WHERE
CAN
TECHNOLOGY
TAKE
YOU?
THE CITY TECH VALUE
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.260.5500
www.citytech.cuny.edu
17,424
STUDENT ENROLLMENT FALL 2015
Students Enrolled in
Baccalaureate Degrees
Full-Time Students
7,212
Part-Time Students
62%
38%
44%
STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY DISTRICT
Senate
District 19
District 21
District 20
District 18
District 22
District 25
District 10
District 17
District 15
District 13
District 14
District 23
District 12
District 16
1282
1255
1032
937
913
904
893
780
762
710
691
636
593
516
Total: 11904
District 58
District 42
District 55
District 59
District 54
District 49
District 60
District 47
District 51
District 38
District 31
District 43
District 57
District 41
District 45
District 44
District 32
District 53
District 56
District 34
District 29
N. Nick Perry
Rodneyse Bichotte
Latrice Monique Walker
Vacant
Erik Martin Dilan
Peter J. Abbate, Jr
Charles Barron
William Colton
Felix Ortiz
Michael Miller
Michele R. Titus
Karim Camara
Walter T. Mosley
Helene E. Weinstein
Steven Cymbrowitz
James F. Brennan
Vivian Cook
Maritza Davila
Annette Robinson
Michael G. DenDekker
William Scarborough
50
STUDENT ENROLLMENT,
INCREASING BY
%
City Tech
Assembly
Roxanne Persaud
Kevin S, Parker
Jesse Hamilton
Martin Malave Dilan
Martin Golde
Velmanette Montgomery
James Sanders
Simcha Fedler
Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.
Jose Peralta
Leroy Comrie
Diane J. Savino
Michael Gianaris
Tobhy Ann Stavisky
IN FACT, DURING THE LAST DECADE, CITY TECH HAS SEEN RAPID GROWTH IN
545
539
502
485
465
461
450
438
432
380
373
368
364
363
346
344
341
335
331
318
302
Total: 8482
has become
a major
force in the
development
of skilled
graduates
ready for the
high-tech
careers that
increasingly
define the
global economy.
SINCE 2003
AFFORDABLE
• Pace University (2015): $41,281
$40,000
• St. John’s University (2015): $38,680
$30,000
$25,000
$20,000
$15,000
$10,000
$9,500
$9,000
2012-13 Average
Total Cost for
Public Colleges
and Universities in
the United States
$15,022
(U.S. Department of Education,
National Center for Education
Statistics. (2015). Digest of
Education Statistics, 2013)
2012-13 Average
Total Cost for
Private Colleges
and Universities in
the United States
$34,483
(U.S. Department of Education,
National Center for Education
Statistics. (2015). Digest of
Education Statistics, 2013)
• Binghamton Univesity
SUNY (2015): $9,053
$8,500
$8,000
$7,500
• Univesity of Wisconsin
Oshkosh (2015): $7,437
$7,000
$6,500
• California State University
Long Beach (2015): $6,452
$6,000
$5,500
City Tech
(2015)
$6,720
STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
DIVERSITY
$35,000
152
%
62
CITY TECH STUDENTS COME FROM
COUNTRIES
REPORT LANGUAGE OTHER THAN
ENGLISH SPOKEN AT HOME
STUDENT RESIDENCE
46.9% Brooklyn
27.6%Queens
8.7%Manhanttan
11.4%Bronx
2.4% Staten Island
TUITION AND FEES
21
MEDIAN AGE
56% MALE
44% FEMALE
31% Black (non-Hispanic)
32%Hispanic
19% Asian/Pacific Islander
12% White (non-Hispanic)
1% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
1% Two or more races
4% Nonresident
STUDENT FINANCIAL BACKGROUND
58%
58% report
household income less
than $30,000
67%
80%
80% incoming
freshmen receive
need-based aid
25%
2.7% Other NY State
.3%
Other U.S.
67% continuing
students receive
need-based aid
25% work more than
20 hours per week
(Based on 2014 CUNY
Student Experience Survey)
PARTNERSHIPS
CITY TECH HAS BEEN CITED AS “THE ENGINE OF WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.”
City Tech works with its partners to support the evolution of Brooklyn’s
Tech Triangle and the economic expansion of Downtown Brooklyn.
In addition, the College works with partners across the City, and will
be the lead educational partner involved with the training of a skilled
workforce in the industrial and manufacturing sections of Sunset Park,
Brooklyn— primarily in Industry City.
Because City Tech is committed
to providing students with the
latest technology, more space is
dedicated to laboratories than
traditional classrooms.
