The College of Your Future

Discover for yourself why Queens College (QC) is the place to build your future. Located on a beautiful 80-acre tree-lined campus in New York City, Queens College has over 60 undergraduate programs, ranging across various fields such as the arts, business, computer science, education, and the sciences. The recently opened School of Business and School of Arts offer the best of the liberal arts while building on emerging trends and a vast network of business partners and community organizations. Queens College will give you the solid foundation needed to reach your goals.

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The admissions review process provides us with an opportunity to assess your entire academic record, including attempted and completed courses, and grades earned. Going beyond the classroom, your extracurricular accomplishments, special talents and awards, and life experiences are weighed to determine a student’s potential for success at Queens College.

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Why Queens College?

​Queens College offers transfer students the tools they need to succeed:

  • Transfer Explorer (T-Rex) is the source for the most up-to-date information about how CUNY colleges transfer and apply credit for both CUNY and non-CUNY courses, as well as for other learning experiences, like exams and certifications.
  • Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) is an academic process that offers students the opportunity to earn credits for college-level learning acquired outside the traditional classroom.
  • The Transfer Honors Program (THP) recognizes the remarkable contributions transfer students make to the Queens College community. The THP provides the financial and academic support that talented students need to succeed in their transition to Queens College and beyond. Through individualized advisement and mentoring, you will be able to take advantage of QC’s range of scholastic opportunities and pursue ambitious programs tailored to your scholarly and career goals.

Scholarships and Internships 

Queens College students and alumni have won numerous awards and scholarships:

  • Fulbright
  • Goldwater
  • MacArthur Foundation
  • Marshall
  • Mellon Mays
  • Rhodes

They have gone on to intern and find careers at:

  • Amazon
  • BlackRock
  • Deloitte
  • Google
  • IBM
  • Morgan Stanley 

Stay Social   

There are more than 100 clubs and student organizations and extracurricular activities for everyone at Queens College.

Queens College Knights 

Queens College is one of only two CUNY schools that participates in Division II athletics, with a total of 15 men’s and women’s teams. 

Diverse and Talented Student Body  

Queens College students speak more than 93 languages at home and trace their ancestry to more than 153 countries.

Live Where You Learn   

The Summit Apartments provides affordable on-campus housing, where you can enjoy the full college experience in the world’s borough.

QC ranks in the top 1 percent of colleges nationwide in helping disadvantaged students attain upward social and economic mobility.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Queens College #7 in Top Performers on Social Mobility – Regional Universities, North.

PayScale ranked QC among the top 12 percent of U.S. colleges offering an excellent return on investment, due to low cost of attendance and high earnings potential for its graduates.