City University of New York Graduate Center
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| Motto | The Life of the Mind in the Heart of the City |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1961 |
| Budget | $120.2 million (2015) |
| President | Chase F. Robinson |
| Provost | Joy Connolly |
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Academic staff
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1,840 (2015) |
| Postgraduates | 4,071 (2015) |
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New York City, New York, United States 40°44′55″N 73°59′01″W / 40.74852°N 73.98361°WCoordinates: 40°44′55″N 73°59′01″W / 40.74852°N 73.98361°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue and Black |
| Affiliations | City University of New York |
| Website | www |
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The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is a public American research college based in New York City, and is the principal doctoral-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The school is situated in a nine-story landmark building at 365 Fifth Avenue at the corner of 34th Street in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, across the corner from the Empire State Building. The Graduate Center has 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes. A core faculty of approximately 140 is supplemented by over 1,700 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.
Graduate Center faculty include recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Science, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Fellowship, the Schock Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Wolf Prize, Grammy Awards, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
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