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About Long Island University

Long Island University is... a multi-campus, highly-diverse, independent doctoral university with access to the life and resources of the world's greatest city. Offering a full range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs, its highest priority is student-centered education, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, enriched by research and experiential learning, and made available to promising students from all walks of life. Combining the personalities of distinctive campuses with the resources of a large university, its residential campuses are downtown Brooklyn, including the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; C.W. Post in suburban Brookville; and Southampton Graduate Campus, by the sea in Southampton. Its regional campuses, primarily offering master's degrees, are in Rockland and Westchester counties and Brentwood, Long Island, and it operates extension sites at some of America's largest corporations and the United States Military Academy at West Point. The University is actively engaged in continuing education, community service, consulting and cultural outreach. It is the nation's eighth-largest independent university, with nearly 30,000 students, 700 full-time faculty members, an annual operating budget of $308 million, NCAA Division I and II athletic teams, and more than 100,000 living alumni. It bestows the annual George Polk Awards in journalism and is home of Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and WPBX-FM and WCWP-FM, the Long Island University Public Radio Network.

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