Students have access to two 3-D printers in
Architectural Technology and Mechanical Engineering
Technology, simulation labs in the Department of
Nursing, a mechatronics lab for the engineering
programs, information security technology in the
Department of Computer Systems Technology and a
super computer in the Department of Physics.
Through City Tech’s
partners, students
have the opportunity
to intern at companies
that operate in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard,
as well as at Goldman
Sachs, Brookhaven
National Laboratories,
Honda, Infor, Microsoft
and many other
leading corporations.
A special arrangement with Infor provides both student internships and
specialized training for faculty in Infor’s proprietary software. Collaboration
in the design of the much-imitated P-Tech Early College High School
has led to a strong partnership between City Tech and IBM. Continuing
Education at City Tech will soon run a program in conjunction with
Microsoft to bring underrepresented groups into advanced IT careers.
City Tech also partners with organizations that feed those in greatest
need, and addresses significant gaps in healthcare. The departments
of Vision Care Technology and Dental Hygiene each operate patient care
clinics that provide services to the community.
$74 MILLION
IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015, CITY TECH STUDENTS WERE AWARDED
IN GRANTS-IN-AID
CITY TECH FOUNDATION
TOTAL FUNDING* FOR STUDENT SUPPORT 2013-15
$1,241,317
2,074
TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS*
*Scholarship
$809,947
*Research & Professional Development
$137,091
*Emergency Grants (Petrie)
$294,279
*Number of Students
582
*Number of Students
890
*Number of Students
602
SCHOLARSHIP
AND RESEARCH
IN HIGH-IMPACT
STEM AREAS
by City Tech faculty provides
enormous benefit to our
students. During the two
most recent academic years,
76%
GRADUATED
DEBT-FREE
(2014-15)
grants received by
faculty have provided
scholarships and
research stipends to
1,484
STUDENTS
TOTALING
$
TUITION-FREE
3,112,055 58%
of students had
financial aid
equal to or greater
than tuition
Among the City Tech students
who took out loans, the average
(median) loan debt was
$7,005
CITY TECH
$0
In 2013, National
average student loan
debt approached
$30,000*
NATIONAL AVERAGE
$30,000
*U.S. News & World Report
2015
STUDENT
HIGHLIGHTS
PROJECT
Culinary arts students
from City Tech’s department of Hospitality
Management won the prestigious
MARC SARRAZIN
PRIZE
at the international Salon of Culinary Arts
competition in New York City. It was
the sixth victory for City Tech teams in
the last twelve years.
TOBiAS: Eugene Babkin, Bijan Mokhtari and Angelo Kuka,
City Tech engineering technology students, created TOBiAS
(Tele-Operated Bi-manual Augmented System), a virtual realitystyle immersive experience that allows human input to dictate
the movement of a remote robotic torso. TOBiAS was the
Team DURA:
A City Tech team, with about 60 student participants from a range of majors, was selected to compete in the
US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SOLAR DECATHLON,
WINNING DESIGN
in a national competition sponsored by Digilent Technologies.
The team was invited to compete at the international competition in Shanghai, China, where they won first place.
in Irvine, California. It was the only one of twenty teams comprised entirely of undergraduates.
DURA ON FILM:
A film created by nine City Tech students, documenting the construction of the DURAsolar house,
was chosen by the audience as
“BEST IN SHOW”
at the international Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Hollywood
Professional Alliance (HPA) Student Film Festival in Hollywood, California.
MD Arefin, a computer systems major, was selected from
among thousands of applicants to participate in the
GOOGLE
SUMMER OF CODE
program; MD spent the summer writing code to provide
new Java tools for programmers.
420
%
50
NUMBER OF FULL-TIME FACULTY
City Tech’s outstanding faculty—many
recruited from business, industry
and the professions—provide students
with the benefit of their extensive
knowledge and real-world experience.
With more than 17,000 students during 2014-2015,
City Tech now has the largest undergraduate enrollment
of any of CUNY’s senior colleges. The full-time faculty
has grown by more than one-third in the last 10 years,
now totaling approximately 400—an all-time high.
Faculty members play a leading role as the College
meets the challenge of preparing students for increasingly important green/sustainable technologies, for the
constantly transforming areas of digital technologies,
and for technologies in the health fields.
MORE THAN A
AIA NATIONAL COMPONENT EXCELLENCE AWARD
Illya Azaroff
Department of Architectural Technology
Professor Azaroff, formerly honored by the American Institute of
Architecture as its Young Architect of the Year, received additional
recognition for founding the AIA Regional Recovery Working Group
to re-imagine a more resilient and sustainable region after
Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Northeast. This Working Group,
which includes former City Tech students and architects from
the surrounding region, received the AIA National Component
Excellence Award for Knowledge Sharing Initiatives at the
Grassroots Leadership Conference in Washington, DC. This is the
first time the award has been given.
