CUNY Lehman College

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a large city.

Overview

Lehman College was established in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College. In 1968, it became an independent college. It is administered by the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The college was named for Herbert Lehman, the former New York governor and an U.S senator. Lehman College's campus covers more than 35 acres in Bronx, New York, and is located near the Jerome Park Reservoir.

Lehman College has over 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and is divided into various academic units. Some of these are journalism, communication and theatre, counseling, leadership, literacy and special education, physics and astronomy, and mathematics and computer science. Scholarships offered by the college include the Lehman College Academic Scholarship, Native American Scholarship Aid, Peter F. Vallone Academic Scholarship, and many more.

There are a wide variety of active student organizations at Lehman College including the National Association of Black Accountants, African Students Association, Italian Club, Musical Performance Club, and Student Theatre Association.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in nursing and emergency medicine, family and social work, education and teaching, and computer science and engineering.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• Selective admissions.
• High faculty salary.
• Large number of students.
• Many mature (40+ year old) students.
• Affordable tuition & fees.
• Racially diverse student body.
• High female/male ratio.
• Superior share of faculty on tenure track.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Masters Colleges and Universities I.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 11,860 in 2009-2010 (9,163 full-time equivalent).

About 34% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 66% of the class.

Undergrads are 80% of enrolled students and graduate students are 20%.

Students under 25 years old represent 53% of the student body. About 14% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 99% are full-time and 1% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

On-campus housing is not available.

Athletics

The school is in the City University of New York Athletic Conference for major sports.

Graduate School Focus

Lehman College offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Master.

The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Postbaccalaureate With Arts & Sciences (Education Dominant).

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (334 awarded)

• Accounting
• Business Administration and Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (70 awarded)

• Computer Science
• Information Science/Studies

DESIGN (8 awarded)

• Graphic Design

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (7 awarded)

• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (523 awarded)

• Art Teacher Education
• Bilingual and Multilingual Education
• Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services
• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
• Education/Teaching Individuals - Early Childhood Spec Ed Pgms
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• English/Language Arts Teacher Education
• Health Teacher Education
• History Teacher Education
• Mathematics Teacher Education
• Music Teacher Education
• Physical Education Teaching and Coaching
• Reading Teacher Education
• Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education
• Social Studies Teacher Education
• Spanish Language Teacher Education
• Special Education and Teaching
• Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (178 awarded)

• Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies
• Social Work

FINE ARTS (26 awarded)

• Fine/Studio Arts

LIBERAL ARTS (334 awarded)

• African-American/Black Studies
• Anthropology
• Cartography
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• Hispanic-American,Puerto Rican & Mexican-American/Chicano Studies
• History
• Latin American Studies
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature

MATHEMATICS (14 awarded)

• Mathematics

MEDIA (44 awarded)

• Journalism
• Mass Communication/Media Studies

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (82 awarded)

• Hospital and Health Care Facilities Administration/Management
• Public Health Education and Promotion

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (101 awarded)

• Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist
• Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

MEDICINE (9 awarded)

• Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)

MUSIC (10 awarded)

• Music Performance

NURSING AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE (202 awarded)

• Adult Health Nurse/Nursing
• Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing
• Nursing
• Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)
• Pediatric Nurse/Nursing

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (59 awarded)

• Dietetics/Dietitian (RD)
• Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (3 awarded)

• Philosophy

SCIENCE (34 awarded)

• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Geology/Earth Science
• Physics

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (99 awarded)

• Psychology