The Arts and Humanities programs, collectively, rank 16th in the country. Nearly a quarter of all of CUNY's ranked doctoral programs placed in the top ten among other public institutions. Through a unique consortium, most of The Graduate Center's renowned 1,700-member doctoral faculty also teach undergraduate students at the individual CUNY colleges. Pipeline students participate from their junior year through the time of the acceptance into a doctoral program. They take part in eight-week summer research institutes at The Graduate Center, as well as in workshops that prepare them to apply to doctoral programs, write a senior theses, and take the Graduate Record Examination or Graduate Management Admission Test.
Fellows also receive academic guidance and financial support.
Through Bridges, promising students have opportunities for accelerated admission to the CUNY Ph.D. Programs in Biology, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Physics, Psychology, and Speech and Hearing Sciences. The program also offers advanced research opportunities, tuition waiver for master's-level work, a paid research assignment in a doctoral faculty laboratory, mentoring, and stipends for professional conferences and to laboratory supplies. TOP Scholars receive an intensive summer course in teaching, a job in the New York City school system, continued mentoring, and free tuition for their master's degree. A Unique Law School The City University of New York School of Law is the nation's only law school that has defined its mission as training law students for public service. The CUNY School of Law has received national recognition for its innovative curriculum, its diverse student body and faculty, and for its clinical program, which has been ranked among the top in the country for the last eight years.