NY-Regents Add To Their Very Impressive Lineup

The NY Regents have just accredited another new in-house doctoral program offered by a very prestigious source --

The American Museum of Natural History's new Richard Gilder Graduate School.

http://rggs.amnh.org/

Their initial program is a PhD in Comparative Biology.

http://rggs.amnh.org/pages/amnh_phd_program

Two faculty for every student, innovative curriculum, world-class research collections, opportunities for participation in some 120 AMNH research expeditions each year, numerous laboratories and a specialist library with 220,000 holdings on comparative biology, full tuition support, stipend and research budget for everyone.

This is another very worthy addition to the increasingly impressive NY-Regents ivy league, that also includes...

Rockefeller University. World class. Multiple Nobel Prizes.

http://www.rockefeller.edu/about.php

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This one isn't familiar to the lay public, but among molecular biologists it's big. Multiple Nobel Prize winners have done their research at CSHL, including one of this year's winners.

http://www.cshl.edu/public/releases/09_nobel_prize.html

Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The graduate program is new, but the hospital and research program are long established and world class.

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/53149.cfm

Christies Education New York. Between them, NYC and London account for more than half of the world's commercial art market, and the Christie's auction house is at the heart of the trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Christie's offers its own in-house MA in Modern Art, Connoiseurship and the History of the Art Market.

http://www.christieseducation.com/ny_ma_modconnhist.html

Honorable mention might go to...

The New York Academy of Art. This one offers an MFA in Figurative Art that looks to my eye to be very good.

http://www.nyaa.edu/nyaa/home.html

The North Shore Jewish Medical Center in Long Island was awarding its own NY-Regents accredited PhDs in biomedical sciences no so long ago through its Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, but I'm not sure if that program is currently running. The link on the list of NY Regents accredited schools now delivers inquirers to a joint program with Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

 

Here's the 23 current NY-accredited schools. It's a mixed-bag, with a notably strong top-end.

1. American Academy of Dramatic Arts

Founded in 1884, this is the oldest actor's school in the United States and is more of a conservatory than a higher-education college. It does offer a NY-Regents accredited associate degree though. But don't let the associates degree mislead you, this looks like it belongs in the NY-Regents ivy league. Why? Well... check out its alumni list, a few of which include... Lauren Bacall, Jim Backus, Anne Bancroft, John Cassavetes, Cecil B. DeMille, Danny DeVito, Kirk Douglas, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Carrie-Anne Moss, Robert Redford, Don Rickles, Jason Robards, Edward G. Robinson, Spencer Tracy and many similar names. You can't even count all the Oscars and Emmys that they have racked up. Kind of amazing.

http://www.aada.org/home/home.html

2. American Museum of Natural History - Richard Gilder Graduate School

The famous landmark on the west side of Central Park. Accredited in Nov-09. Awards a PhD in Comparative Biology. This is one of the world's major natural history museums, dating back to the 19'th century. It still sends out many scientific expeditions to places like the Gobi desert and hosts very significant research programs in areas like paleontology.

http://rggs.amnh.org/

3. Bramson ORT College.

Awards associate degrees.

4. Christie's Education, Inc.

West 42nd Street

One of the world's leading high-end auction houses, specializing in fine art, apparently modern art in particular. (Christies in London might see more old-masters.) When a painting by one of the iconic 20'th century artists goes on sale, it's likely to be here.

Christie's New York awards an MA in Modern Art, Connoiseurship and the History of the Art Market. (Christie's in London has several masters programs too, in that case 'validated' by the U. of Glasgow.)

http://www.christieseducation.com/ny_ma_modconnhist.html

5. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Has an attractive wooded campus on the north shore of Long Island

This one offers a PhD in Molecular Biology. CSHL is about 100 years old but has only been offering degrees for about the last ten years. Several Nobel laureates did the work that won them the prize while at CSHL, including one of the 2009 winners. The laboratory's long-time President was Nobel laureate James Watson, of 'Watson and Crick' double-helix DNA fame. The place has been famous for at least a generation for its Cold Spring Harbor Symposia, major meetings where numerous developments in molecular biology have been unveiled over the years.

http://www.cshl.edu

6. Globe Institute of Technology, Inc .

NYC. Awards bachelors degrees.

