I am told that each college has it’s own niche or specific academic area that it is very well regarded in.
Baruch, for example, is known for being a good business school.
Hunter has a good nursing school and is a known for it’s liberal arts curriculum (philosophy in particular).
What about City, Brooklyn, Lehman, and Queens?
Is there more to Baruch and Hunter?
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Not sure about Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Lehman has a respectable Nursing Program (BSN/MSN), while City is known for its Engineering/Computer Science Programs. City has an Excellent Science Program also, along with their Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education & Physician Assistant Program.
Brooklyn is good for Arts and education and a lot of people that can’t get into Baruch or don’t want to commute into the city go for Accounting and get decent jobs. Plus, Brooklyn and Queens are very popular with Orthodox Jews, even though some go to Hunter and Baruch, many prefer Queens and Brooklyn to go to school with their friends from hs. Speech Pathology and education are popular majors for Jewish girls and both schools have those majors. These are also fields where your GPA just has to be 3.0 or higher. Whereas, for fields like business and engineering, better schools and GPAs above 3.5 really help you make more money or find work more easily. They say it doesn’t matter once you find your first job, but it does because the first job will be a lot better if you have a 3.7 than a 3.0, then subsequent jobs will be better. Also, it will determine the quality of grad schools available to you. Teachers and speech therapists make about the same no matter what. Experience helps you make more, not really GPA, but even so there’s little variation through out your career. I’ve also heard they like people who studied locally. Like everyone in Accounting wants to get into a big 4. The keys to doing that are: high gpa and stable work history in any field (will help a lot but not required), These matter more than the school.