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.