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{{Short description|Public college in New York City, New York}}
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 | name                   = Hunter College
 | image                  = Hunter College logo.svg
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 | former_names           = Female Normal and High School (1870–1888)<br />Normal College of the City of New York (1888–1914)<ref>{{cite web |title=Hunter College |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hunter-college |website=jwa.org |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>
 | latin_name             = 
 | motto                  = ''Mihi cura futuri'' ([[Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "The care of the future is mine"
 | accreditation          = [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education|MSCHE]]
 | tagline                = 
 | established            = {{start date and age|1870}}
 | type                   = [[Public university]]
 | endowment              = $135.8 million<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/hunter-college-2689 "CUNY – Hunter College"]. ''[[US News]]''.</ref>
 | administrative_staff   = 
 | president              = [[Nancy Cantor]]
 | provost                = Manoj Pardasani (interim)
 | students               = 22,538 (fall 2024)<ref> https://www2.hunter.cuny.edu/factbooks/2024/ </ref>
 | undergrad              = 16,289 (fall 2024)<ref> https://www2.hunter.cuny.edu/factbooks/2024/ </ref>
 | postgrad               = 5,169 (fall 2024)<ref> https://www2.hunter.cuny.edu/factbooks/2024/ </ref>
 | doctoral               = 
 | profess                = 
 | city                   = [[New York City]]
 | country                = United States
 | campus                 = Large city
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 | coordinates            = {{coord|40.768538|N|73.964741|W|source:dewiki_region:US-NY_type:edu|format=dms|display=title,inline}}
 | colors                 = Purple and gold<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/communications/repository/files/HC%20Identity%20Standards_2016.pdf#page=7 |title=Visual Identity Standards Reference Guide |year=2016 |page=7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116171110/http://hunter.cuny.edu/communications/repository/files/HC%20Identity%20Standards_2016.pdf#page=7 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |url-status=live |publisher=Hunter College, City University of New York |format=PDF |quote=Hunter College has two official colors: purple (Hunter&nbsp;{{bracket|P}}urple) PMS&nbsp;267&nbsp;{{bracket|{{hash}}5f259f}} and yellow (Hunter&nbsp;Gold) PMS&nbsp;123&nbsp;{{bracket|{{hash}}ffc72a}}.}}</ref>
 | sports_nickname        = Hawks
 | sporting_affiliations = [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] – [[City University of New York Athletic Conference|CUNYAC]]
 | parent = [[City University of New York]]
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 | website                = {{URL|https://hunter.cuny.edu/}}
 | address                = 
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 | logo                   = HUNTER-LOGO.jpg
 | logo_size              = 185px
 | free_label = Newspaper
 | free = ''The Hunter Envoy''
}}

'''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]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/president |title=Office of the President – Hunter College |publisher=Hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

Hunter was founded in 1870 as a women's college; it first admitted male freshmen in 1946.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/realestate/20scap.html | work=The New York Times | first=Christopher | last=Gray | title=The Vestige of What Might Have Been | date=April 20, 2008}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/mission/ |title=Mission |publisher=Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

==History==
===Founding===
[[File:Normal College of Women 801201.png|thumb|left|New York Normal College seen from Park Avenue (1874); drawing from a photo by [[George G. Rockwood]]]]
Hunter College originates from the 19th-century movement for [[Normal school|normal school training for teachers]] which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the '''Female Normal and High School''', a [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]] established in New York City in 1870. It was founded by Thomas Hunter from [[Ardglass]] in [[County Down]], Ireland, who was an [[exile]] over his [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]] beliefs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farr |first1=Mary |title=Thomas Hunter |journal=Lecale Review |date=2009 |volume=7}}</ref> The Normal School was one of several institutions occupying a site that the New York City government had reserved for "institutions serving a public purpose".<ref name=":0" /> Hunter was president of the school during the first 37 years. The school was housed in an armory and saddle store at [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] and East [[4th Street (Manhattan)|Fourth Street]] in [[Manhattan]], was open to all qualified women, irrespective of race, religion or ethnic background, an exception in its day.

Created by the New York State Legislature, Hunter was deemed the only approved institution for those seeking to teach in New York City. The school incorporated an elementary and high school for [[gifted children]], where students practiced teaching. In 1887, a [[kindergarten]] was established as well. (Today, the [[Hunter College Elementary School|elementary school]] and the [[Hunter College High School|high school]] still exist at a different location, and are now called the Hunter College Campus Schools.)

[[File:Helen Campbell studying radio science at Hunter College LC-DIG-ggbain-24344.tif|thumb|Student Helen Campbell studying radio science in a program started at Hunter College in 1917 by the [[National League for Women's Service]] to train female radio operators during [[World War I]]]]

During Thomas Hunter's tenure as president of the school, Hunter became known for its impartiality regarding race, religion, ethnicity, financial or political favoritism; its pursuit of higher education for women; its high entry requirements; and its rigorous academics. The first female professor at the school, [[Helen Gray Cone]], was elected to the position in 1899.<ref>{{cite news|title=Young Women Graduated|date=June 23, 1899|work=The New York Times}}</ref> The college's student population quickly expanded, and the college subsequently moved uptown, in 1873, into a new red brick [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] structure facing Park Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=February 29, 2004 |title=Streetscapes/Hunter College on 68th Street and Park Avenue; Industrial-Style Main Building Raised Storm in 1940 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/realestate/streetscapes-hunter-college-68th-street-park-avenue-industrial-style-main.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> It was one of several public institutions built at the time on a [[Lenox Hill]] lot that had been set aside by the city for a park, before the creation of [[Central Park]].<ref>{{cite web |date=February 4, 1912 |title=Types of Artistic Manhattan Residences Predominate in Old Yorkville District |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/02/04/archives/article-19-no-title.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> After the park in Lenox Hill was canceled, the plots were leased to institutions like Hunter College.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=October 12, 2012 |title=Seventh Regiment Armory/Streetscapes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/realestate/seventh-regiment-armory-streetscapes-a-battle-ax-gets-a-face-lift.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>

In 1888, the school was incorporated as a college under the statutes of New York State, taking on the name '''Normal College of the City of New York''', with the power to confer [[Bachelor of Arts]] degrees. This led to the separation of the school into two "camps": the "Normals", who pursued a four-year course of study to become licensed teachers, and the "Academics", who sought non-teaching professions and the Bachelor of Arts degree. After 1902 when the "Normal" course of study was abolished, the "Academic" course became standard across the student body.

