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New York University

Private university in New York City

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About

instance of
inception
  • 1831
founder
official name
  • New York University
motto text
  • Perstare et praestare (la)
industry
language used
academic calendar type

Location and contact

country
located in the administrative territorial entity
headquarters location
street address
  • 70 Washington Sq South, New York, NY, 10012-1091
postal code
  • 10012-1091
coordinate location
  • 40.7300, -73.9950
official website

People and numbers

count of students
  • 51,848 · November 2018
  • 57,270 · full-time equivalent · 1 September 2021
employees
  • 15,286
  • 17,000 · 2025
admission rate
  • 21% · 2020
admission yield rate
  • 40% · 2020
position held by head of the organization

Rankings and recognition

ranking
  • 38 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
  • 27 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026
  • 28 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2025
Earlier figures (21)
  • 31 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2024
  • 28 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2023
  • 25 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2022
  • 27 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2021
  • 27 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2020
  • 30 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2019
  • 32 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2018
  • 29 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2017
  • 29 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2016
  • 27 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2015
  • 27 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2014
  • 27 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2013
  • 27 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2012
  • 29 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2011
  • 31 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2010
  • 31 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2008
  • 30 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2007
  • 29 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2006
  • 29 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2005
  • 32 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2004
  • 55 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2003
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

Finances

endowment
  • $5,148,740,532 · 30 June 2022
Earlier figures (2)
  • $5,574,826,697 · 30 June 2021
  • $4,578,665,100 · 30 June 2020
total revenue
  • $11,618,297,563 · 2024
Earlier figures (13)
  • $10,482,244,760 · 2023
  • $9,643,849,699 · 2022
  • $8,915,280,016 · 2021
  • $8,011,264,159 · 2020
  • $7,717,095,477 · 2019
  • $7,293,618,415 · 2018
  • $6,607,886,919 · 2017
  • $6,043,438,258 · 2016
  • $5,328,246,960 · 2015
  • $5,133,788,413 · 2014
  • $4,593,364,263 · 2013
  • $4,016,974,399 · 2012
  • $3,642,077,700 · 2011
total assets
  • $21,118,915,579 · 2024
Earlier figures (13)
  • $19,789,263,135 · 2023
  • $18,909,220,283 · 2022
  • $19,313,469,050 · 2021
  • $17,380,971,000 · 30 June 2020
  • $14,574,664,085 · 2019
  • $13,490,632,029 · 2018
  • $12,445,235,606 · 2017
  • $11,191,514,569 · 2016
  • $10,269,220,274 · 2015
  • $9,297,236,020 · 2014
  • $8,618,608,466 · 2013
  • $8,038,275,299 · 2012
  • $7,730,797,680 · 2011
donations
  • $1,722,373,043 · 2024
Earlier figures (13)
  • $1,598,214,637 · 2023
  • $1,450,599,040 · 2022
  • $1,501,723,992 · 2021
  • $1,205,644,208 · 2020
  • $1,287,796,390 · 2019
  • $1,238,136,656 · 2018
  • $1,125,243,260 · 2017
  • $1,044,889,535 · 2016
  • $1,019,592,114 · 2015
  • $971,617,137 · 2014
  • $960,468,399 · 2013
  • $857,257,738 · 2012
  • $701,545,471 · 2011
funder
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $600,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee's research and educational efforts around climate litigation, protection of climate defenders, attribution science, and communications related to climate change impact and climate-induced losses and damages · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $666,985 · award rationale: to support setting up a new fellowship and visiting scholars program within the Remarque Institute. · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $450,000 · award rationale: to support the Center on International Cooperation work to promote dialogue and action between global south countries and multilateral institutions towards support for urgent address of interlinked issues of financing, debt, inequality, climate and conflict · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $205,000 · award rationale: to support the Center on International Cooperation to facilitate exchanges on victim-centered justice between governments, international organizations and civil society from Ukraine and other countries · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $700,000 · award rationale: to support the Future of Rights and Governance Program to curate a collaborative action-research process that addresses the current challenges of global governance · 2023
29 more
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $400,000 · award rationale: to support the expansion of the intellectual framework and the advocacy tools of the human rights field · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $800,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice to carry out a global project on prevention of human rights violations · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $350,000 · award rationale: to provide program support to the media platform, Just Security, to promote enriching policy debate at the intersection of national security, the rule of law, rights, and freedoms · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: to advance global action on multilateralism and inequality · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to support NYU's program to accelerate climate action and climate justice in and by the Caribbean · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: to provide program support to the media platform, Just Security, to promote enriching policy debate at the intersection of national security, the rule of law, rights, and freedoms · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $626,000 · award rationale: to support the Technology Program at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice in their work to research and communicate the impact of datafication and digital states on human rights, to benefit the global civil society movement challenging tech-driven human rights abuses · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,000,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee’s Center for Business and Human Rights in advancing corporate respect for human rights through research, advocacy, and engagement · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $530,000 · award rationale: to support poll development and focus group deployment in order to better understand civil society needs and economic justice in Ethiopia, especially as related to the Covid-19 crisis · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,000,823 · award rationale: to support the Grantee's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice to support climate litigation, education, and communications related to climate change · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $40,000 · award rationale: to support the Women and Migration(s): Responses in Art, History and Policy program · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $20,000 · award rationale: to curate, disseminate, and promote rigorous scholarly and practitioner evidence on early childhood development (ECD) and psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional learning (SEL) in crisis- and conflict-affected contexts that will inform policy, programming, and future research · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $400,000 · award rationale: to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of the advent of the digital welfare state and its implications for human rights, as well as to provide critical inputs on these issues into the work of the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Professor Philip Alston at NYU School of Law, on extreme poverty and human rights · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $40,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice to convene an international strategic workshop with practitioners and engaged researchers from around the world in the emerging field of climate litigation, to enhance collaboration · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $150,000 · award rationale: to support the Hemispheric Institute in developing and implementing a humor-based campaign to educate the public on the importance of drug policy reform in Mexico · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: to support Just Security, an editorially autonomous online media platform based at the NYU law school’s Reiss Center on Law and Security that educates readers on issues at the intersection of US national security, the rule of law, rights, and freedoms · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $60,000 · award rationale: to provide support for research on topics of shared capital and digitalization that addresses inequality and exclusion, for dissemination to policymakers and governments participating in the Grand Challenge on Inequality and Exclusion · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $45,000 · award rationale: to support the publication of a special issue of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) on the topic of refugee education, to further enhance the field of education in this area · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to support an innovative project seeking to advance the theoretical understanding and practical implementation of economic and social rights, through scholarly analysis and empirical work undertaken in the context of the work of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $24,500 · award rationale: to launch a grand challenge on the Sustainable Development Goals' targets for inequality and exclusion, as part of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $25,000 · award rationale: to support the McSilver Institute in it's overall mission to strengthen the field of research in poverty, structural racism, and systemic oppression · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $600,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee's Center for Business and Human Rights in advancing corporate respect for human rights through a mixture of research, advocacy, and convening · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $45,496 · award rationale: Enhancing the Well-Being of Human Rights Advocates Improving Resilience through Evidence-Based Interventions · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $8,000 · award rationale: To support the Human Rights Methodology Lab to hold a special session convening participants from the Human Rights Science Workshop held in 2016, which would seek to workshop and research an advocacy project from a frontline grassroots organization incorporating science and technology into narrative-driven advocacy work. · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $225,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute in its mission to educate scholars of Asian law and enhance the international community’s understanding of legal reform in Asia · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $375,000 · award rationale: to support Just Security, an online media platform based at the Grantee's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice that provides insights and commentary on national security law and policy · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $90,000 · award rationale: to allow the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics to bring together a group of Central American and Mexican artists to create one or more humor-based interventions with the objective of educating the Mexican public on the issue of Central American migrants in Mexico · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $382,375 · award rationale: Scholars at Risk Global South Engagement in Advocacy and Values Promotion · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $180,000 · award rationale: To support the UN Special Rapporteur on Transitional Justice · 2016

