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.

Professor of English Ben Lerner was the only CUNY professor to receive a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2015.

Since 2006, the Brooklyn College Foundation has handed out 12,434 scholarships and awards.

Stephanie Longardo '92 has won five Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on Sesame Street.

Leon Glass '63 discovered "Glass patterns," which clarify understanding of how the human brain processes visual stimuli.

Howard Brandston '58 has designed the lighting for nearly 3,000 projects, including the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and the Statue of Liberty.

Susan Pikitch '81 became the first chief financial officer of the United States Golf Association in 2015.

In 2016, Brooklyn College received a $500,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to promote coastal resilience through environmental literacy.

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs included Brooklyn College on its list of colleges and universities producing the most Fulbright Scholars in 2014–15.