===Expansion===
In 1913, the east end of the building, housing the elementary school, was replaced by Thomas Hunter Hall, a new limestone [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] building facing [[Lexington Avenue]] and designed by [[C. B. J. Snyder]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=2008-04-20 |title=The Vestige of What Might Have Been |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/realestate/20scap.html |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The following year the Normal College became Hunter College in honor of its first president. At the same time, the college was experiencing a period of great expansion as increasing student enrollments necessitated more space. The college reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[Staten Island]]. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any municipally financed college in the United States. In 1930, Hunter's Brooklyn campus merged with [[City College of New York|City College]]'s Brooklyn campus, and the two were spun off to form [[Brooklyn College]].

[[File:Hunter College NY WAVES camp opening 1943.JPG|thumb|left|Opening of the [[United States Navy|Navy]] recruit camp for [[Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service|WAVES]] at Bronx Campus, February 8, 1943]]

In February 1936, a fire destroyed the 1873 Gothic building facing Park Avenue.<ref>{{cite news |date=1936-02-14 |title=FIRE SWEEPS UNIT OF HUNTER COLLEGE; Destroys Large Part of Original Building at Park Avenue and Sixty-ninth Street. WATCHMAN GIVES ALARM Traffic Is Diverted by Night Blaze, Which Attracts Crowds of Spectators. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/02/14/archives/fire-sweeps-unit-of-hunter-college-destroys-large-part-of-original.html?searchResultPosition=3 |access-date=2024-03-26 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Plans for a new building were announced in 1937,<ref>{{cite news |date=1937-10-16 |title=HUNTER BUILDING TO RISE 16 STORIES; Preliminary Plans Submitted for Structure to Replace One Razed by Fire 'LITTLE THEATRE' IN IT Auditorium to Seat 2,500 Also Included in Set-Up of the New College Will Face Sixty-ninth Street Space for Laboratories |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/16/archives/hunter-building-to-rise-16-stories-preliminary-plans-submitted-for.html?searchResultPosition=2 |access-date=2024-03-26 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> and by 1940 the [[Public Works Administration]] replaced it with the [[Modern architecture|Modernist]] north building, designed by [[Shreve, Lamb & Harmon]] along with [[Harrison & Abramovitz|Harrison & Fouilhoux]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/north-building-hunter-college-new-york-ny/|title=Hunter College: North Building - New York NY|accessdate=July 1, 2023}}</ref>

The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the [[Second World War]], Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the [[United States Navy]] who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as [[WAVES]] and [[SPARS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/sec4.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070116173128/http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/sec4.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 16, 2007 |title=Free A Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II (Early Training: Holyoke and Hunter) |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/programs/grad/187.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830080929/http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/programs/grad/187.htm|url-status=dead|title=History of Lehman College|archive-date=August 30, 2010}}</ref>

In 1943, [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] dedicated a town house at [[Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House|47–49 East 65th Street]] in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for Eleanor and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] prior to the latter's presidency.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=2003-03-18 |title=Fixing Monument To Mother-in-Law; Sara Delano Roosevelt Ruled Home of Franklin and Eleanor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/nyregion/fixing-monument-mother-law-sara-delano-roosevelt-ruled-home-franklin-eleanor.html |access-date=2024-03-26 | newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The [[Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College]] opened at that location in fall 2010 as an academic center hosting prominent speakers.

===CUNY era===
[[File:West Building Hunter College CUNY.jpg|thumb|right|The West (seen here in the background) and East Buildings were constructed in 1981–86 – following a delay due to the [[1975 New York City fiscal crisis]] – and were designed in the [[Modernist architecture|Modernist style]] by [[Ulrich Franzen]] & Associates. Skyways connect all the buildings.]]

Hunter became the [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]] of the municipal system, and in the 1950s, when [[City College of New York|City College]] became coeducational, Hunter started admitting men to its [[Bronx]] campus. In 1964, the [[Manhattan]] campus began admitting men also.<ref>[https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/documents/archives/finding_aids/Selected_History_of_Hunter_College_Collection.pdf#page=4 https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/documents/archives/finding_aids/Selected_History_of_Hunter_College_Collection.pdf]</ref> The Bronx campus subsequently became [[Lehman College]] in 1968.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1968-07-02 |title=Hunter's Bronx Unit Now Lehman College |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/07/02/archives/hunters-bronx-unit-now-lehman-college.html |access-date=2024-05-07 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In 1968–1969, Black and Puerto Rican students struggled to get a department that would teach about their history and experience. These and supportive students and faculty expressed this demand through building take-overs, rallies, etc. In Spring 1969, Hunter College established Black and Puerto Rican Studies (now called Africana/Puerto Rican and Latino Studies). An "[[open admissions]]" policy initiated in 1970 by the City University of New York opened the school's doors to historically underrepresented groups by guaranteeing a college education to any and all who graduated from NYC high schools. Many African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Puerto Ricans, and students from the developing world made their presence felt at Hunter, and even after the end of "open admissions" still comprise a large part of the school's student body. As a result of this increase in enrollment, Hunter opened new buildings on Lexington Avenue during the early 1980s. In further advancing Puerto Rican studies, Hunter became home to the [[Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños]] ("Center for Puerto Rican Studies" or simply "Centro") in 1982.

In 2006, Hunter became home to the [[Bella Abzug]] Leadership Institute, which has training programs for young women to build their leadership, public speaking, business and advocacy skills.

==Campuses==
===Main campus===
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[[File:Hunter College bridge.jpg|thumb|right|Bridges between the East and West Buildings, the subway entrance, and Tony Smith's ''Tau'']]
Hunter College is anchored by its main campus at East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, a modern complex of three towers – the East, West, and North Buildings – and Thomas Hunter Hall, all interconnected by skywalks. The institution's official street address is 695 [[Park Avenue]], New York, NY 10065. The address is based on the North Building, which stretches from 68th to 69th Streets along Park Avenue.

The main campus is situated two blocks east of [[Central Park]], near many New York cultural institutions including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the [[Asia Society]] Museum, and the [[Frick Collection]]. The [[New York City Subway]]'s [[68th Street–Hunter College station]] ({{NYCS trains|Lexington local day}}) on the [[IRT Lexington Avenue Line]] is directly underneath, and serves the entire campus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-16 |title=68th Street Campus Map {{!}} Hunter College |url=https://hunter.cuny.edu/about/campus-information/68th-street-campus/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Hunter College {{!}} |language=en}}</ref> Adjacent to the staircase to the station, in front of the West Building, sat an iconic Hunter sculpture, [[Tau (1/3)|''Tau'']], created by late Hunter professor and artist [[Tony Smith (sculptor)|Tony Smith]].

