The City College of New York (CCNY) is the founding college of CUNY, established in 1847 as the Free Academy of New York — the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. CCNY enrolls about 12,500 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students on its 36-acre Hamilton Heights campus in Upper Manhattan. The Gothic-revival campus features stunning architecture including Shepard Hall (modeled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge). CCNY is best known for engineering (the Grove School of Engineering), architecture (the Spitzer School), the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Educ…
