page_title: Education in New York (state)
section_title: Private universities
hierarchical_section_title: Education in New York (state) / Colleges and universities / Private universities
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Columbia University at New York City (taken on Sunday, June 15, 2003 by djmutex), herewith licensed under GFDL.
context_page_description: The University of the State of New York, its policy-setting Board of Regents, and its administrative arm, the New York State Education Department, oversee all public primary, middle-level, and secondary education in the state. The New York City Department of Education, which manages the public school system in New York City, is the largest school district in the United States, with more students than the combined population of eight U.S. states. Over 1 million students are taught in more than 1,200 separate schools.
context_section_description: New York has hundreds of private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions. The state's land-grant university is Cornell University; though primarily a private institution, it has public sectors. Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and the University of Rochester are widely regarded as the premier higher education institutions in New York, all of them leading, world-renowned universities and members of the Association of American Universities, the pre-eminent group of research universities in the United States.
  Two of the nation's five Federal Service Academies are located in New York:  the United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point.
  New York attracts the most college students from other states, according to statistics that show that among freshmen who leave their home states to attend college, more come to New York than any other state, including California.
  In total, New York State has 307 degree-granting institutions, second in number only to California. Among the most notable and highest ranked institutions are:
  Bard College
  Clarkson University
  Canisius College
  Colgate University
  Columbia University
  Cooper Union
  Cornell University
  Culinary Institute of America
  Daemen College
  Dominican College
  Elmira College
  Fordham University
  Hamilton College
  Helene Fuld College of Nursing
  Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  Hofstra University
  Iona College
  Ithaca College
  Manhattan College
  Marist College
  New York Institute of Technology
  New York University
  Pace University
  Pratt Institute
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Rochester Institute of Technology
  Sarah Lawrence College
  Skidmore College
  St. Bonaventure University
  St. John Fisher College
  St. John's University
  St. Lawrence University
  Syracuse University
  Union College
  University of Rochester
  Utica College
  Vassar College
  Wells College
caption: Butler Library at Columbia University in the City of New York, which has the largest endowment of any higher education institution in New York.
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