The main campus is home to the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education. It features numerous facilities that serve not only Hunter, but the surrounding community, and is well known as a center for the arts. The Assembly Hall, which seats more than 2,000, is a major performance site; the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, a 675-seat [[proscenium theatre]], has over 100,000 visitors annually and hosts over 200 performances each season; the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall is a fully equipped concert space with 148 seats; the Frederick Loewe Theatre, a 50 x {{convert|54|ft|m|adj=on}} black box performance space is the site of most department performances; and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery hosts professionally organized art exhibits.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/thearts.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717201606/http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/thearts.shtml|url-status=dead|title="The Arts at Hunter", January 4, 2008|archive-date=July 17, 2011}}</ref>

Students have access to specialized learning facilities at the main campus, including the Dolciani Mathematics Learning Center, the Leona and Marcy Chanin Language Center, and the Physical Sciences Learning Center. Hunter has numerous research laboratories in the natural and [[biomedical]] sciences. These labs accommodate post-docs, PhD students from the CUNY Graduate School, and undergraduate researchers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://score.hunter.cuny.edu/ |title="Hunter College Score Program", December 1, 2007 |publisher=Score.hunter.cuny.edu |date=January 15, 2014 |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

College sports and recreational programs are served by the Hunter Sportsplex, located below the West Building.<ref name="About Hunter: In Brief, 12/1/07">{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/inbrief.shtml |title="About Hunter: In Brief", December 1, 2007 The Sportsplex, a major athletics center in the metropolitan area, is built entirely underground and is the deepest building in New York City. It features numerous competition and practice facilities, including multiple gymnasiums, racquetball courts, a weight room, locker areas, a training room, Hall of Fame, showcases, classrooms, and offices. December 1, 2007 |publisher=Hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

===Satellite campuses===
Hunter has two satellite campuses. The Silberman School of Social Work Building, located on Third Avenue between East 118th and East 119th Streets, houses the School of Social Work, the School of Urban Public Health, and the Brookdale Center on Aging. The Brookdale Campus, located at East 25th Street and First Avenue, houses the [[Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing]], the Schools of the Health Professions, the Health Professions Library and several research centers and computer labs.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu/reslife/reslife_brookdale.htm |title="Brookdale Campus", December 2, 2007 |publisher=Studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

The Brookdale Campus was the site of a dormitory that closed in 2025 and was replaced by the 51st Street and 79th Street dormatories.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Housing |url=https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/students/campus-life/residence-life/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=Hunter College |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Poblete |first=Gabriel |date=2024-04-29 |title=No New Dorm Plan as CUNY Prepares to Raze Hundreds of Affordable Student Rooms |url=https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/04/29/cuny-dorms-brookdale-student-housing/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=THE CITY - NYC News |language=en-US}}</ref> Prior to the opening of City College's new "Towers," the Brookdale complex was the City University's only dormitory facility. In October 2022, New York Governor [[Kathy Hochul]] and New York City Mayor [[Eric Adams]] announced that the Brookdale Campus would be replaced by the CUNY Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC), with construction set to begin in 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-17 |title=Hunter students question fate of affordable campus housing with dorm slated for demolition |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/10/hunter-students-question-fate-affordable-campus-housing-dorm-slated-demolition/378545/ |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=City & State NY |language=en}}</ref> The {{Convert|2000000|ft2|adj=on}} campus is planned to contain space for Hunter College, [[Borough of Manhattan Community College]], and the [[CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=Aidan |date=2023-11-17 |title=Mayor, Governor announce details of $1.6 billion Kips Bay life sciences hub {{!}} amNewYork |url=https://www.amny.com/news/mayor-1-6-billion-kips-bay-life-sciences-hub/ |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.amny.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Other facilities===
The institution owns and operates property outside of its main campuses, including the MFA Building at 205 Hudson, [[Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House|Roosevelt House]], Baker Theatre Building, Silberman School of Social Work, and the Hunter College Campus Schools. The MFA Studio Art program was formerly run out of a building on West 41st Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. It was a {{convert|12000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} industrial space that students converted to studio space for the college's BFA and MFA program. The current building in Tribeca now houses the Studio Art and Integrated Media Arts MFA program, and Art History MA program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/graduate-programs/arts/index.html|title=205 Hudson |access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref> Roosevelt House, located on East 65th Street, is the historic family home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Hunter's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute is now located there, honoring the public policy commitments of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/|title=Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College |publisher=Roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> Baker Theatre Building located on 149 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065 is the home of Hunter's Department of Theatre thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Hunter trustee Patty Baker ’82 and her husband, Jay.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hunter.cuny.edu/news/patty-and-jay-baker-donate-15-million-to-hunter-funding-new-theatre-building/|title=Patty and Jay Baker's Gift of $15M Funds Baker Hall {{!}} Hunter College|website=hunter.cuny.edu|date=January 27, 2014|access-date=November 9, 2019}}</ref> The Silberman School of Social Work is located between 118th and 119th streets on 3rd Avenue. The Hunter Campus Schools—[[Hunter College High School]] and [[Hunter College Elementary School]]—are publicly funded schools for the intellectually gifted. Located at East 94th Street, the Campus Schools are among the nation's oldest and largest elementary and secondary schools of their kind.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/capital_budget/pdfs/2007-08Request/hunter_campus_schools_07_08.pdf|title=Borough President and City Council Capital Funding Requests FY 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329070240/http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/capital_budget/pdfs/2007-08Request/hunter_campus_schools_07_08.pdf|archive-date=March 29, 2012|access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

===Libraries===
The Leon & Toby Cooperman Library entrance is located on the third-floor walkway level of the East Building. The Cooperman Library has individual and group study rooms, special facilities for students with disabilities, networked computer classrooms and labs for word processing and internet access.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leon & Toby Cooperman {{!}} Hunter College Libraries |url=https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/leon-toby-cooperman-library |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=library.hunter.cuny.edu}}</ref>

The Social Work & Urban Public Health Library (SWUPHL), located on the main floor of the Silberman Building, serves the academic and research needs of the Silberman School of Social Work as well as Hunter's Urban Public Health, Community Health Education, and Nutrition programs.

Silberman patrons have remote access to the Hunter Libraries electronic collections which include 250,000 full-text eBooks, 100,000 eJournals, and over 300 electronic databases. SWUPHL is a pick-up/drop-off site for the CUNY intra-library loan system (CLICS) that facilitates the sharing of books between all the CUNY libraries. In addition, SWUPHL participates in the national interlibrary loan program for academic libraries. These reciprocal agreements allow the patrons of SWUPHL extensive access to a multitude of collections.