Structure and memberships

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  • New York University
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social media followers
  • 187,439 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 28421825 · 5 February 2023
  • 112,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCWbOgmmhIvrmcxKiAF8twPA · 14 June 2025
Earlier figures (6)
  • 163,964 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 28421825 · 21 February 2022
  • 143,207 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 28421825 · 7 January 2021
  • 101,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCWbOgmmhIvrmcxKiAF8twPA · 6 July 2024
  • 91,900 · YouTube channel ID: UCWbOgmmhIvrmcxKiAF8twPA · 14 January 2024
  • 74,800 · YouTube channel ID: UCWbOgmmhIvrmcxKiAF8twPA · 17 February 2023
  • 50,200 · YouTube channel ID: UCWbOgmmhIvrmcxKiAF8twPA · 2 July 2021
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  • 0000319693 · subject named as: New York University
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  • 119954121 · subject named as: New York university · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: University of the City of New York
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  • 90321725 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: NYU
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  • 533139 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: N.Y.U. · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: University of New York
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  • 1713-9 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: NY Univ. · alternative name: N. Y. Univ.
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  • 028038231 · subject named as: New York University
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  • 987007265937305171 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: N.Y.U. (New York University) · alternative name: University of the City of New York · alternative name: NYU (New York University) · alternative name: New York. New York University
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  • 35383350 · subject named as: New York University
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  • n79058487 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: N.Y.U. · alternative name: University of New York
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  • DA01984539 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: New York (N.Y.). University · alternative name: New York (N.Y.). New York University · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: N.Y.U.
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  • vtls000337196 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: N.Y.U.
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  • 000116876 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: Ņujorka (Amerikas Savienotās Valstis). New York University · alternative name: NYU
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  • XX138969 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: University of the City of the New York · alternative name: Universidad de Nueva York
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  • ko2007393118 · subject named as: New York University
  • ko2007393119 · subject named as: University of the City of New York
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  • 933193 · subject named as: New York University
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  • n2009060745 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: NYU · alternative name: Uniwersytet Nowojorski
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  • A000191869 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: NYU (New York University)
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  • nyu · language of work or name: English · subject named as: New York University · since 4 November 2009
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  • 58543 · subject named as: New York University
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  • 500312826 · subject named as: New York University
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  • 494/11705 · subject named as: New York University · alternative name: New York (N.Y.) University · alternative name: NYU
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  • nyuniversity · has characteristic: verified account or profile · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 28421825 · 29 February 2020
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  • UCWbOgmmhIvrmcxKiAF8twPA · subject named as: New York University · number of works: 1,474 · number of subscribers: 46,800 · number of viewers/listeners: 7,738,661 · 10 December 2020
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  • 19692536 · subject named as: 纽约大学 (New York University)
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