New York City Education

The city’s public school system is supervised by the New York City Department of Education and it is the largest in the United States. Almost 1.1 million students are taught in more than 1,200 separate primary and secondary schools. There are around 900 extra privately run secular and religious schools in the city, including few of the most reputable private schools in the United States. Although it is not often reputed as a college town, there are almost 594,000 university students in New York City, the highest number of any city in the US. In 2005, three out of five Manhattan occupants were college graduates and one out of four took advanced degrees, making one of the highest densities of highly well-educated people in any American city. Public postsecondary education is offered by the City University of New York, the country's third-largest public university system, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State University of New York. New York City is likewise home to such known private universities as Barnard College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Fordham University, New York University, The New School, and Yeshiva University. The city has lots of additional smaller private colleges and universities, including several religious and special-purpose institutions, such as St. John’s University, The Juilliard School and The School of Visual Arts.

New York City as well features a lot of the most selected and exclusive private schools in the country. These schools include Brearley School, Dalton School, Spence School, The Chapin School, Nightingale-Bamford School, Convent of the Sacred Heart on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; Collegiate School and Trinity School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; Horace Mann School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and Riverdale Country School in Riverdale, Bronx; and Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Some of New York City’s renowned public secondary schools, often considered the best in the nation, include: Hunter College High School, Stuyvesant High School, The Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Technical High School, Bard High School Early College, Townsend Harris High School, and LaGuardia High School.

The New York Public Library, which bears the largest collection of any public library system in the country, serves Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island. Queens is served by the Queens Borough Public Library, which is the country's second largest public library system, and Brooklyn Public Library serves Brooklyn. The New York Public Library has a lot of research libraries, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

A lot of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the biosciences. New York City has the most post-graduate biosciences degrees granted annually in the US, 40,000 licensed physicians, and 127 Nobel laureates with roots in local institutions. The city gets the second-highest amount of yearly funding from the National Institutes of Health among all US cities. Major biomedical research institutions include Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College.