The SWUPHL Faculty provide drop-in and by-appointment reference services, research consultations, classroom and individual instruction. The library has six group study rooms, group and silent study areas, desktop computers, a laptop computer loan program, photocopiers, printing stations, and a book scanner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Social Work & Urban Public Health Library {{!}} Hunter College Libraries |url=https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/schools-social-work-public-health |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=library.hunter.cuny.edu}}</ref>

The Judith and Stanley Zabar Art Library, dedicated in December 2008, was made possible through the support of Judith Zabar, a member of the Hunter College Class of 1954, and her husband Stanley Zabar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zabar Art Library {{!}} Hunter College Libraries |url=https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/zabar-art-library |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=library.hunter.cuny.edu}}</ref>

==Public transit access==
The closest subway station to Hunter College is its namesake: [[68th Street-Hunter College station|68th Street-Hunter College]], which is served by the [[6 (New York City Subway service)|6]] train. Hunter can also be reached with the {{NYC bus link|M66|M98|M101|M102|M103|prose=y}} buses.<ref>{{cite NYC bus map|M}}</ref>

==Academics==
Hunter is organized into four schools: The School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of the Health Professions, and the School of Social Work. The institution had an undergraduate admissions acceptance rate of 54% in Fall 2025.<ref name="usnews">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/cuny-hunter-college-2689|title=CUNY--Hunter College|magazine=US News|access-date=April 16, 2026}}</ref> Hunter offers over 120 undergraduate programs. These include 5 undergraduate certificates, 73 BA degree programs, 10 BS degree programs, and 25 bachelor's-to-master's joint degree programs. The college also offers over 100 graduate programs.

Students at Hunter may study within the fields of fine arts, the humanities, the language arts, the sciences, the social sciences, and the applied arts and sciences, as well as in professional areas in accounting, education, health sciences, and nursing. Regardless of area of concentration, all undergraduate Hunter students are encouraged to have broad exposure to the liberal arts; Hunter was one of the first colleges in the nation to pass a 12-credit curriculum requirement for [[Pluralism (political philosophy)|pluralism]] and [[Diversity (politics)|diversity]] courses.<ref name="About Hunter: In Brief, 12/1/07"/>

Hunter's Asian American Studies Program was started in 1993 by Dr. [[Peter Kwong (academic)|Peter Kwong]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-12 |title=About Asian American Studies |url=https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/artsci/aasp/about/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=Hunter College |language=en}}</ref> Due to lack of institutional support, the program became effectively defunct in 2006, prompting students to organize a campaign called Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian American Studies at Hunter (CRAASH). Their efforts allowed the program to continue, although efforts for a full department and the option for a major still continue in 2026.<ref>"[https://cdha.cuny.edu/collections/show/322 The Fight for Asian American Studies at Hunter College]." ''CUNY Digital History Archive''. American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.</ref>

===Honors programs===
Hunter offers several honors programs, including the Macaulay Honors College and the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. The [[Macaulay Honors College]], a CUNY-wide honors program, supports the undergraduate education of academically gifted students. University Scholars benefit from a full tuition scholarship (up to the value of in-state tuition only as of fall 2013, effectively restricting it to NY state residents), personalized advising, early registration, access to internships, and study abroad opportunities. All scholars at Hunter are given the choice of either a free dormitory room at the Brookdale Campus for two years or a yearly stipend.<ref>[http://macaulay.cuny.edu "Macaulay Honors College at CUNY-Hunter College"] December 1, 2007</ref>

The Thomas Hunter Honors Program offers topical interdisciplinary seminars and academic concentrations designed to meet students’ individual interests. The program is open to outstanding students pursuing a BA and is orchestrated under the supervision of an Honors Council. It can be combined with, or replace, a formal departmental major/minor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/honors/ |title="Thomas Hunter Honors Program", December 1, 2007 |publisher=Hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

Hunter offers other honors programs, including Honors Research Training Programs and Departmental Honors opportunities, The Freshmen Honors Scholar Programs inclusive of the Athena Scholar program, Daedalus Scholar program, Muse Scholar program, Nursing Scholar program, Roosevelt Scholar program, and the Yalow Scholar program.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/scholars |title=Honors Scholar Programs at Hunter College |publisher=Hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref>

In addition to these honors programs, several honors societies are based at Hunter, including [[Phi Beta Kappa]] (PBK). A small percentage of Hunter students are invited to join Hunter's Nu chapter of PBK, which has existed at the college since 1920.<ref name="About Hunter: In Brief, 12/1/07"/>

==Student life==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Undergraduate demographics as of fall 2023<ref>{{cite web |title= College Scorecard: CUNY Hunter College|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?190594-CUNY-Hunter-College|website=College Scorecard |publisher=[[United States Department of Education]] |access-date=July 27, 2025}}</ref>
|-
! Race and ethnicity
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|32|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|31|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|18|%|2||background:cyan}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|11|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[International student]]
|align=right| {{bartable|4|%|2||background:#008080}}
|-
| [[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races]]
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:violet}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|56|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|44|%|2||background:black}}
|}

===Student governance===
The Hunter College student body is governed by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate Student Association (GSA),.

===Clubs===
Hunter offers approximately 150 clubs. These organizations range from the academic to the athletic, and from the religious/spiritual to the visual and performing arts. There are clubs based on specific interests, such as Russian Club, which offers a look at Russian life and culture, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an organization whose vision is to "transform students and faculty, renew the campus, and develop world changers."<ref>{{cite web|author=Maritza |url=http://ivcfnynj.org/ |title=InterVarsity Christian Fellowship: Home Page |publisher=Ivcfnynj.org |date=February 21, 2014 |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

===Fraternities and sororities===
'''National – social'''
*[[Alpha Epsilon Pi]] (ΑΕΠ) – international social fraternity
*[[Kappa Sigma]] (ΚΣ) – international social fraternity
*[[Delta Sigma Theta]] (ΔΣΘ) – international social sorority
*[[Phi Sigma Sigma]] (ΦΣΣ) – international social sorority

'''National – service'''
*[[Alpha Phi Omega]] (ΑΦΩ) – national co-educational service fraternity

'''Local – social'''
*Alpha Sigma (ΑΣ) – local social sorority
*Nu Phi Delta (ΝΦΔ) – local multicultural social fraternity

'''Local – service'''
*Theta Phi Gamma (ΘΦΓ) – local cultural and philanthropic sorority
*Epsilon Sigma Phi (ΕΣΦ) – local multicultural service sorority
*Zeta Phi Alpha (ΖΦΑ) – local service sorority

