page_title: New York University College of Arts & Science
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: New York University College of Arts & Science / Notable alumni / Academics
caption_attribution_description: English: Howard Zinn, historian, in 2009.
context_page_description: The New York University College of Arts & Science is the primary liberal arts college of New York University. The school is located near Gould Plaza next to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Stern School of Business, within 2 miles of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. As the oldest and largest college within NYU, the College of Arts & Science currently enrolls 7,660 undergraduate students. CAS enrolls the largest number of undergraduate students for a private liberal arts college in the United States; its size and complexity owe to NYU’s overall profile of enrolling the largest number of students in the country for a private, nonprofit, residential, and nonsectarian institution of higher education. The College of Arts & Science offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.
  In the 2020 QS World University Rankings, NYU was ranked 1st in Philosophy, 10th in Mathematics, and 15th in English Language and Literature.
  Admission to the College of Arts & Science is highly competitive with an acceptance rate of 9% for the class of 2023.
context_section_description: Edward J. Bloustein, B.A. 1948; former president of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  Lionel Casson, B.A. 1934; classicist, archeologist, professor emeritus at New York University
  Howard Crosby, B.A. 1844; Presbyterian minister and NYU chancellor 1870–1881
  Richard Davidson, B.A. 1972; Professor of Psychology at University of Wisconsin–Madison
  Morris Janowitz, B.A. 1941; founder of military sociology, professor at University of Chicago
  Richard Joel, B.A. 1972; current president of Yeshiva University, New York City
  Joseph Keller, B.A. 1943; 1988 National Medal of Science recipient
  Paul Kurtz, B.A. 1948; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo
  Ellen Langer, B.A. 1970; Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
  Peter D. Lax, B.A. 1947; mathematician, 2005 Abel Prize recipient, 1986 National Medal of Science recipient
  Sherwin B. Nuland, B.A. 1951; bioethicist, author of How We Die
  Martha Nussbaum, B.A. 1969; philosopher, professor at University of Chicago
  Leonard Peikoff, B.A. 1954; philosopher, leading advocate of Objectivism
  Howard Zinn, B.A. 1951; historian, author of A People's History of the United States
caption: Howard Zinn, Class of 1967
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