Education Manhattan

education in manhattan provided vast number of public , private institutions. public schools in borough operated new york city department of education, largest public school system in united states. charter schools include success academy harlem 1 through 5, success academy upper west, , public prep.

some of best known new york city public high schools located in manhattan, including beacon high school, stuyvesant high school, fiorello h. laguardia high school, high school of fashion industries, eleanor roosevelt high school, nyc lab school, manhattan center science , mathematics, hunter college high school, , high school math, science , engineering @ city college. bard high school college, hybrid school created bard college, serves students around city.

many private preparatory schools situated in manhattan, including upper east side s brearley school, dalton school, browning school, spence school, chapin school, nightingale-bamford school, convent of sacred heart, hewitt school, saint david s school, , loyola school, along upper west side s collegiate school , trinity school. regis high school, on upper east side, all-scholarship catholic high school boys in country. borough home 2 private schools known diverse in nation, manhattan country school , united nations international school. manhattan has official italian american school in u.s., la scuola d italia.

interior of elmer holmes bobst library @ new york university



new york public library main branch @ 42nd street , fifth avenue; built (1897–1911) , replaced croton reservoir; carrère , hastings, architects

based on data 2011–2015 american community survey, 59.9% of manhattan residents on age 25 have bachelor s degree. of 2005, 60% of residents college graduates , 25% had earned advanced degrees, giving manhattan 1 of nation s densest concentrations of highly educated people.

manhattan has various colleges , universities, including columbia university (and affiliate barnard college), cooper union, marymount manhattan college, new york institute of technology, new york university (nyu), juilliard school, pace university, berkeley college, new school, yeshiva university, , campus of fordham university. other schools include bank street college of education, boricua college, jewish theological seminary of america, manhattan school of music, metropolitan college of new york, parsons school of design, school of visual arts, touro college, , union theological seminary. several other private institutions maintain manhattan presence, among them mercy college, st. john s university, college of new rochelle, king s college, , pratt institute. cornell tech developing on roosevelt island.

the city university of new york (cuny), municipal college system of new york city, largest urban university system in united states, serving more 226,000 degree students , equal number of adult, continuing , professional education students. third of college graduates in new york city graduate cuny, institution enrolling half of college students in new york city. cuny senior colleges located in manhattan include: baruch college, city college of new york, hunter college, john jay college of criminal justice, , cuny graduate center (graduate studies , doctorate granting institution). cuny community college located in manhattan borough of manhattan community college. state university of new york represented fashion institute of technology, state university of new york state college of optometry, , stony brook university – manhattan.

manhattan world center training , education in medicine , life sciences. city whole receives second-highest amount of annual funding national institutes of health among u.s. cities, bulk of goes manhattan s research institutions, including memorial sloan-kettering cancer center, rockefeller university, mount sinai school of medicine, columbia university college of physicians , surgeons, weill cornell medical college, , new york university school of medicine.

manhattan served new york public library, has largest collection of public library system in country. 5 units of central library—mid-manhattan library, donnell library center, new york public library performing arts, andrew heiskell braille , talking book library, , science, industry , business library—are located in manhattan. more 35 other branch libraries located in borough.