Former names | Female Normal and High School (1870–1888) Normal College of the City of New York (1888–1914)[1] |
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Motto | Mihi cura futuri (Latin) |
Motto in English | "The care of the future is mine" |
Type | Public university |
Established | 1870 |
Parent institution | City University of New York |
Accreditation | MSCHE |
Endowment | $135.8 million[2] |
President | Nancy Cantor |
Provost | Manoj Pardasani (interim) |
Undergraduates | 16,550 |
Postgraduates | 6,368 |
Location | , United States 40°46′07″N 73°57′53″W / 40.768538°N 73.964741°W |
Campus | Large city |
Newspaper | The Hunter Envoy |
Colors | Purple and gold[3] |
Nickname | Hawks |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division III – CUNYAC |
Website | hunter |
Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also administers Hunter College High School and Hunter College Elementary School.[4]
Hunter was founded in 1870 as a women's college; it first admitted male freshmen in 1946.[5] The main campus has been located on Park Avenue since 1873. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated Franklin Delano Roosevelt's and her former townhouse to the college; the building was reopened in 2010 as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.[6] The institution has a 57% undergraduate graduation rate within six years.[7]
Hunter College has two official colors: purple (Hunter [P]urple) PMS 267 [#5f259f] and yellow (Hunter Gold) PMS 123 [#ffc72a].