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New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit nonsectarian research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is considered one of the world’s most influential and foremost research universities. University rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report, Times Higher Education and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU among the top 32 universities in the world. NYU is organized into more than 20 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. NYU's main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan with institutes and centers on the Upper East Side, academic buildings and dorms down on Wall Street, and the Brooklyn campus located at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The university also established NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai and maintains 11 other Global Academic Centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv; and Washington, D.C. NYU enrolls approximately 25,500 undergraduate and 24,000 post-graduate students from a wide variety of religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, including 183 foreign countries.