'''Non-Greek'''
*Gamma Ce Upsilon (ΓCΥ) – non-Greek Latina sorority
*Rho Psi Eta (ΡΨΙ) – pre-health sorority

===Student media===
Hunter College has a campus radio station, WHCS, which once broadcast at 590AM but is now solely online.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://whcsradio.com/|title=WHCS Radio|accessdate=April 21, 2025}}</ref> ''The Envoy'' is the main campus newspaper, published bi-weekly during the academic year. Its literary and art magazine ''The Olivetree Review'' offers opportunities for publishing student prose, poetry, drama, and art.{{efn|See: {{cite web|url=http://www.theolivetreereview.com/p/about.html|title=The Olivetree Review: About|website=theolivetreereview.com |access-date=August 18, 2015}}}} Other publications include ''Culture Magazine'' (fashion and lifestyle),{{efn|See: {{cite web|url=http://cult-mag.tumblr.com/|title=cult. magazine |access-date=August 18, 2015|via=[[tumblr.com]]}}}} ''Hunted Hero Comics'' (comics and graphic stories),{{efn|See archive of http://www.huntedherocomics.com at {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910100954/http://www.huntedherocomics.com/ |date=September 10, 2015}}}} ''The Photographer's Collective'' (photography),{{efn|See http://www.photographerscollectiveofhuntercollege.com/}} ''Nursing Student Press'' (medical news and articles), Spoon University (culinary online publication), ''Psych News'' (psychology),{{efn|See http://hunterpsych.com/}} ''The Wistarion'' (yearbook), ''SABOR'' (Spanish language and photography/now defunct), ''Revista De La Academia'' (Spanish language/now defunct), the ''Islamic Times'' (now defunct), ''Political Paradigm'' (political science/now defunct), ''Hakol'' (Jewish interest/now defunct), and ''Spoof'' (humor/now defunct).<ref>* {{cite web|url=http://studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu/sa/sa_clubs_media.htm |title=Student Activities: Media |publisher=Studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}
*{{cite web|url=http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/old/sites/default/files/pdf/finding_aids/Hunter_College_Student_Clubs-Organizations_and_Publications_Collection-1911_1915-2010.pdf|title=Hunter College Student Clubs, Organizations and Publications Collection 1871–2014 Finding Aid|publisher=Hunter College Library|year=2014|access-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref>

Past publications also include ''The WORD''<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524033341/http://hunterword.com/ |archive-date=May 24, 2013|url=http://theword.hunter.cuny.edu/ |title=The Word |publisher=Theword.hunter.cuny.edu |date=October 16, 2007 |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> (news) and ''Hunter Anonymous''.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212025726/http://www.hunteranonymous.org/ |archive-date=December 12, 2008|url=http://www.hunteranonymous.org/ |title=Hunter Anonymous |publisher=Hunter Anonymous |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>

===Athletics===
Hunter is a member of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) and competes at the [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] level.<ref name="All About Athletics, 12/1/07">{{Cite web|url=https://www.huntercollegeathletics.com/|title=Hunter College Hawks - Hunter College|website=www.huntercollegeathletics.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/about/colleges/hunter.html|title=Hunter College|date=July 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713000431/http://www1.cuny.edu/about/colleges/hunter.html|archive-date=July 13, 2007}}</ref>

The mascot is the Hawks. Hunter plays in the [[City University of New York Athletic Conference]].

The basketball, volleyball and wrestling teams play at the [[Hunter Sportsplex]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huntercollegeathletics.com/sports/2008/1/8/sportsplex.aspx?id=14|title=Hunter Sportsplex|publisher=huntercollegeathletics.com|access-date=April 2, 2019}}</ref>

==Manhattan/Hunter College Science High School==
As a partnership with the [[New York City Department of Education]], the [[Manhattan/Hunter College High School for Sciences]] (not to be confused with [[Hunter College High School]]) was opened in 2003 on the campus of the former [[Martin Luther King, Jr. High School (New York)|Martin Luther King, Jr. High School]] on the [[Upper West Side]]. Unlike Hunter's campus schools, Hunter Science does not require an entrance exam for admission.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031207032645/http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=1257 Manhattan/Hunter College High School for Science] at InsideSchools.org.</ref>

==Notable alumni==
{{main|List of Hunter College people}}
{{alumni|date=August 2023}}
{{Excessive examples|section|date=August 2025}}

===Arts===
This list covers alumni in visual, musical, and performing arts.

{{colbegin}}
*[[Barbara Adrian]] – artist
*[[Robert Altman (photographer)|Robert Altman]] – photographer
*[[Martina Arroyo]] – opera singer
*[[Firelei Báez]] – visual artist
*[[Crackhead Barney]] – performance artist
*[[Robert Barry (artist)|Robert Barry]] (born 1936) – [[conceptual art]]ist<ref>Genocchio, Benjamin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/nyregion/a-career-built-on-exploring-the-boundaries-of-art.html "A Career Built on Exploring the Boundaries of Art"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 30, 2003. Retrieved December 6, 2009. "When, in 1974, he took up residence in Teaneck, with his wife and two sons, he was a young artist and lecturer at Hunter College in New York."</ref>
*[[Katherine Behar]] – artist (performance)
*[[Aisha Tandiwe Bell]] – artist (mixed media)
*[[Daniel Bozhkov]] – artist (painter, performance)
*[[Vivian E. Browne]] – artist (painter)
*[[Jules de Balincourt]] – artist (painter)
*[[Roy DeCarava]] – artist (photographer)
*[[Jacqueline Donachie]] – [[contemporary art]]ist
*[[Cheryl Donegan]] – contemporary artist
*[[Echo Eggebrecht]] – contemporary artist
*[[Arthur Elgort]] – fashion photographer
*[[Gabriele Evertz]] – contemporary artist (painter)
*[[Omer Fast]] – artist (video, film)
*[[Denise Green]] – artist (painter)
*[[Wade Guyton]] – artist (painter)
*[[Minna Harkavy]] – sculptor
*[[Kim Hoeckele]] – artist
*[[Louise E. Jefferson]] – artist, graphic designer
*[[Jessica Kairé]] – installation artist
*[[Mel Kendrick]] – artist (sculptor, printmaking)
*[[Kathleen Kucka]] – artist (painter)
*[[Katerina Lanfranco]] – artist (painter, sculptor)
*[[Terrance Lindall]] – artist (surrealist)
*[[Nick Mangano]] – stage actor and director
*[[Monica McKelvey Johnson]] – artist (comics) and curator
*[[Robert Morris (artist)|Robert Morris]] – artist (sculptor)
*[[Bess Myerson]] (1924–2014) – Miss America 1945
*[[Doug Ohlson]] (1936–2010) – abstract artist<ref>Smith, Roberta. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/arts/design/25ohlson.html "Doug Ohlson, Painter of Vivid Abstracts, Dies at 73"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 23, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.</ref>
*[[Danielle Orchard]] – artist (painter) 
*[[Roselle Osk]] – artist
*[[Ruth Pastine]] – artist (painter)
*[[Paul Pfeiffer (artist)|Paul Pfeiffer]] – artist (video)
*[[William Powhida]] – artist (painter)
*[[Henning Rübsam]] – choreographer and dancer
*[[Abbey Ryan]] – artist (painter)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/communications/pressroom/news/o-the-oprah-magazine-features-painter-abbey-ryan/|title=O, The Oprah Magazine, Features Hunter MFA Alumna Abbey Ryan – Hunter College|access-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref>
*[[Lenny Schultz]] – comedian, gym teacher
*[[Claire Seidl]] – artist
*[[Sally Sheinman]] – artist
*[[Henry Steiner]] – graphic designer
*[[Liz Story]] – artist (pianist)
*[[Robin Tewes]] – artist (painter)
*[[Awoiska van der Molen]] – photographer
*[[Cora Kelley Ward]] – artist (painter)
*[[Nari Ward]] – artist (sculptor)
*[[Beatrice Witkin]] – composer
*[[Esther Zweig]] – composer{{colend}}

