Education
Primary and secondary education
The New York City
Public Schools system, managed by the New York City
Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the United States,
serving about 1.1 million students in more than 1,700 separate primary and secondary
schools.
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The city's public school system includes nine specialized high schools to
serve academically and artistically gifted students. The
city government pays
the Pelham Public Schools to educate a very small, detached section of the Bronx.
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The New York City Charter School Center assists the setup of new charter
schools.
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There are approximately 900 additional privately run secular
and religious
schools in the city.
Higher education and research
More than 600,000 students are enrolled in New York City's more than 120 higher
education
institutions, the highest number of any city in the world, with more
than half a
million in the City University of New York (CUNY) system alone as of 2020, including
both degree and professional programs.
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According to Academic Ranking of World
Universities, New York City has, on average, the best higher education institutions of
any global city.
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The public CUNY system is one of the largest universities in the nation, comprising 25
institutions across all five boroughs: senior colleges, community colleges, and other
graduate/professional schools. The public State University of New York (SUNY)
system includes campuses in New York City, including: Downstate
Health Sciences
University, Fashion Institute of
Technology, Maritime College, and the College of
Optometry.
New York City is home to such notable private universities as Barnard
College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Fordham University, New York
University, New York Institute of Technology, Rockefeller University, and Yeshiva
University; several of these universities are ranked among the top universities in the
world.
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The city also hosts other smaller private colleges and universities, including many
religious and special-purpose institutions, such as: Pace University, St. John's
University, The Juilliard School, Manhattan College, Adelphi University -
Manhattan, Mercy College (New York), The College of Mount Saint Vincent, Parsons
School of Design, The
New School, Pratt Institute, New York Film Academy, The
School of Visual Arts, The King's College, Marymount Manhattan College, and Wagner
College.
Much of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the life sciences. In
2019, the New York metropolitan area ranked first on the list of cities and metropolitan
areas by share of published articles in life sciences.
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New York City has the most
postgraduate life sciences degrees awarded annually in the United States, with
127 Nobel laureates having roots in local institutions as of 2005;
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while in 2012,
43,523 licensed physicians were practicing in New York City.
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Major biomedical research institutions include Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer
Center, Rockefeller University, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Albert Einstein
College of
Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Weill Cornell Medical
College, being joined by the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology venture on Roosevelt Island. The graduates of SUNY Maritime College in
the Bronx earned the highest average annual salary of any university graduates in the
United States, $144,000 as of 2017.