Lehman College
Lehman College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, USA. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within the City University in 1968. The college is named after Herbert Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist. It is a public, comprehensive, coeducational liberal arts college with more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations.
The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the Second World War, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the United States Navy who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES and SPARS. The last of its graduates Sgt. Miriam Cohen died in 2009, bringing an end to the era. When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile.
With more than 60,000 alumni and 12,000 students, Lehman College serves the Bronx and our surrounding region as an intellectual, economic, and cultural center. The College is named after Herbert H. Lehman, who was governor of New York State, a U.S. Senator, and an internationalist. His values of dedicated public service continue to guide the College today.
The essential academic activities at Lehman College - teaching, learning, and research – are grouped here by disciplines and services. These activities are reflected in three divisions that contain the traditional academic departments and degree programs and a fourth division that provides access for non-traditional students.
Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs
- African and African American Studies
- Accounting
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Anthropology (interdisciplinary concentration)
- Art
- Biology
- Business Administration
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Computer Graphics and Imaging
- Computer Information Systems
- Computer Science
- Dance
- Dance-Theatre
- Dietetics, Food, and Nutrition
- Economics
- English
- Exercise Science
- French
- German
- Geography
- Geology
- Greek
- Greek and Latin
- Health Education and Promotion
- Health Education N-12
- Health Services Administration
- Hebraic and Judaic Studies
- History
- Italian
- Italian-American Studies
- Latin
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Mass Communication
- Mathematics
- Multimedia Journalism
- Music
- Nursing
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Puerto Rican Studies
- Recreation Education
- Russian
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Spanish
- Speech Pathology and Audiology
- Theatre
Graduate Programs
- Advanced Certificates in Education and Natural & Social Sciences
- Master’s Degrees in the Division of Arts and Humanities
- Master’s Degrees in the Division of Education
- Master’s Degrees in the Division of Natural and Social Sciences
- PhD Programs offered through CUNY Graduate Center
Centers & Institutes
- The Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies
- The Center for School / College Collaboratives
- Discovering the Bronx
- Public Service Leadership Institute
- CUNY Institute for Health Equity
- Institute for Irish American Studies
- The Bronx Institute
- Institute for Literacy Studies
Contact Details
Lehman College
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, NY 10468
Phone: 718-960-8000
Official Website: http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/