===Business===
{{colbegin}}
*[[Leon G. Cooperman]] – chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors
*[[Lewis Frankfort]] – chairman and CEO, Coach, Inc.
{{colend}}

===Entertainment and sports===
{{colbegin}}
*[[Ellen Barkin]] – actress
*[[James Bethea]] – producer/television executive
*[[Inna Brayer]] – ballroom dance champion
*[[Edward Burns]] – actor
*[[Harry Connick, Jr.]] – actor, singer
*[[Bobby Darin]] – musician, singer, songwriter and actor
*[[Gemze de Lappe]] – dancer<ref>Willis, John (1977). ''[https://archive.org/details/danceworld76newy/page/176/mode/2up?q=%22de+lappe+gemze%22 Dance World 1976]''. New York: Crown Publishers. p.&nbsp;176. {{ISBN|9780517526590}}.</ref>
*[[Ruby Dee]] (1945) – Oscar-nominated actress and civil rights activist
*[[Vin Diesel]] – actor
*[[Grete Dollitz]] (1946) – radio presenter and guitarist
*[[Hugh Downs]] – television host
*[[Nikolai Fraiture]] – musician and bassist for [[the Strokes]]
*[[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]] – actor, producer
*[[Wilson Jermaine Heredia]] – [[Tony Award]]-winning actor
*[[Alice Minnie Herts]] – founded Children's Educational Theatre in 1903
*[[Jake Hurwitz]] – web comedian and actor
*[[Richard Jeni]] – comedian
*[[The Kid Mero]] – former co-host of [[Viceland]]'s ''[[Desus & Mero (2016 TV series)|Desus & Mero]]'' and former co-host of [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]'s ''[[Desus & Mero (2019 TV series)|Desus & Mero]]''
*[[Carlos Reginald King]] – executive producer
*[[Natasha Leggero]] – actress/comedian
*[[Leigh Lezark]] – member of DJ trio [[the Misshapes]]
*[[Janet MacLachlan]] (1955) – actress<ref name=latimes>{{cite news |title=PASSINGS: Simon MacCorkindale, Janet MacLachlan |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20101017-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 17, 2010 |access-date=October 27, 2010}}</ref>
*[[Charlotte Manson]] – radio actress<ref>{{cite news|date=August 20, 1947|title=Hamlet Led to the Mike|page=13|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57917343/charlotte-manson/|accessdate=August 23, 2020|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
*[[Quinn Marston]] – singer-songwriter of [[indie folk]]<ref name=twsD12xxfs>{{cite news |title=Quinn Marston |publisher=MineTRadio.com |quote=Marston ... earned a full ride scholarship to Hunter College |date=May 13, 2011 |url=http://minetradio.com/wordpress/?p=383 |access-date=July 8, 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402232547/http://minetradio.com/wordpress/?p=383 |archive-date=April 2, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=twsD28>{{cite news |title=TurnStyle Music Group Presents Quinn Marston |newspaper=Daily News (New York) |quote=July 22 7:30p at The National Underground, New York, NY |date=July 22, 2010 |url=http://events.nydailynews.com/new-york-ny/events/show/185183106-turnstyle-music-group-presents-quinn-marston |access-date=July 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007200349/http://events.nydailynews.com/new-york-ny/events/show/185183106-turnstyle-music-group-presents-quinn-marston |archive-date=October 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Deepti Naval]] – actress, filmmaker, writer and photographer
*[[Julianne Nicholson]] – actress on ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' (did not graduate)
*[[Rhea Perlman]] – actress
*[[Dascha Polanco]] – actress
*[[Florence Ravenel]] – actress<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/334254666/?clipping_id=146338455 "Rialto Players to Offer Mystery Play; Florence Ravenel"]. ''The Journal Times''. September 29, 1928. p.&nbsp;8. Retrieved May 4, 2024.</ref>
*[[Daniel Ravner]] – writer, speaker, cross media creator
*[[Judy Reyes]] – actress
*[[DJ Ricardo!]] – DJ/producer
*[[Margherita Roberti]] – opera singer
*[[Esther Rolle]] – actress
*[[Isabella Rossellini]] – actress
*[[Ron Rothstein]] – basketball coach
*[[Annette Sanders]] – jazz vocalist and studio singer<ref>Adderton, Donald V. (May 1, 1998). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/744375549/?clipping_id=115720606 "Sanders' jazzy sounds shine through on CD"]. ''Biloxi Sun Herald''. p.&nbsp;62. Retrieved January 5, 2022.</ref>
*[[Mirko Savone]] – actor and voice-over
*[[Jean Stapleton]] – actress
*[[Nick Valensi]] – musician and guitarist for [[the Strokes]]
*[[J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner]] – forensic psychologist/television personality
{{colend}}

