The house at 15 Washington Mews features offices for IFS faculty, a spacious periodical reading room and student lounge, an extensive collection of French daily newspapers, weekly magazines, and scholarly journals, a reference library, and seminar rooms. The University and New York City Students at New York University enjoy the advantages of being a part of a truly international university in the most international of cities. NYU has students from more than 75 countries and all 50 states. Its vast array of graduate programs spans the intellectual and geographic spectrum and offers a wealth of colloquia, seminars, and conferences in which students and faculty can participate.
Students also have access to resources for research unequaled elsewhere in the United States.
NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library is one of the largest open-stack research libraries in the country with more than 2.9 million books and journals. And the extraordinary collection of the New York Public Library is just a few subway stops away. Although NYU is devoted to the life of the mind, it provides facilities for the body as well. The Jerome S. Coles Sports and Recreation Center is open to all students for swimming, tennis, squash, racketball, basketball, aerobics, weight training, and more. In a larger sense, New York City's extraordinary cultural resources make it perhaps the richest and most exciting learning environment in the world.