education and access to opportunity. In the fall of 2008, NYIT phased out its Ellis College branch, which for another nine years operated separately as Ellis University until it ceased operations altogether in 2017.
== Academics ==
Of faculty at NYIT, 95% hold their doctorate or other terminal degree. NYIT holds full accreditation in over 50 academic areas. Nationally, fewer than 100 colleges and universities match this achievement. The New York Tech School of Architecture and Design is the only school of architecture and design in the New York metropolitan area with fully accredited programmes in both architecture and interior design.
New York Tech offers cross-registration programs with other New York metropolitan area institutions, including Princeton University, Columbia University and Cornell University.
=== Demographics ===
The student body has over 7,700 graduate and undergraduate students and around 1,000 academic faculty. The student body at NYIT is 55% male and 45% female.
=== Libraries ===
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