Queens College, City University of New York
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Queens College is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. It was established in 1937 to offer a strong liberal arts education to the residents of Queens. Queens College has grown into a campus of 16,604 including 12,346 undergraduates and 4,647 graduate students. While it is widely known as a liberal arts college, Queens College is, in fact, a comprehensive college offering undergraduate and some graduate degrees at the master's level. Students from 120 different countries speaking 66 different languages are enrolled at the school, located in scenic Flushing, New York.
The Princeton Review ranked Queens eighth in the United States, in its 2006 edition of "America's Best Value Colleges."[link] The college is ranked 50th among Northern Universities-Master's by U.S. News and World Report (tied with Baruch College, another CUNY college).[link]
Notable alumni
- Joy Behar - comedienne, and co-host of The View
- Hon. Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist.
- Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student
- Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor
- Stanley Milgram - psychologist
- Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer
- Donna Orender - WNBA president
- Ray Romano - actor, comedian
- Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
- Paul Simon - musician, Simon and Garfunkel
- Jon Favreau - actor and director
- Dov Hikind - Member of the New York State Assembly
- Alan Hevesi - New York State Comptroller
- Gary Ackerman - New York State Congressman (D) 5th District
- Nathan Leventhal - Former President Lincoln Center
- Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
- Dorothy Rabinowitz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
- Mary Murphy - Emmy Award-winning TV Anchor
- Joseph Crowley - (D NY) Congressman 7th District
- Charles Wang - Founder of Computer Associates
- Nathan Gilkarov - Economist, Philosopher
- Barbara Bach - Actress, Wife of Ringo Starr
- Michael Savage - Radio Talk Show Personality
- Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
- Carole King - Songwriter and Recording Artist
External links
- [Official Queens College]
- [The Knight News] (Queens College newspaper)
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