排名都是在80年代以后的事情。从毕业生获诺贝尔的个数来看,City College of New York 当时是稳当当的第一名。
Even today,[when?] no other public college has produced as many Nobel laureates who have studied and graduated with a degree from a particular public college (all graduated between 1935 and 1963).[34][circular reference][needs update] CCNY's official quote on this is "Nine Nobel laureates claim CCNY as their Alma Mater, the most from any public college in the United States."[35][36][needs update] This should not be confused with Nobel laureates who teach at a public university; UC Berkeley boasts 19.
City College of New York 在1970 年代实行的 “open enrollment”, 便开始走下坡路了,到了1999年取消了“open enrollment”,开始有所回升,但比1970年前的辉煌时代还差了不少的距离。
Beginning in 1970, the program opened doors to college to many who would not otherwise have been able to attend college. The increased enrollment of students, regardless of college preparedness, however, affected City College's and the university's academic reputation and strained New York City's financial resources。
City College began charging tuition in 1976. By 1999, CUNY's board of trustees voted to eliminate remedial classes at CUNY's senior colleges, thereby eliminating a central pillar of the policy of open admissions and effectively ending it.[48] Students who could not meet the academic entrance requirements for CUNY's senior colleges had to enroll in the system's community colleges, where they could prepare for an eventual transfer to one of the 4-year institutions. Since this decision, all CUNY senior colleges, especially CCNY, have begun to rise in prestige nationally, as shown by school rankings and incoming freshman GPA and SAT scores. The end of open admissions led to a change in CUNY's student demographics, with the number of Black and Hispanic students decreasing and the number of White Caucasian and Asian students increasing