7. Graduate College of Union University, The
Lamont House

In Schenectady. Awards masters degrees. I seem to recall the maybe 20 years ago this was RA and awarded doctorates, but maybe I'm hallucinating.

8. Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

It's located at and associated with 'Jordanville', an important Russian Orthodox monastery up in the far reaches of NY near the St. Lawrence. It's led by an Archimandrite! (I can't help it, that just sounds cool.) HTS offers an 5-year NY-accredited B.Th., mostly for the resident monks apparently, plus a two-year certificate program in Orthodox theological studies by correspondence for interested members of the Orthodox church. There's also a certificate in church music. (Thanks to Stanislav for educating me about this one.)

http://www.hts.edu

9. Institute of Design and Construction

In Brooklyn. Awards associate degrees.

10. Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Located near Rockefeller U. on the upper east side. Awards a PhD that's organized kind of like a British 'research' doctorate, with relatively few classes and lots of laboratory-apprenticeship stuff. There's also several joint programs in things like bioinformatics offered in conjunction with Rockeller U. and the Cornell Medical School. When Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg needed cancer surgery a few months ago, she went to Sloan Kettering.

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/53149.cfm

11. New York Academy of Art

In trendy lower Manhattan. Offers an MFA that looks impressive to my eye.

http://www.nyaa.edu/nyaa/home.html

12. New York Career Institute

NYC. Awards associate degrees.

13. New York College of Health

In Long Island. Awards masters degrees.

14. Northeastern Seminary

In Rochester. Awards masters degrees.

15. The Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine

This operates out of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center. It awards its own Ph.D. and also participates in a joint doctoral program offered with Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

http://www.elmezzigraduateschool.org/

16. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

Appears to only award certificates. Trains Orthodox rabbis and is apparently associated with Yeshiva.

17. The Rockefeller University

This probably holds the pole position in the NY-Regents ivy league. It offers its own PhDs in biomedical sciences and a joint MD-PhD in association with the Cornell University medical school. About two dozen Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Rockefeller at one time or another and I believe that there are currently six Nobel laureates on its faculty. (Rockefeller has more faculty than students.) The 2009 Shanghai rankings place it at number 10 on the world charts in the life sciences (tied with Yale).

http://www.rockefeller.edu/about.php

18. Salvation Army School for Officer Training

Self-explanatory. Awards associate degrees.

19. Sunbridge College

Awards a masters degree in 'Waldorf' education. A Rudolph Steiner college, looks like. California has one like it, in Sacramento I think, that is/was just CA-approved.

20. Technical Career Institutes

NYC. Awards associate degrees.

21. The King's College

NYC. Awards bachelors degrees.

22. Utica School of Commerce

Awards associate degrees. Has several sites in upstate NY.

23. Wood/Tobe-Coburn School

Awards associate degree

 

Great summary, Bill. One minor correction: HTS is the flagship seminary of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR, aka ROC Abroad, ROCA), so it's BTh program educates most ordination candidates in that Church jurisdiction, not just resident monks. This includes both "black" (monastic) clergy and "white" clergy (married - the majority of parish priests and deacons. They usually marry right after graduation, before ordination to the Diaconate - the Church does not permit marriage for those already in major Orders). Seminarians do spend at least part of their program in residence in the Monastery, to their spiritual benefit. In addition, monastery environment helps learn Liturgics, since monks (unlike most parishes) have resources to celebrate full circle of services (daily, weekly and yearly cycles).

I looked at the Monastery site - apparently before Archimandrite Luke, positions of Monastery Abbot and seminary President was held by His Beatitude Metropolitan Lavr of blessed memory - the Primate of ROCOR. You can see that all previous Abbots were either Archbishops or Metropolitans, making Jordanville the spiritual heart of ROCOR.