Within walking distance are the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Brooklyn's main civic and shopping areas. Within a short subway ride are Wall Street, The World Trade Center, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center with the world famous Metropolitan Opera, the Broadway theater district, a wealth of great museums, and the United Nations. The campus has art galleries, lounges, a complete bookstore, theater, conference facilities, gymnasiums, and an athletic field. The Campus is alive with cultural activities, choral and orchestral music, poetry readings, engaging discussions, and athletic competitions featuring champion All-American teams in basketball, soccer, and baseball. There are more than 75 clubs, honor societies, and academic organizations.
Classes are small, led by scholars with national and international reputations.
Students often work alongside their professors on research projects sponsored by city, state, and federal governments and foundations. Here, students benefit from careful academic advisement, strong programs of study, and a placement office with a proven record of finding jobs. Over 30,000 alumni, networked throughout the nation in leadership positions, help to make this possible. By any criteria, The Brooklyn Campus is a place for those truly desirous of making a life and a living. The University Honors Program, among the best in the nation, invites students to participate in exciting interdisciplinary studies, while pursuing departmental majors.