Education
The city's public school system, managed by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest in the United States. Over one million students are taught in more than 1,200 separate primary and secondary schools. New York is also home to many major libraries, universities, and research centers.
There are also about 1,000 additional privately run secular and religious schools in New York. These include some of the most prestigious private schools in the United States. About 30,000 city students attend private schools in New York, compared with about 1.1 million in the public system.
Much of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the life sciences. New York has the most post-graduate life sciences degrees awarded annually in the United States, 40,000 licensed physicians, and 127 Nobel laureates with roots in local institutions. The city receives the second-highest amount of annual funding from the National Institutes of Health among all U.S. cities. Major biomedical research institutions include Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University.
There are 594,000 university students in New York City, the highest number of any city in the United States. The City University of New York, the nation's third-largest public university system, provides post-secondary higher education in all five boroughs. There are also many private universities, including Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League university established in 1754 and the oldest educational institution in the state, and New York University, the largest private, non-profit university in the United States.
The New York Public Library is one of the largest public library systems in the country. Its Library for the Humanities research center has 39 million items in its collection, among them the first five folios of Shakespeare's plays, ancient Torah scrolls, and Alexander Hamilton's handwritten draft of the United States Constitution.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
