by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
The Graduate Center, CUNY was awarded 10 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health & medical administrative services.
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The Graduate Center landed the #694 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
The Graduate Center also holds the #67 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
The Graduate Center, CUNY has a very low acceptance rate of 24%, making it one of the most selective out of all the colleges and universities in the nation. It's probably a good idea to apply to other schools in addition to The Graduate Center just in case you don't make the cut.
At The Graduate Center, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 11 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at The Graduate Center, CUNY is 35%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,973 undergraduates at The Graduate Center with 714 being full-time and 2,259 being part-time.
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Contact details for The Graduate Center are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10016 |
| Phone: | 212-817-7000 |
| Website: | www.gc.cuny.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Public Health | 351 | NA |
| Nursing | 224 | $109,744 |
| General Psychology | 215 | $48,299 |
| Business Administration & Management | 159 | NA |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 115 | NA |
| General Business/Commerce | 113 | $65,520 |
| Ethnic Studies | 111 | NA |
| Information Science | 86 | $73,937 |
| Radio, Television & Digital Communication | 84 | NA |
| Sociology | 73 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 7,143 students took at least one online class at The Graduate Center, CUNY. This is a decrease from the 8,421 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 7,143 | 6,263 |
| 2021-2022 | 8,421 | 7,230 |
| 2020-2021 | 9,296 | 9,260 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,268 | 2,981 |
Learn more about online learning at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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