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CUNY Graduate Center
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365 5th AveNew York, NY 10079
Neighbourhoods: Midtown West, Midtown East
(212) 817-7000
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34 St - Herald Sq (B, D, F, M, N, Q, R)
33 St (4, 6, 6X)
28 St (N, R)
10 reviews for CUNY Graduate Center
10 reviews in English
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Review from Melissa F.
2/3/2012 1 Check-in Here
Yes, you'll have to get past security to get in, but once you're in it's a cool little building. how lucky that CUNY grads get to go to school on 5th ave.
This great building is RIGHT in midtown manhattan and a great place to study/work. I'm sad that I didn't accept grad school @ CUNY : (Listed in: February Food-Free Yelping…
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Review from Christina M. R.
Long Island, NY
4/22/2007
Once upon a time, I became really manic and decided it was a great idea to get a PhD. I delusionally began the application process for the English program at CUNY.
The English department was very helpful and friendly. When I went on campus, the security staff was helpful and friendly. Then I went to a bunch of different offices where they were not so helpful or friendly and gave me the runaround. I consider myself a semi-smart person, but how was I going to get my PhD if I couldn't remember my 11hundred digit student number? I sucked it up during this process, figuring that not everyone can be friendly and helpful.
Then I sat in class and found that if you don't consider a PhD program your full time life, then you don't belong there. My classmates were nice but also lived the Grad life. The professor was one of the smartest men I'll ever know and he was, surprisingly, very down to earth and sarcastic, just how I like em.
Alas and alack, the program isn't suitable for part time wannabe PhD people although it claims to be. I'll stick to maybe being famous enough one day to get an honorary PhD from some obscure college in Guam. -
Review from Allen R.
Chicago, IL
8/7/2007
This past autumn, I applied to 13 Clinical Psychology doctoral programs, one of them being at CUNY. I found the application process with them to be particularly confusing from start-to-finish. Their online application was difficult to use because using the Back button caused an error page to appear on the screen. Additionally, their easy-to-use document that was supposed to tell me what documents to send to which department (e.g., some documents go directly to the Psychology Department, while others go centrally to the Graduate Center first) was anything but easy-to-use.
A couple months later, I wanted to inform the department that I had accepted an offer from another school, and didn't want my application to be taken into consideration any longer. The webpage for the Psychology Department was poorly designed, and didn't contain any phone numbers. Several transfers after calling the main number at CUNY later, I was finally connected to the Clinical Psychology Advisor, who sounded surprised that I had actually reached her. Out of the blue, she told me in a fairly rude way that I had not been selected to be interviewed, and I told her that that was fine, and that I had already accepted an offer from Northwestern University. Nevertheless, I still received several letters from the Psychology Department following that phone call.
For a graduate program that charges almost $100 for the honor and privilege of applying to them, they should be much more organized, friendly, and efficient. -
Review from Justin L.
Brooklyn, NY
9/30/2010
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Review from Sarah J.
Brooklyn, NY
6/24/2010
I've been a doctoral student here for 3 going on 4 years. I teach in the CUNY system for a small stipend and thus don't have to pay the already low in-state tuition. The classes at the GC are great, and depending on what dept you're in you can take classes in ANY other dept, ANY other CUNY school, or through the consortium at Columbia, NYU, or Princeton. What a great educational opportunity this is!!!
Cons: I haven't taken out any loans but I am living hand to mouth. They recently gave grad students who teach a cheap, ok health insurance plan. Also, the whole process of how teaching positions are assigned and how people are selected is obscure, and there is too much favoritism, but then, that's all through higher ed so better get used to it. -
Review from Christina V.
Wappingers Falls, NY
8/26/2010 1 Check-in Here
A lot of individuals who have written reviews here might be doing the full-time doctorate thing because their program requires it. However, I might an anomaly and I will say that now because my program ONLY has classes at night (encourages you to work during the day because I am not stopping my life for school) and these classes are once a week. Super convenient. I personally live an hour north of the city by train. $26 roundtrip to get down to 'the city' and an 8 block south/2 block west walk from GCT. So why live in NYC and be a victim of it? If you're a NYS resident, you get cheap tuition so why live force yourself to live in the city and be a victim of the high rent and high taxes there? Move up to the hudson valley and you can still get to class in an hour or less. If you want to get there sooner and want to pay $1500/month for student housing, that's your problem lol.
My program is great, accommodating and very understanding of the real world. I really like how secure the place is, the location is great, and my program (the DPH in Epidemiology) is cutting edge. If you're a theoretical flake of a PhD student, it might not fit for you if you don't practically live there. But their 'practical' doctorates that actually apply to things in the real world, like my Doctor of Public Health degree program, works in this format. I love it! Much better than snobby Columbia or NYU...for a HUGE fraction of the price!!!Listed in: Edumacation in the Hudson…
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Review from Diana B.
New York, NY
Updated - 8/14/2008
Also good for a bathroom pit stop.
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Review from Dan T.
9/9/2010 6 Check-ins Here
Did some work here on the 9th floor, the only one in the building being used, pretty tragically. (I'd gladly camp out here for an indefinite amount of time for a small fee.) It's a pretty vast space with a respectable and reasonable cafe(teria). The Grad Center boasts a modern interior behind the majestic exterior, and though it's nowhere my favorite area food-wise after lunchtime, there are plentiful edible lunch options and it's certainly a convenient jaunt from Penn.
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Review from Lisha K.
Brooklyn, NY
6/11/2011
haaa I can't believe this has a yelp page! i like the non-bourgeois little GC, helps me live life comfortably while avoiding the fundamental disconnect of a worker, forced to give up self-development for development in the way the market says i should...
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Review from Colleen H.
Brooklyn, NY
8/12/2008
An ivory tower of learning in Midtown manhattan for ONLY graduate students, no hung-over freshmen, frat boys and sorority sisters! Seems great in theory, less wonderful in reality. As a PhD student, I've reconciled myself to the fact that CUNY is a means to an ends, not an experience to be savored. The Graduate center will save you from selling your kidneys to pay for your degree, it has a good academic reputation, and lots of slave-labor adjuncting jobs to go around. But it is not a place to feel connected. I mean the building was a department store, no windows, very caged-rat type of feeling. The professors are not very concerned with your well-being, you'll go around being a "what's his name again " student. The library is terribly small, but then again you're only paying a few grand so hey suck it up. You'll come out a decade later with a degree, gray with a beard down to your toes. But you'll have the degree.
