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New York University ('''NYU''') is a Private , Nonsectarian , Coeducational Research University in New York City . NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan . Founded in 1831 , NYU is the largest private, Non-profit institution of Higher Education in the United States , with an enrollment of more than 40,000. NYU consists of 15 schools, colleges, and divisions, occupying six centers throughout Manhattan. NYU operates Study Abroad facilities in London , Paris , Florence , Prague , Madrid , Berlin , Accra , Shanghai and will have facilities in Singapore by fall 2007. Proposed sites are also being finalized in Latin America , the Persian Gulf Region and the Middle East . For four consecutive years NYU has been ranked as America's "#1 dream school" by the Princeton Review . In 2006, NYU was named by Kaplan as one of the "New Ivies".3 NYU counts 27 Nobel Prize winners; 9 National Medal Of Science recipients; 12 Pulitzer Prize winners; 19 Academy Award winners (more than any other American university); several Emmy , Grammy , and Tony Award winners; and many MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship holders among its past and present Graduates And Faculty . Despite having an Urban Campus , NYU has an active student body—some of the first Fraternities in the country were formed at NYU. Also, a number of university traditions take place every year among the various clubs and twenty-one undergraduate Residence Halls . With 12,500 residents, NYU has the seventh largest university housing system in the U.S. and the largest among private schools. NYU's sports teams are called the Violets, the colors being the trademarked hue "NYU Violet" and white; the school Mascot is the bobcat. Almost all sporting teams participate in the NCAA 's Division III and the University Athletic Association . While NYU has had many All-American football players, it has not had a varsity Football team since the 1960s. HISTORY See Also: History of New York University A group of prominent New York City residents – the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders – established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright or social class. Albert Gallatin , Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson , is cited as the founder. NYU was created Non-denominational , unlike many American colonial colleges at the time.4 .]] On April 21, 1831, the new institution received its Charter and was incorporated as the University of the City of New York by the New York State Legislature ; older documents often refer to it by that name. The university has been popularly known as New York University since its beginning and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall . In 1835, the School Of Law , NYU's first professional school, was established. Whereas NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in The Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York City's development further uptown. NYU's move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken . The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was. As a result, most of the university’s operations along with the undergraduate College Of Arts And Science and School of Engineering were housed there. With most of NYU's operations transferred to the new campus, the Washington Square campus declined; only the law school remained there until the establishment of Washington Square College in 1914. This college would become the downtown arts and sciences division of NYU. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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