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CHOOSE YOURInternational Student Brochure LIU universitiesintheusa.com 2 universitiesintheusa.com universitiesintheusa.com 3 WELCOME TO LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY Contents Our two campuses each offer different experiences, both amazing in their own ways. This prospectus will help you decide which is the best option for you and explain the degree programs available to you. 4 The LIU Network Our university of distinction gives you the opportunity to find your own student home town, a place for you to excel, grow and prepare for your future. 6 Brooklyn & Post Whether you’re a city lover or you’re seeking the quintessential college campus experience, we’ve got the perfect degree for you. 8 LIU Brooklyn LIU was founded in Brooklyn, in 1926 Your Future in New York City expanding to the Long Island 10 Post campus in 1954 12 Life at Brooklyn 14 LIU Post Life at Post I learned from my experience at 16 LIU Post that people are not different, anywhere in the world. We are just the same. We are different colors and we like different spices and different foods, Your Career After Post but all inside we are the just the same. 18 We have the same conversations, the same fears, the same anxieties and the same hardships in daily life. If you get to know people you realize they are all Programs the same; so that is one thing I am 20 going to take back. Aisha, Pakistan MA English Literature 22 How to Apply 4 universitiesintheusa.com universitiesintheusa.com 5 THE LIU NETWORK Countryside Access and Excellence The Best Place for You Our mission is Access and Excellence, and You can now choose which is the best option that is exactly what direct admission via for you, from a science-related subject in the Study Group provides: access to a U.S. most exciting and most populated of New University that offers career excellence. LIU York City’s five boroughs, to creative arts on Community Brooklyn and LIU Post both offer excellent Long Island, with its beaches and outdoor locations and lifestyles, and above all, unique lifestyle. The perfect combination for programs designed to get you on the path to you can be found here. Creative a successful career in your field. With an unrivaled student to faculty ratio of 14:1, LIU will ensure you have personal attention and support to help you through your Friendly studies and reach your potential. Bustling Exceptional Location POST Dynamic Excellence Entrepreneurial Outdoors WHICH LIU ARE YOU? STUDENT BROOKLYN SUCCESS Chic Access Career Seaside Urban Success Community Distinction Beautiful Multicultural Lifestyle Hipster Independent Inquisitive 6 universitiesintheusa.com universitiesintheusa.com 7 INNOVATIVE, URBAN BROOKLYN CHIC, RELAXED POST If you’re looking for the ultimate city experience, living in – and being a part of – Brooklyn’s Looking for space to think and focus while remaining close to a major city? busy and exciting neighborhood is for you. Live and study in the “Tech Triangle”, with some Post offers a friendly community, with outdoor activities and a calm lifestyle of the world’s leading companies on your doorstep. With all this, plus some of the world’s to give you the time to get the most from your degree. Try something new, like biggest events and most famous entertainment venues both locally and in Manhattan, sailing or horse riding, or just enjoy living in the place New Yorkers flock to you’ll never be bored in New York City. each summer for vacation. BROOKLYN F. Scott Fitzgerald based his popular novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ in the Gold Coast of Long Island, where Post is located POST “ No matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I’m proud of that heritage. It’s where I’m from, who I am.” Howard Schultz 8 universitiesintheusa.com universitiesintheusa.com 9 Among the Top 5% of the nation’s Rated A for location and diversity Niche.com, 2019 universities for ethnic diversity The Brooklyn Bridge is College Factual, 2019 Brooklyn is the 4th largest 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) long in the USA by population Prospect Park borders 5 Brooklyn city Coney Island, located in Brooklyn, LIU BROOKLYN neighborhoods and welcomes 10 New York City’s one and only is home to the legendary 1927 Multicultural Brooklyn is famous around the world. From the music million visitors every year aquarium is found in Brooklyn roller coaster, the Cyclone of Jay-Z, to the hot dog, Brooklyn has had an impact far larger than the size of the borough of New York City. “There’s Nothing You Can’t Do” “Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made...” To the northeast of the LIU Brooklyn campus lies Williamsburg, the area famous for the Although small, Brooklyn is the most highly populated borough in the city, “hipster” movement. Here you will find coffee giving it a bustling and energetic feeling. You can find arts, science, and shops, nightlife and