===Government, politics, and social issues===
{{colbegin}}
*[[Rabab Abdulhadi]] (born 1955), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and academic director
*[[Bella Abzug]] (1942) – congresswoman (1971–1977), women's rights advocate, political activist
*[[Charles Barron]] – [[New York City Council]] member
*[[Keiko Bonk]] – activist, artist, politician, and highest-ranking elected [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]] member in the United States
*[[Eileen Bransten]] (1975) – justice, [[New York Supreme Court]]
*[[Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick]] (1963) – judge, first Hispanic woman named to the [[New York Court of Appeals|New York State Court of Appeals]]
*[[Helene S. Coleman]] (1925) – president, [[National Council of Jewish Women]]
*[[Robert R. Davila]] (1965) – president, [[Gallaudet University]] and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired
*[[Susan Elizabeth Frazier]] (1888) – first Black teacher at integrated schools in New York City
*[[Martin Garbus]] (1955) – First Amendment attorney
*[[Sonia Guiñansaca]] (2014) – poet, cultural organizer, and social justice activist
*[[Paula Harper]] – art historian
*[[Florence Howe]] (1950) – founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY
*[[Teresa Patterson Hughes]] – California state senator
*[[Mary Johnson Lowe]] (1951) – judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]]
*[[Roger Manno]] – Maryland politician
*[[Soia Mentschikoff]] (1934) – law professor who worked on the [[Uniform Commercial Code]]; first female partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president, [[Association of American Law Schools]]
*[[Thomas J. Murphy, Jr.]] (1973) – mayor, [[Pittsburgh]], 1994–2006
*[[Pauli Murray]] (1933) – first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N.O.W.
*[[Thomas P. Noonan, Jr.]] – [[Medal of Honor]]; [[United States Marine Corps]], Vietnam
*[[Antonia Pantoja]] – [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] community leader, founder of [[Boricua College]]
*[[Thomas S. Popkewitz]] – professor of curriculum theory, [[University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education]]
*[[Jeanette Reibman]] (1937) – Pennsylvania state representative and state senator
*[[Sandra Schnur]] – [[disability rights]] advocate
*[[Larry Seidlin]] – [[Broward County, Florida]] judge, presided over [[Anna Nicole Smith]]'s estate
*[[Donna Shalala]] – [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services]] under [[Bill Clinton]]; tenth president of Hunter College (1980–1988)
*[[John Timoney (police chief)|John Timoney]] – [[chief of police]] of Miami, Florida
*[[Karen Washington]] – political activist and community organizer
{{colend}}

===Literature and journalism===
{{colbegin}}
*[[Mohamad Bazzi]] – journalist
*[[Maurice Berger]] – cultural critic
*[[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] – writer
*[[Colin Channer]] – writer, musician, co-founder of Calabash International Literary Festival Trust
*[[Leopoldine Core]] – poet and short story writer
*[[Judith Crist]] – journalist, film critic, and professor of journalism.
*[[Joy Davidman]] – writer, poet
*[[Garance Franke-Ruta]] – journalist
*[[Martin Greif]] – writer, publisher, former managing editor of [[Time-Life Books]]
*[[Andrew Hubner]] – novelist
*[[Ada Louise Huxtable]] (1941) – writer, [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning architectural critic
*[[Colette Inez]] – poet, academic, [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim]], [[Rockefeller Fellowship|Rockefeller]], and two [[National Endowment for the Arts|NEA Fellowship]]s
*[[Frederick Joseph (author)|Frederick Joseph]] – poet, author, activist
*[[Phil Klay]] – writer, ''[[Redeployment (short story collection)|Redeployment]]''
*[[Bel Kaufman]] – teacher and author, best known for the 1965 novel ''[[Up the Down Staircase]]''
*[[Audre Lorde]] (1959) – poet, essayist, educator and activist
*[[Paule Marshall]] – author, [[MacArthur Fellow]] "genius grant," [[Dos Passos Prize for Literature]]
*[[Jenny B. Merrill]] (1871) – educator, author
*[[Lilian Moore]] – author of children's books, teacher and poet
*[[Bernadine Morris]] (1925–2018) – ''[[The New York Times]]'' fashion writer
*[[Melissa Plaut]] – author
*[[Sylvia Field Porter]] – economist/journalist, former financial editor of the ''[[New York Post]]''
*[[Carole Radziwill]] – journalist, author, and television personality
*[[Helen Reilly]] – mystery writer<ref>{{cite book|last=Bakerman|first=Jane S.|editor=John M. Reilly|title=Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers|section=Reilly, Helen|pages=1251–54|publisher=Macmillan|year=1980}}</ref>
*[[Sonia Sanchez]] – poet
*[[Elizabeth Mansfield|Paula Schwartz]] – novelist
*[[Augusta Huiell Seaman]] – writer
*[[Julie Shigekuni]] – novelist, professor at [[University of New Mexico]]
*[[Ned Vizzini]] – writer
{{colend}}

===Science and technology===
{{colbegin}}
*[[Henriette Avram]] – [[computer programmer]] and [[systems analyst]]
*[[Patricia Bath]] – pioneering [[ophthalmologist]]
*[[Patricia Charache]] – microbiologist and infectious disease specialist
*[[Mildred Cohn]] – biochemist, [[National Medal of Science]]
*[[Mary P. Dolciani]] – mathematician; influential in developing the basic modern method used for teaching algebra in the United States
*[[Mildred Dresselhaus]] – [[National Medal of Science]]; [[Institute Professor]] at [[MIT]]; professor, physics and [[electrical engineering]]
*[[Gertrude Elion]] – [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel laureate]], medicine; [[biochemist]]; [[National Medal of Science]] (1991); [[Lemelson-MIT Prize]] (1997); first woman, [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]]
*[[Charlotte Friend]] – virologist; member, [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]; discoverer, Friend Leukemia Virus and Friend erythroleukemia cells
*[[Erich Jarvis]] – professor of [[neurobiology]], [[Duke University Medical Center]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jarvislab.net/GenInfo/Jarvis%20regular%20CV%202006.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae Erich D. Jarvis |access-date=March 27, 2012 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327005756/http://www.jarvislab.net/GenInfo/Jarvis%20regular%20CV%202006.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Edna Kramer]] – mathematician and popularizer of mathematics 
*[[Richard M. Lerner]] (1966) – distinguished developmental psychologist
*[[Marilyn Levy]] – photographic chemist at [[Fort Monmouth]] 1953–1979
*[[Celia Maxwell]] – infectious disease physician and academic administrator
*[[Arlie Petters]] – professor of physics, mathematics, and business administration, [[Duke University]]
*[[Mina Rees]] – mathematician; first female president, [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] (1971)
*[[J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner]] – forensic psychologist/television personality
*[[Rosalyn Yalow]] – [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel laureate]], medicine; [[medical physicist]]; [[National Medal of Science]] (1988); [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] (1977)
{{colend}}

