The nation's largest urban public university system, operating 25 campuses across all five boroughs including senior colleges, community colleges, and professional schools, providing affordable higher education to nearly 247,000 students. CUNY is the city's primary engine of upward mobility. It educates more than twice as many students as the entire Ivy League combined, disproportionately serving first-generation, immigrant, and low-income New Yorkers. When CUNY's budget gets cut, the ladder out of poverty gets shorter.
Spending
$3.48B
36,633 transactions →
Payroll
$576.8M
217,398 pay records →
Budget (Adopted)
$1.55B
$736.0M spent
Avg Salary
$49.1K
across 217,398 records
Did You Know
CUNY alumni include 13 Nobel Prize winners, a U.S. Secretary of State (Colin Powell), multiple Supreme Court justices, and Intel founder Andrew Grove -- all products of what was originally a free public university system.
| C M B FOR TRANSFER TO KEY | $2.44B |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE PS | $693.0M |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $101.2M |
| CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SENIOR COLLEGES | $58.2M |
| DORMITORY AUTHORITY STATE OF NY | $34.1M |
| ADJUNCT LECTURER (HOURLY) | 28,446 staff | $0 avg |
| COLLEGE ASSISTANT (NO LEAVE ACCRUAL) | 24,234 staff | $0 avg |
| PROFESSOR | 11,344 staff | $134.1K avg |
| ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (HOURLY) |
| 10,726 staff |
| $0 avg |
| ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | 9,057 staff | $112.3K avg |
Headcount
~15,000 full-time faculty and staff across all campuses, with thousands more adjunct instructors
Who It Serves
~247,000 students across 25 campuses, predominantly working-class and immigrant New Yorkers
Category
Education