INCREASE DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS.
JONAS SCHOLAR FOR NURSING LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP
Kathleen Falk
Department of Nursing
ProfessorFalk’s research, teaching, and practice focus
on embedding healthcare in education, a model
that is currently serving residents of the Brownsville
neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was awarded the
Jonas Scholar for Nursing Leadership Fellowship for
her development of a model for nurses working with
children of incarcerated parents.
EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD
Renata Budny
Department of Restorative Dentistry
Professor Budny is the recipient of the 2014
Educator of the Year Award from the
National Association of Dental Laboratories
(NADL). She has also been named one
of 25 women of the year in Dentistry
by Dental Products, an important trade
journal. Professor Budny’s distinguished
career began with her associate degree in
dental laboratory technology at City Tech.
TOP PRIZE WINNER IN IFF EKOTOP FILM FESTIVAL
Ryoya Terao
Department of Entertainment Technology
Professor Terao’s documentary film, “Quest for
Energy” won the Ministry of Education, Science,
Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
Prize at the IFF Ekotopfilm Festival—the 41st
International Festival of Sustainable Development
Films, held at Primacial Palace in Bratislava,
Slovakia. This is one of many awards for
Professor Terao’s documentary films, in which
City Tech students regularly participate.
CITY TECH’S VALUE
A
rriving in the United States
from West Africa in 2000, with
only $150 in his pocket, Alassane
Ngaide used some of that money
to purchase two basic English
learner books so that he could
teach himself English. Alassane’s
parents had just sold all their
belongings in order to send him to
the United States so that he—one
of nine children—could help support his family and hopefully earn
a college degree.
Graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering and with a GPA of
3.974, Alassane surpassed even his
own expectations. Now in graduate
school at Queens College, he plans
to teach math at the college level.
But his path to college wasn’t easy.
For almost a decade, Alassane
worked at various jobs to support
himself and his family back home,
keeping just a few dollars aside
for his ultimate goal of earning a
college degree. “Being a student at
City Tech taught me humility and
acceptance. This college taught
me that even a poor African man
from a tiny village can become successful and realize his dream when
he applies himself,” says Ngaide.
Maritza Lopez is the daughter of
immigrants who earned a degree in
radiologic technology and went on
to earn another in Health Services
Administration while working at
Mt. Sinai Hospital as a radiologic
technologist. Before Maritza completed her four-year degree, she
was already gainfully employed and
thriving in the health care field.
Lopez endured a hardscrabble
childhood, learning from an early
age to advocate for her father—
often hospitalized with complications
from diabetes—in the labyrinthine
and often impersonal health care
system. It was an encounter with a
radiologic technician at a New York
City hospital, whom she observed
treating her father with gentleness,
that sealed Lopez’s decision to enter
the profession. “At work, for the few
minutes or hours that any patient is
in my care, I am not just a health
care provider, I am their friend. We
share laughs and smiles even when
they seem impossible to create,”
says Lopez, who later discovered
that the technician who inspired
her was a City Tech alumnus.
Naide and Lopez represent the
thousands of City Tech graduates
who benefit from the value of
a CUNY education. Where Can
Technology Take You? At City Tech,
the possibilities are endless.
96
%
of City Tech’s
2014-2015
graduates were
either employed
or furthering their
education within
six months of
graduating.
“2,674 miles. By foot, by boat,
by train, hungry and thirsty,
hidden and in silence. 2,674
miles is the heroic journey
my mother took with my
sister in her arms in search
of a better life...So I held my
head high; I am unashamed
and undeterred. Being poor
or homeless are not things
that define who I am, but they
are what made me self-reliant,
hardworking and resilient...
The greatest gift I take away
from being a student at City
Tech is the luxury of understanding that I am not a product of
my circumstances. Instead, I
can pave my own path.”
—Maritza Lopez / Valedictorian ’14
HIGHEST
CITY TECH ASSOCIATE DEGREE
GRADUATES EARN THE
IS BEST SUMMED UP BY ITS RECENT
VALEDICTORIANS: ALASSANE NGAIDE
’15 AND MARITZA LOPEZ ’14
MID-CAREER
According to
PayScale,
a company that
studies salaries,
SALARIES
OF ANY COLLEGE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
We couldn’t have
done it without
support from our
City and State.
We look forward
to your continuing
support.
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