Top Universities in New York If you want to study in New York, you will be spoiled for choice. There are countless institutions in NYC itself, and no shortage of choices if you look beyond. Many of these institutions are ranked – indeed, the state has more institutions in the QS World University Rankings than some countries. However, as ever, be sure to look at more than rankings – particularly if you’re studying a specialist subject like fine art or music, for which NYC in particular can offer many establishments.


The illustrious Columbia University is the state’s highest ranking institution, coming in at 10 in 2011. It is an Ivy League institution, and has had no fewer than 79 Nobel laureates pass through its doors at some point in their career, as well as 29 heads of state.


It boasts strengths across disciples, and has been the site of some of the world’s most significant research and discoveries, including lasers, revolutionary drugs to treat glaucoma and breast cancer, and FM radio. In 2010 alone, the university spent US$807 million on research, putting it up with the top spenders in the country.


Like with any Ivy League institution, you will be competing with the world’s best if you want to join its student body of 27,606, just under a quarter of which are international. It should be noted that, as a research focussed institution, the university serves more students at graduate level than at undergraduate.


The state’s other Ivy League institution, Cornell University, is the next highest ranked, coming in at 15 in 2011. Cornell, based in picturesque college town Ithaca in upstate New York differs from Columbia in that its undergraduate student body of 14,000 outnumbers graduates by two to one.


However, it is still a big research spender, spending US$750 million in 2010. Unusually for a private institution, Cornell has Land Grant status. Perhaps as result, its agriculture and life sciences colleges is one of its best funded.


Cornell runs some of the country’s most highly regarded architecture, engineering and international relations programs. 41 Nobel Prize winners have passed through the university


For the next highest ranked intuition, we have to look back to New York City, to New York University, ranked 44th in 2011.


Another private institution, NYU has the largest student body of any non-profit private US university, with over 40,000 students from 134 countries enrolled at its fashionable Greenwich Village campus. It is divided into 18 colleges and schools, which offer 2,500 different courses and 25 different types of degree (type, not subject!).


Its finance, economics, mathematics and philosophy departments are considered to be among the world’s best, and with 34 Nobel Prize winners, as well as 16 Pulitzer Prize winners and 21 Oscar winners listing NYU on their CVs, it is clear that this is a university that engenders success.


The fourth highest ranked university in the state is the University of Rochester, at 128. Another private university, UR has a student body of just over 9,000, and a faculty of over 2,000, meaning it boasts one of the world’s best faculty student ratios.


It has been labelled as one of the US’s New Ivies by Newsweek, and is associated with eight Nobel Prize winners, to which we can add 12 holders of Pulitzer Prizes. In recent years, it has moved to allow students to chose their own courses rather than insist on a general education.


Rochester’s music courses are particularly highly regarded.


Find out more at: www.topuniversities.com/ where-to-study


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