New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research college situated in New York City. Established in 1831, NYU is one of the biggest private non-benefit foundations of American advanced education. NYU's primary grounds is situated at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan with foundations and focuses on the Upper East Side, scholarly structures and quarters down on Wall Street, and the Brooklyn grounds situated at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The University additionally settled NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai and keeps up 11 other Global Academic Centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. 

NYU was chosen to the Association of American Universities in 1950. NYU tallies thirty-six Nobel Prize victors, four Abel Prize champs, three Turing Award victors, more than thirty National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities beneficiaries, more than thirty Pulitzer Prize victors, more than thirty Academy Award champs, and in addition a few Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, Draper Prize and Fields Medal champs, and many Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award victors among its personnel and graduated class. NYU likewise has numerous MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship holders and also several National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences individuals, and a plenty of individuals from the United States Congress and heads of condition of nations everywhere throughout the world, among its over a significant time span graduates and personnel. NYU has the most Oscar victors of any college. The graduated class of NYU are amongst the wealthiest on the planet, and incorporate seventeen living extremely rich people. 

NYU is composed into more than twenty schools, universities, and establishments, situated in six focuses all through Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. As indicated by the Institute of International Education, NYU sends a bigger number of understudies to concentrate abroad than whatever other US school or college, and the College Board reports more online looks by global understudies for "NYU" than for some other college.

History

Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, pronounced his goal to build up "in this huge and quickly developing city ... an arrangement of judicious and reasonable training fitting for all and benevolently opened to all". A three-day long "artistic and exploratory tradition" held in City Hall in 1830 and went to by more than 100 agents faced off regarding the terms of an arrangement for another college. These New Yorkers trusted the city required a college intended for young fellows who might be conceded based upon legitimacy as opposed to bequest, status, or social class. On April 18, 1831, an organization was set up, with the backing of a gathering of unmistakable New York City inhabitants from the city's landed class of shippers, investors, and dealers. Albert Gallatin was chosen as the organization's first president. On April 21, 1831, the new foundation got its sanction and was joined as the University of the City of New York by the New York State Legislature; more seasoned archives regularly allude to it by that name. The college has been famously known as New York University since its starting and was authoritatively renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in leased rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, arranged close City Hall. In 1835, the School of Law, NYU's first expert school, was set up. In spite of the fact that the driving force to establish another school was incompletely a response by outreaching Presbyterians to what they saw as the Episcopalianism of Columbia College, NYU was made non-denominational, not at all like numerous American universities at the time.

Campus

New York Campus

A large portion of NYU's structures in Manhattan are situated over an around 230-section of land (930,000 m2) territory limited by Houston Street toward the south, Broadway toward the east, fourteenth Street toward the north, and Sixth (Avenue of the Americas) toward the west. The center of NYU comprises of structures that encompass Washington Square Park. 

With around 11,000 undergrad and graduate occupants, NYU had the seventh-biggest college lodging framework in the U.S. starting 2007, and one of the biggest among tuition based schools.

Washington Campus

Since the late 1970s, the focal piece of NYU has been its Washington Square grounds in the heart of Greenwich Village. The Washington Square Arch is an informal image of NYU. Until 2007, NYU had held its beginning functions in Washington Square Park, however moved the services to Yankee Stadium in 2008 in view of remodels to Washington Square. 

In the 1990s, NYU turned into a "two square" college by building a second group around Union Square, in close vicinity to Washington Square. NYU's Union Square group fundamentally comprises of the need living arrangement corridors of Carlyle Court, Palladium Residence Hall, Alumni Hall, Coral Tower, Thirteenth Street Hall, University Hall, Third North Residence Hall, and Founders Hall. 

NYU works theaters and execution offices that are regularly utilized by the college's music studio and Tisch School of the Arts. Outer preparations are additionally every so often held in NYU's offices. The biggest execution lodging at NYU are the Skirball Center for Performing Arts (850 seats) at 566 LaGuardia Place, only south of Washington Square South, and the Eisner-Lubin Auditorium (560 seats) in the Kimmel Center. As of late, the Skirball Center facilitated essential discourses on outside strategy by John Kerry and Al Gore. The Skirball Center is the biggest performing expressions office south of 42nd Street.

Admission

Admission to NYU's undergrad projects is very specific, with 18,500 conceded from a candidate pool of 60,322 (31%) for the class of 2019. 

Complete green bean enlistment is 5,873 for the 2014–2015 scholastic year, speaking to 49 states and 90 nations, with 19% as non-US natives. Most first year recruits have a run of the mill unweighted GPA of 3.5/A (90–95%) and are in the main 10% of their secondary school graduating class. half of green beans score somewhere around 1900 and 2140 on the SAT and somewhere around 28 and 32 on the ACT. The understudy to-staff proportion at the New York grounds is 10:1, and not exactly that at the Abu Dhabi and Shanghai grounds. The normal grant sum honored to rookies is $29,528, and 22% of first year recruits got Pell Grants.

Athletics

NYU's games groups are alluded to as the NYU Violets, the hues being the trademarked tone "NYU Violet" and white. Since 1981, the school mascot has been a wildcat, whose root can be followed back to the contraction then being utilized by the Bobst Library automated index—short: Bobcat. NYU's games groups incorporate men's and ladies' varsity b-ball, crosscountry, fencing, golf, soccer, swimming and plunging, tennis, olympic style events, volleyball, and wrestling. The majority of NYU's games groups take part in the NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic Association, except for fencing, which partakes in Division I. While NYU has had All-American football players, the school has not had a varsity football group subsequent to 1952. 

NYU understudies additionally contend in club and intramural games, including badminton, baseball, b-ball, group, cycling, equestrianism, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby football, softball, squash, hand to hand fighting, tennis, marathon, extreme, and quidditch. The Coles Sports and Recreation Center serves as the home base of a few of NYU's intercollegiate athletic groups. A considerable lot of NYU's varsity groups play their diversions at different offices and fields all through Manhattan in view of the shortage of space for playing fields close grounds.

Faculty and Alumni

NYU is home to numerous unmistakable graduated class. No less than thirty-six Nobel Prize victors are partnered with NYU. NYU has 470,000 living graduated class starting 2015. Striking graduating classes incorporate 1941, which graduated three later Nobel Prize laureates (Julius Axelrod, Gertrude B. Elion and Clifford Shull), Olympic Gold Medalist John Woodruff, sportscaster Howard Cosell and humanist Morris Janowitz; 1951 included teacher emeritus at MIT and previous DARPA executive Jack Ruina and Cathleen Synge Morawetz, first lady beneficiary of National Medal of Science; 1957 included Pulitzer Prize winning creator Frank McCourt and president of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Josef Singer; 1964 included previous Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center, Jay Greene and film chief Martin Scorsese; and 1977 included: previous Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan; IRS Commissioner Mark Everson; INSEAD Dean Gabriel Hawawini; Pulitzer, Oscar and Tony Award champ John Patrick Shanley; NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman; physicist Lewis E. Little; NASDAQ CEO Robert Greifeld; Ma Ying-jeou president of Republic of China (Taiwan); Guillermo Endara president of Republic of Panama, Clive Davis music industry official, and Cathy Minehan, Federal Reserve Chairman Boston.