Cayuga Community College Clinton Community College Columbia-Greene Community College Corning Community College Dutchess Community College Erie Community College Finger Lakes Community College Fulton-Montgomery Community College Genesee Community College Herkimer County Community College Hudson Valley Community College Jamestown Community College Jefferson Community College Mohawk Valley Community College Monroe Community College Nassau Community College Niagara County Community College North Country Community College Onondaga Community College Orange County Community College (SUNY Orange) Rockland Community College Schenectady County Community College Suffolk County Community College Sullivan County Community College Tompkins Cortland Community College Ulster County Community College Westchester Community College The CUNY System The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City and is independent of the SUNY system. It is the largest urban university in the United States, with 11 senior colleges, an honors college, 7 community colleges, a doctorate-granting graduate school, a journalism school, a law school, the CUNY School of Medicine, a professional studies school, and a public health school. More than 274,000 degree-credit, adult, continuing and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all five New York City boroughs. CUNY consists of the following 24 colleges, including the senior colleges, community colleges, graduate and professional institutions. Senior Colleges Baruch College Brooklyn College City College of New York College of Staten Island Hunter College John Jay College of Criminal Justice Lehman College Medgar Evers College New York City College of Technology Queens College, City University of New York York College, City University of New York Community Colleges Borough of Manhattan Community College Bronx Community College Guttman Community College Hostos Community College Kingsborough Community College LaGuardia Community College Queensborough Community College Graduate and professional schools CUNY Graduate Center CUNY Graduate School of Journalism CUNY School of Law CUNY School of Medicine CUNY School of Professional Studies CUNY School of Public Health William E. Macaulay Honors College Private universities New York has hundreds of private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions. The state's land-grant university is Cornell University; though primarily a private institution, it has public sectors. Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and the University of Rochester are widely regarded as the premier higher education institutions in New York, all of them leading, world-renowned universities and members of the Association of American Universities, the pre-eminent group of research universities in the United States. Two of the nation's five Federal Service