, Colombia, Korea, St. Lucia, and Hong Kong.
• Average age: 28 years old; age range: 37 years
• 34 women, 28 men