CUNY is the nation?s leading urban university: eleven senior colleges, 6 community colleges, a graduate school, a law school, the School of Professional Studies and The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Nearly 220,000 degree-credit students and more than 200,000 adult, continuing and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all New York City boroughs. In Fall 2004, 46 percent of all the college students in the City of New York were attending CUNY.

　　纽约市立大学是全国领先的城市大学：拥有十一所高级学院、六所社区学院、一所研究生院、一所法学院、专业研究学院和索菲·戴维斯生物医学教育学院。近 22 万名学位学分学生以及超过 20 万名成人、继续教育和专业教育学生在纽约市各区的校园注册。2004 年秋季，纽约市 46%的大学生就读于 CUNY。