Hunter University

An american public university and one of the constituent organization of the city university of New York is hunter university which is situated in the lenox hill neighborhood of Manhattans upper east side.In over one-hundred fields of study in five schools are those colleges which grants undergraduate and graduate degrees.

The five schools are: The School of Arts and Sciences, The School of Education, The School of Social Work, The Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, and the CONY School of Public Health at Hunter College.

Hunter College High School and Hunter College Elementary School are also administers of hunter university.In 1890 the hunter university was founded originally as women s college. One of the oldest public colleges of united state is hunter university.In 1873 the college assumed the

location of its main campus on Park Avenue.

In 1964 hunter began admitting men into its freshman class. Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated the former home of herself and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the college in 1943 ,in 2010 it was reopened 

as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.A partnership was announced with Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in 2012  with plans to develop a shared health sciences campus on East 74th Street.

Being men and women from 150 countries hunter has been noted for the diversity of its students. In the nation whose roster of alumni includes two female Nobel laureates in medicine hunter is only the college.

Among the nation's 377 best colleges and the school is consistently listed as a top producer of Fulbright Scholars hunter is ranked by the Princeton review. Hunter College has its origins for normal school training movement  in the 19th-century which swept across the United States. 

In 1870 in New York City  Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School was organized,which was founded by Irish immigrant Thomas Hunter. He  was a president of the school during the first 37 years, it was originally a women's college for training teachers. In Manhattan the school was housed in an armory and saddle store at Broadway and East Fourth Street which was open to all qualified women, irrespective of race, religion or ethnic background. In New York City hunter was deemed the only approved institution for those seeking to teach which was created by the New York State Legislature.

A kindergarten was established in 1887. 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 during Thomas Hunter's tenure as president of the school.In 1899  Helen Gray Cone was elected to the position for the first female professor at the school. The school was incorporated as a college under the statutes of New York State, with the power to confer the degree of A.B in 1888.