a wide range of places to business communities all in close proximity, and often working together. eat. It even has its own market, Smorgasburg, These days, Brooklyn is known for a number of technology start-ups that open every weekend, where you can sample have found a home there, reflecting the forward-thinking nature of the area. local street food. This is known as the ‘Tech Triangle’, and with LIU Brooklyn located within the Throughout Brooklyn you can go shopping in triangle, there are plenty of opportunities for students to network with the the array of local boutiques, home to vintage technology community. fashion and emerging designers. You can Brooklyn is open-minded, edgy and dynamic, appealing to those who are also catch the subway to Manhattan and interested in setting their own path and being a part of a growing scene. check out the famous Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s department stores. Manhattan offers the traditional New York City tourist experience; take a trip up the Empire State Building or marvel at the enormous Grand Central Terminal. You can hire a rowboat on Central Park’s Improve Your English lake or find something to eat at some of Student population: the world’s best restaurants. Skills With ESL The English Language Institute (ELI) at 5,721 (3,164 undergraduate; However you choose to enjoy Brooklyn and LIU Brooklyn is dedicated to helping ESL 2,557 graduate); the rest of New York City, there’s something students improve their English skills to international students from for you here. make the most of the American university more than 50 countries) experience. Place yourself in a much LIU Brooklyn stronger academic position by taking our Full-time faculty: 257 Our friendly campus is located close to the Intensive English Program. This program Faculty holding the highest iconic Brooklyn Bridge. Student residences, will help you gain confidence and feel better degrees in their field:86% academic facilities and lecture theaters are prepared for your degree by improving your housed in both traditional and modern English language skills and introducing U.S. buildings that are connected together by Seven colleges: Business, culture. Each year, nearly 80 students Public Administration and a series of enclosed bridges. graduate from our ESL program and begin Information Sciences; Although the campus is located in an urban full-time undergraduate or graduate study Education; Health Professions; area, our gated campus offers beautifully at LIU Brooklyn. landscaped areas in which to study, meet Liberal Arts and Sciences; LIU The course can take one or two semesters Global; Nursing; and Pharmacy with friends or just relax. to complete and includes: University accreditations: Brooklyn Is New York’s · Language skills – listening, speaking, College Town writing and reading Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) LIU Brooklyn is located just steps away from · Academic preparation – library mentoring the Barclays Center and top arts venues like program, tutoring services, labs, exam Program accreditations: BAM. It is also near the hip restaurants, skills, and note-taking ACOTE, ACPE, ARC-PA, APA, boutiques and cafés of Fort Greene. And it’s ASEP, ASHA-CAA, caATe, only a short subway ride to the vast cultural · Cultural adaptation CAPTE, CAAHEP, CoARC, offerings and professional opportunities You will benefit from 20 hours per week of CSWE, NASPAA, TEAC of Manhattan. instruction in small classes of 12 to 15 students, taught by caring, expert teachers. 10 universitiesintheusa.com universitiesintheusa.com 11 One of the top “hot colleges Top 5% University for Health in the making” Forbes, 2018 Professional Majors College Factual, 2020 Top 5% Highest Paid Grads: YOUR FUTURE IN Nursing LIU Brooklyn benefits from NEW YORK CITY College Factual, 2020 strong links with business Preparing You for Your City Career Help to Plan Your Career To the City and to the World LIU Brooklyn students have During your degree program you will have Getting ahead in your career takes more than LIU alumni benefit from an international interned for world-famous the opportunity to intern in the local area, academic skills and relevant experience. You network of contacts, excellent facilities and companies, including: including Wall Street (just a 10-minute also need to understand the job application can help shape the future of the University subway ride away from campus), and process and how to present yourself through supporting new students and • The New York Stock Brooklyn’s innovative “Tech Triangle.” confidently in interviews. participating in events. Exchange In addition to this, LIU Brooklyn has a thriving The LIU Brooklyn career services staff will LIU Handshake • KPMG entrepreneurial community, with two help you discover how to write a professional As a student here, you will have access • Donna Karan Company successful student-run businesses operating résumé and cover letter.