The high-profile address gives the university significantly more visibility and positions it for further growth.
The college has about 5,100 undergraduates, with a teaching staff of 1242, of which over a third are full-time. It has about 6,900 graduate students. About 70% of undergraduates and graduate students are female. Among undergraduates, some 5% are Asian, 13% are black, 11% are Hispanic and 54% are white. The four-year graduation rate is 55%.
== History ==
Touro College was founded by Orthodox rabbi and academic sociologist Bernard Lander, who named it for Isaac Touro, an colonial America Orthodox rabbi, and his son Judah Touro, a businessman and philanthropist.
Lander's aim was to provide education for Jewish people, combining professional courses with Torah studies. The college received its charter as a private, four-year liberal arts college from the Board of Regents of the State of New York in 1970, and opened its doors in 1971. In its first year it had thirty-five students, all men. A section …
