Queens College, City University of New York
This article refers to a college in New York. For the college in New Jersey formerly known as Queen's College, see Rutgers University. For other institutions named Queens College, see Queen's College (disambiguation).Queens College is one of the senior colleges of the
City University of New York. It was established in
1937 to offer a strong
liberal arts education to the residents of
Queens. Queens College has grown into a campus of 16,604 including 12,346 undergraduates and 4,647 graduate students. While it is widely known as a
liberal arts college, Queens College is, in fact, a comprehensive college offering undergraduate and some graduate degrees at the
master's level. Students from 120 different countries speaking 66 different languages are enrolled at the school, located in scenic Flushing, New York.
The
Princeton Review ranked Queens eighth in the United States, in its 2006 edition of "America's Best Value Colleges."[
1] The college is ranked 50th among Northern Universities-Master's by
U.S. News and World Report (tied with
Baruch College, another CUNY college).[
2]
CUNY's
law school is located on the campus of Queens College, although it is a separate administrative unit of CUNY.
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Joy Behar - comedienne, and co-host of The View
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Hon. Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist.
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Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during
Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student
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Ron Jeremy - prolific
pornographic film actor
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Stanley Milgram - psychologist
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Robert Moog - inventor of the
Moog synthesizer*
Donna Orender -
WNBA president
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Ray Romano - actor, comedian
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Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
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Paul Simon - musician,
Simon and Garfunkel*
Jon Favreau - actor and director
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Dov Hikind - Member of the New York State Assembly
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Alan Hevesi - New York State Comptroller
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Gary Ackerman - New York State Congressman (D) 5th District
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Nathan Leventhal - Former President Lincoln Center
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Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
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Dorothy Rabinowitz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
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Mary Murphy - Emmy Award-winning TV Anchor
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Joseph Crowley - (D NY) Congressman 7th District
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Charles Wang - Founder of
Computer Associates*
Nathan Gilkarov - Economist, Philosopher
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Barbara Bach - Actress, Wife of Ringo Starr
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Michael Savage - Radio Talk Show Personality
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Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
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Carole King - Songwriter and Recording Artist
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The QC Quad. Photo by Faisal Zafar |
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Rosenthal Library, QC. Photo by Faisal Zafar |
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Powdermaker Hall, QC. Photo by Faisal Zafar |
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Official Queens College*
The Knight News (Queens College newspaper)
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WQMC Radio (Student Radio Station)
