The School of Humanities and Social Sciences encompasses 12 academic departments that study human life through its literature, culture, history, and philosophy.

Carol Frick Smith '54 was a member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic swimming and diving team.

Our M.D. Sass Investment Academy teaches students how to manage and invest actual securities.

The cholesterol-fighting drug simvastatin was discovered by Alfred Alberts '53.

Hundreds of engraved bricks on campus are our alumni's way to honor loved ones and enshrine their thoughts for current students.

David F. Mintz '76 founded Tofutti.

Ocean Vuong '12 has won both the Pushcart Prize and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets.

Students and faculty have access to 110 smart classrooms on campus.

Yolanda Gibson-Day '83 won the high jump event at the Colgate Games in both 1980 and 1982.

Brooklyn College students can select from more than 100 international education programs on six continents.

Donald Aronow '50 was a two-time world and three-time U.S. powerboat champion.

Brooklyn College has honor societies for students in computing sciences, education, French and Spanish language and literature, psychology, sociology, and television and radio, among others.

The Art Department's certificate program in museum education is one of only seven worldwide that offers such a program, and the only one that combines it with art history.

Martin Summerfield '36 invented regenerative cooling for liquid rocket engines.

The Princeton Review placed Brooklyn College among the top 46 colleges in New York State in 2018.

The Brooklyn College women's basketball team won the CUNYAC championship in 2018.

In the 2016–17 academic year, Brooklyn College faculty garnered $8.5 million in grants and awards for new and ongoing research.

Money magazine ranked Brooklyn College one of the top 50 colleges in the United States in 2017.

Almost half of our students are the first in their family to attend college.

Harold C. Schonberg '37 was the first music critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.