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The City College of New York is one of The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse’s 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. and also ranked #4 in best value. The best college rankings rate the top 500 universities in the country and was developed in collaboration with WSJ’s research partners College Pulse and Statista. The rankings also include #21 in social mobility, #163 in student experience and #187 in best salaries. City College ranked #225 in the best college category. The ranking aims to guide prospective students across the nation while recognizing the colleges doing an outstanding job in higher

Fairuz Omar Raya, Class of 2027 at The City College of New York, is a member of the third cohort of The New York Times Corps, a talent-mentorship program for undergraduates to develop relationships with and receive career-building advice from Times journalists. Raya, a graduate of Bronx High School of Science, is a political science major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and a journalism minor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. She has interned with the NBCU Academy. At the Times, she has been matched with Jeanna Smialek, who covers the Federal Reserve and

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its inaugural cohort of Social Mobility Lab research grantees. Launched on April 15 with a panel discussion on The How and Why of Social Mobility, the Social Mobility Lab’s mission is to discover new ways to accelerate and expand opportunity for students and the communities they represent. Its approach is to learn more about what is driving social mobility, translate that knowledge into programs and practices to help students move up in life, and to engage the people and communities who can

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York is launching a one-year program to bring new art mural projects to Washington Heights. CUNY DSI aims to create vibrant, visually appealing spaces in areas greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, fostering community pride and contributing to revitalizing the urban environment. The mural project is funded by a grant of nearly $400,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian’s Northern Manhattan Recovery Fund, which was established in 2020 in collaboration with U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) to help the community recover from the

The CCNY STEM Institute’s Summer 2024 semester concluded with a ceremony on Aug. 6, when the graduating students presented a total of 54 projects. The semester’s theme was Researching Optimization of Urban Transportation Environments, known as “R.O.U.T.E.,” a collaboration of CCNY and the New York City Department of Transportation. Two hundred ninety-eight of the 355 participating students (74 middle schoolers and 224 high schoolers) completed the five-week summer program, which offered hands-on activities and immersive learning to those interested in pursuing science, technology, engineering

Pamela L. Laskin, the award-winning poet, children’s book author, and English lecturer at CCNY, is the guest poet at CCNY’s 52nd annual Poetry Festival 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20, in the Aaron Davis Hall’s Marian Anderson Theater. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. It was rescheduled from May 10. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Laskin, who is also the long serving director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, which produces the festival. “Its

Award-winning City College of New York physicist Robert R. Alfano’s supercontinuum discovery has been an enabling technology for diverse novel applications including the detection of cancer using light spectroscopy and laser tissue welding. Now comes a new possibility: producing rain by the manipulation of ions. This has caught the attention of the United Arab Emirates Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science (UAEREP), which sent a three-member delegation, led by director Alya Al Mazroui, to The City College to learn more about Alfano’s research and discuss possible collaborations. UAEREP

The Climate Lighthouse Project, an interdisciplinary venture led by City College of New York atmospheric scientist Jimmy Booth, is the recipient of a three-year $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to help communities bearing the brunt of climate change. The funding is part of a $10 million DoE largesse to 10 innovative Climate Resilience Centers (CRCs) in 10 different states. These university-led research teams will leverage the world class modeling, data and research capabilities from DoE national laboratories customized for their local regions with a focus on climate

Alan M. Hantman, the 10th Architect of the U.S. Capitol, returns to his alma mater on Sept. 19 as The City College of New York’s 2024 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar. His lecture, 5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium, is entitled: “Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol,” which is the title of his latest book. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the lecture, and Hantman will sign copies after his talk. The lecture is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP and for

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends CCNY in the new edition of its annual college guide, The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition, (August 27, 2024, Penguin Random House, $26.99). Only about 15% of America’s 2,600 four-year colleges are profiled in the book. The Princeton Review chose the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also reviews