Baruch College
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Baruch College is one of the constituent colleges comprising the City University of New York. Established in 1919, the college sits on the former site of the Free Academy (now City College of New York), which was founded in 1847 and was the first institution of free public higher education in the United States. Originally the City College's School of Business and Civic Administration, the school was renamed in honor of Bernard Baruch, a noted statesman and financier. In 1968, Baruch became an independent senior college of the City University.
Total enrollment at Baruch is over 15,000, including nearly 2,500 graduate students. Baruch is particularly noted for its Zicklin School of Business (the largest collegiate school of business in the U.S.) and its School of Public Affairs.
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Campus
Vertical Campus
Baruch College’s long-awaited 17-floor Vertical Campus opened in Fall 2001. Nearly a full city block at its base, 14 curving stories above ground (with an athletic facility—including a swimming pool—and performing arts center extending three stories below ground), the building brings together staff offices and most of the classroom space for Baruch’s two largest academic units: the Zicklin School of Business and the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. This physical union of the business and liberal arts programs supports the undergraduate business curriculum, which requires an arts and sciences foundation for the degree; the first-time proximity of the two schools also creates a host of new opportunities for multidisciplinary classes, programs, and initiatives.
Designed by the New York architecture firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox and Associates and constructed by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, the Vertical Campus also marks a new approach to an urban educational facility. With nearly 800,000 square feet of space to work with, planners at Baruch have attempted in an urban setting to create the sense of open space and quadrangle design that characterizes the typical ex-urban college campus. Thus, a great deal of space has been given over to three stacked atria, one rising from the ground floor to the fifth floor, with a glass curtain wall facing Baruch’s Information and Technology Building to the north, across Bernard Baruch Way; another, wider atrium rising above that, from the fifth to the eighth floors; and a third, against the southern wall of the building, that rises from the eighth to the 13th floors with a dramatic glass curtain facing south and giving views of all of lower Manhattan.
This design allows sunlight from the southern exposure to filter diagonally from the top of the building and along the southern side down to the ground floor entrance lobby and exterior plazas on the north side, along Bernard Baruch Way.
At the same time, each floor is designed as a quadrangle, with a mix of classrooms, research space, and offices around the open atrium and with many open spaces and cul-de-sacs that are furnished with chairs and tables for conversation, reading, and hanging out between classes. This design unifies the teaching and research facilities as they would likely be encountered in a more traditional campus design.
Bert W. and Sandra Wasserman Trading Floor
An innovative instructional facility matched only by MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and a few other elite business schools. It offers students, faculty, and Wall Street professionals a first-rate simulated trading environment, complete with live data feeds, real-time market quotes, computerized trading models, and advanced network technology.Academic Centers
Among its many specialized centers and institutes, Baruch College houses several whose mission is to enhance scholarship and learning while addressing the needs of the business and civic community.
- Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business offers business owners and potential entrepreneurs one-on-one consulting help with Baruch faculty and business counselors. Its educational programs, networking opportunities, and an array of other services assist some 3,900 clients annually with their small and start-up business endeavors.
- Baruch Center for Integrity in Financial Reporting is a nexus of research and resources for scholars and the public, examining the broad impact on commerce and society of financial reporting standards and practices. The center aims to foster integrity in financial reporting through the sponsorship of conferences, research, and other scholarly activities touching on every aspect of the financial reporting process.
- Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute provides a foundation for education and research concerned with real estate and metropolitan development; its conferences serve as a unique resource for students and New York City real estate and development professionals.
- Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute works to integrate both academic and professional communication across the Baruch curriculum to ensure success in the classroom and the workplace. In addition, the institute supports advanced research and fosters relationships between communication experts from higher education and the business community.
- Center for the Study of Business and Government conducts empirical analysis of the underlying economic and social problems and trends that are frequently the subject of public policy.
- Baruch College Survey Unit conducts surveys on a broad range of programmatic and policy concerns, with a focus on New York City.
- Center for Transition and Leadership in Government was created by the School of Public Affairs to address the lack of institutional memory that is anticipated as a result of term limits for New York City’s elected officials. The center provides access to non-partisan policy research and sponsors forums led by past and current public officials to help aspiring City Council candidates deal with complex issues without first having to acquire years of on-the-job experience.
- Weissman Center for International Business sponsors numerous programs, conferences, and forums for students, faculty, and business professionals that enrich understanding of critical issues in international business and the global economy.
Baruch Alumni
Baruch alumni fill key positions in every sector of the city’s economy—corporate, business, civic, and nonprofit—and form a Who’s Who of influential leadership across the nation. To a degree unusual among public academic institutions, Baruch College is strongly endowed by a supportive and active group of alumni. Without their commitment, the College’s increasing level of excellence and outstanding reputation would not be possible.Zicklin School of Business
Zicklin School of Business is the largest collegiate school of business in the nation and the only CUNY unit that offers business programs accredited by the AACSB International: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The Zicklin School offers degree programs leading to the BBA, MBA, Executive MBA, MS, Executive MS in Finance, and the Baruch/Mt. Sinai MBA in Health Care Administration, which is accredited by the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Care Administration (ACEHSA). Among its exciting new initiatives is the Zicklin Full-time MBA program, which enrolls a select group of candidates whose credentials and average GMAT scores of 650 place them among the top students in the nation. The Zicklin School also offers a combined degree program in accountancy that meets the latest education requirements for the CPA exam and enables students to complete an undergraduate degree program of their choice and an MS in accountancy in five years. The Zicklin School houses the City University's PhD in business and offers a joint degree program leading to the JD/MBA degrees in conjunction with both Brooklyn Law School and The New York Law School.External link
