New York City

:This is an article about New York City; see also NYC, New York, New York (disambiguation) and New York.

Education and scientific research

Colleges and universities

New York City is served by the publicly-run City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the United States, which has a number of campuses throughout the five boroughs. The city is also home to a number of other institutions of higher learning, some of national or even international reputation, including Columbia University, New York University, the Juilliard School, and The Cooper Union.

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City University of New York - Columbia University - New York University - Juilliard School - The Cooper Union

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New York City is also a major center of academic medicine. Manhattan contains the campuses of the world-class Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU Medical Center and their medical schools. In the Bronx, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is a major academic center. Jonas Salk, developer of the vaccine for polio, was an intern at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Upper Manhattan. Brooklyn also hosts one of the country's leading urban medical centers: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, an academic medical center, the oldest hospital-based medical school in the United States. Professor Raymond Vahan Damadian, the inventor of the MRI, was part of the faculty from 1967 - 1977 and built the first MRI machine, the Indomnitable, there.

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Rockefeller University - Weill Cornell Medical College - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center - NYU Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University - Jonas Salk - Polio - Mount Sinai Medical Center - SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Raymond Vahan Damadian - MRI - Indomnitable

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Public schools

The city-run New York City Department of Education covers the entire city limits and operates almost all of the city's public schools. One exception is Hunter College High School, which is run by Hunter College and charges no tuition.

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New York City Department of Education - Hunter College High School - Hunter College

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Dedication to the sciences starts early for many New Yorkers, who have the chance to attend such selective specialized high schools as the Bronx High School of Science (which boasts the largest number of graduates who are Nobel Laureates of any high school in the world), and its rivals, Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School. The Brooklyn High School of the Arts is the only high school in the United States with a curriculum in Historic Preservation.

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Bronx High School of Science - Nobel Laureate - Stuyvesant High School - Brooklyn Technical High School - Brooklyn High School of the Arts - United States - Historic Preservation

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See also

• List of colleges and universities in New York City
• :Category:New York City public education