==Notable faculty==
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[[File:Jeannette Brown 0158 CHF2014 crop.JPG|thumb|[[Jeannette Brown]]]]
[[File:Nathan Englander 2017.jpg|thumb|[[Nathan Englander]]]]
[[File:Lieber-R-Lillian.jpg|thumb|[[Lillian Rosanoff Lieber]]]]
[[File:GaryShteyngart.jpg|thumb|[[Gary Shteyngart]]]]
[[File:Ruth Westheimer (10877).jpg|thumb|[[Dr. Ruth Westheimer]]]]

*[[David Adjmi]] – Tony Award-winning playwright
*[[Vishwa Adluri]] – professor of religion and philosophy
*[[Meena Alexander]] – poet
*[[Marimba Ani]] (Dona Richards) – afrocentric anthropologist, coined the term "Maafa" for African holocaust 
*[[Dora Askowith]] (1884–1958) – Lithuanian-born American author and historian
*[[Adele Bildersee]] (1883–1971) – dean, author, and professor of English
*[[Harry Binswanger]] (born 1944) – philosopher
*[[Emily Braun]] – Canadian-born art historian and curator
*[[Joyce Brothers]] (1927–2013) – psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer
*[[Jeannette Brown]] (born 1934) – chemist, historian, author
*[[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] – Australian novelist
*[[John Henrik Clarke]] – historian, pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies
*[[Neal L. Cohen]] – NYC health commissioner
*[[LaWanda Cox]] – historian
*[[Kelle Cruz]] – astrophysicist
*[[Roy DeCarava]] – photographer
*[[Mary P. Dolciani]] – mathematician
*[[Emil Draitser]] (born 1937) – author and professor of Russian
*[[Nathan Englander]] – novelist
*[[Philip Ewell]] – music theorist
*[[Stuart Ewen]] – historian and author
*[[Norman Finkelstein]] (born 1953) – political scientist and author
*[[Helen Frankenthaler]] – artist
*[[Godfrey Gumbs]] – physicist
*[[E. Adelaide Hahn]] – classicist and linguist
*[[Winifred Hathaway]] – advocate for blind education
*[[H. Wiley Hitchcock]] – musicologist
*[[Eva Hoffman]] – writer
*[[Tina Howe]] – playwright
*[[Julia Indichova]] – reproductive healthcare activist and author
*[[Victoria Johnson]] – associate professor of Urban Policy
*[[Indiana Jones (character)|Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr]] – fictional archaeologist and treasure hunter
*[[Julia Jones-Pugliese]] (1909–1993) – national champion fencer and fencing coach
*[[Alfred Kazin]] (1915–1998) – writer and literary critic 
*[[Francis Kilcoyne]] (died 1985) – third president of [[Brooklyn College]]
*[[John Kneller]] (1916–2009) – English-American professor and fifth president of [[Brooklyn College]]
*[[Bo Lawergren]] – physicist and musicologist
*[[Bogart Leashore]] – sociologist, social worker, and dean of Hunter College school of social work (1991–2003)<ref name=":5">{{Citation |last=Tolliver |first=Willie |title=Leashore, Bogart |date=2013-06-11 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Social Work |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.734 |isbn=978-0-19-997583-9}}</ref>
*[[Jan Heller Levi]] (born 1954) – poet
*[[Lillian Rosanoff Lieber]] (1886–1986) – Russian-American mathematician and author
*[[Audre Lorde]] (1934–1992) – poet
*[[Colum McCann]] – Irish novelist
*[[Marguerite Merington]] (1857–1951) – author
*[[Robert Motherwell]] – artist
*[[Carrie Moyer]] – artist
*[[Jeffrey T. Parsons]] – psychologist
*[[Leonard Peikoff]] – Canadian-American, [[Ayn Rand]]'s intellectual heir and founder of the [[Ayn Rand Institute]]
*[[Jennifer Raab]] – 13th president of Hunter College 
*[[Paul Ramirez Jonas]] – artist
*[[Mina Rees]] – mathematician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199807/memorial-rees.pdf|title=Mina Spiegel Rees (1902–1997)|website=ams.org|access-date=1 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[Blake Schwarzenbach]] – singer/guitarist of [[Jawbreaker (band)|Jawbreaker]] and [[Jets to Brazil]]
*[[Gary Shteyngart]] (born 1972) – Soviet-born American writer
*[[George Nauman Shuster]] – president of Hunter 1940–1960
*[[Lao Genevra Simons]] – mathematician and math historian
*[[Tom Sleigh]] – poet
*[[Tony Smith (sculptor)|Tony Smith]] – sculptor
*[[Leo Steinberg]] – Russian-born American art historian
*[[John Kennedy Toole]] – author
*[[Lionel Trilling]] (1905–1975) – literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher
*[[Edward P. Tryon]] – physicist<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tryon|first1=Edward P.|title=Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation|journal=Nature|volume=246|issue=5433|pages=396–397|doi=10.1038/246396a0|year=1973|bibcode=1973Natur.246..396T|s2cid=4166499}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Impey|first1=Chris|title=How it Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe|date=2012|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-08002-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/howitbegantimetr0000impe/page/411 411]|url=https://archive.org/details/howitbegantimetr0000impe/page/411}}</ref>
*[[Alice von Hildebrand]] – Belgian-born American philosopher
*[[Lydia Fowler Wadleigh]] – "lady superintendent" of the Normal School
*[[Nari Ward]] – artist
*[[Jacob Weinberg]] – pianist and composer<ref name="MA">Levin, Neil M. [http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/550/Weinberg,+Jacob Biography: Jacob Weinberg 1879–1956]. [[Milken Archive]]. Retrieved August 29, 2014.</ref> 
*[[Dr. Ruth Westheimer]] (Dr. Ruth; born 1928) – German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former [[Haganah]] sniper<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ampr/date/2019-08-21/segment/01|title=CNN.com - Transcripts|website=transcripts.cnn.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/dr-ruth-westheimer-kids-never-asked-for-relationship-advice/|title=Sex Therapist Dr. Ruth Admits She Is 'Glad' Her Kids 'Never' Asked Mom for Relationship Advice|date=September 8, 2019}}</ref>
*[[Blanche Colton Williams]] – professor of English literature and head of the English department
*[[Edwin Zarowin]] – track and field coach

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