CUNY Graduate Center

Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

Motto	The Life of the Mind in the Heart of the City[1]
Type	Public post-graduate university
Established	1961 (1961)
Academic affiliations	City University of New York
Budget	$134.7 million (2018)[2]
President	Joshua Brumberg
Provost	Steve Everett
Academic staff	1,840 (2015)
Students	3,228 (2024)[3]
Postgraduates	607 (2024) (non-doctoral incl. masters)[4]
Doctoral students	2621 (2024)[5]
Location	New York City , New York , United States 40°44′55″N 73°59′01″W / 40.7485°N 73.9836°W / 40.7485; -73.9836
Campus	Urban, 570,000 sq ft (53,000 m2)[6]
Newspaper	The Advocate
Colors	Blue & black[7]
Website	www.gc.cuny.edu

The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Formed in 1961 as Division of Graduate Studies at City University of New York, it was renamed to Graduate School and University Center in 1969. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, CUNY Graduate Center is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".^[8]

CUNY Graduate Center is located at the B. Altman and Company Building at 365 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It offers 31 doctoral programs, 14 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes. It employs a core faculty of approximately 140, who are supplemented by 1,800 faculty members from CUNY's eleven senior colleges and other New York City's cultural and scientific institutions. As of June 2024, the Graduate Center enrolls 3,228 students, of which 2,621 or 81% are doctoral students.^[9] For the Fall 2023 semester, 17.4% of applicants across all doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center were offered admission.^[10]

The Graduate Center's primary library, named after the American mathematician Mina Rees, is a part of the CUNY network of 31 libraries that together include access to over 6.2 million printed works and over 300,000 e-books. Since 1968, the CUNY Graduate Center has maintained a close relationship with the New York Public Library (NYPL), which gives faculty and students access to NYPL's research collections and other facilities at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.^[11] The GC building also houses the James Gallery, which is an independent exhibition space open to the public, and television studios for NYC Media and CUNY TV.

Its faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center include recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Abel Prize, 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.