New York City, “The Big Apple,” is home to Wall Street and “The Great White Way” of Broadway. With a metropolitan population of almost 22,000,000, New York is by far America’s largest city. Located in the state of New York, it’s the center for fashion, business, finance and media. A recent college graduate looking for an entry level job in accounting, theater or journalism would have a smorgasbord of companies from which to choose in this vast metropolis.

New York City has much to offer recent college graduates looking for entry level employment and college students seeking quality internships. Besides Broadway, New York has many museums, clubs and art galleries. For nature lovers, there are Central Park and Battery Park. For those recent college graduates who have families, the Central Park Zoo is also available. Located in the Northeast, residents can expect mild springs and falls, cold winters with moderate snowfall, and hot sticky summers. With New York’s diverse population growing everyday, could there possibly be a more apt home for the United Nations? Xenophobics need not apply for internships or entry level jobs in New York City.

Originally named New Amsterdam by the Dutch in 1613, New York City has grown from a small fur trading settlement into one of the world’s largest and most popular cities for tourism and business. It was thanks to the British, who overtook the city in 1664, the city received its current moniker in honor of the British Duke of York and Albany. It was also thanks to the British that this port city, at the mouth of the Hudson River, became a hub for international trading.

New York City’s population grew dramatically during the 19th century because of immigration and by 1835, it had usurped Philadelphia’s position as America’s largest city. It still holds that title today. The New York metropolitan area consists not only of the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island – but also Northern New Jersey and Long Island. Such large area provides a college student looking for a quality internship or a high school graduate looking for a quality college education plenty of choices. New York City is home to more than two dozen colleges and universities where students can study everything from art to medicine to liberal arts.

City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest public university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions. It has campuses in Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx, New York City (Manhattan), Jamaica-Queens and Flushing. Its total undergraduate enrollment in the fall of 2005 totaled nearly 116,000. The most popular majors at CUNY are: Baruch College - Accounting, Computer and Information Sciences and, Finance; Brooklyn College - Business Administration/Management, Education and Psychology; City College – Architecture, Electrical and Electronics; College of Staten Island – Liberal Arts, Business Marketing, Health Professions, Construction Trades, Psychology and Computer and Information Sciences; John Jay College of Criminal Justice – Security and Protective Services, Psychology and Social Sciences; Medgar Evers College – Business Administration/Management and Psychology; College of Technology – Commercial and Advertising Art, Computer Science, Hotel/Motel Administration/Management.

Not surprisingly, the next largest university in New York City is the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York. A student interested in an entry level position in fashion can major in Fashion Merchandising Management, Fashion Design and Communication Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

For those who are seeking a more traditional education, there is:

* Fordham University with majors in Business Administration/Management,
Communications and Media Studies, English Language and Literature.

*Long Island University: Brooklyn Campus that offers majors in Health Professions,

*Columbia University/Columbia College whose most popular majors are Social Sciences, English, History, Visual and Performing Arts, and Foreign Languages and Literature.

The city is also home to:

Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies
Berkeley College/New York City
Boricua College
Columbia University/Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University/School of General Studies
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
DeVry Institute of Technology/New York
Eugene Lang College New School for Liberal Arts
Julliard School
Laboratory Institute of Merchandising
Manhattan School of Music
Mannes College of Music
Marymount Manhattan College
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Wagner College
Yeshiva University

Once a college student has had a taste of New York City either while studying there or doing and internship, he will want to take a bite out of “The Big Apple” and look for an entry level job in business, finance, fashion or maybe even entertainment. The bottom line: New York City is the place to be for recent college graduates looking for entry level jobs. Some of the biggest employers are:

Associated Press – the world’s largest news-gathering agency offers internships to college students and entry level positions to recent college graduates in such areas as business, marketing, technology, and, of course, photojournalism and journalism.

Barnes & Noble – the largest bookstore chain in the world offers entry level job opportunities in retail, accounting, communications and network engineering.

Citigroup – College students looking for internships and recent college graduates looking for entry level employment can expect the nation’s largest bank to provide them in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading, and operations.

IBM – hires college students for internships and recent college graduates in accounting, human resources, electrical and computer engineering, and consulting to work for the world’s largest technology company.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers – the world’s leading professional services company offers internship opportunities to college students and entry level jobs to recent college graduates in assurance, tax, human resources and information technology.

TimeWarner – A college student looking for an internship or a recent college graduate looking for entry level employment can find them at the nation’s largest media company in web development, marketing, information technology and management.

Those are just some of the major companies located in New York City. There are, naturally, many others like The Wall Street Journal, L’Oréal, NBC and Tiffany & Co. With so many amazing companies to work for and so many exciting things to see and do, New York City is an excellent choice for a student or recent college graduate looking for a college, internship or entry level employment – provided he can handle living in “the city that doesn’t sleep.”

Source: http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/
*Population statistics courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau – Census 2000.