Angela’s Ashes, a best-selling novel made into a popular film, was written by alumnus Frank McCourt ’67 M.A.

Brooklyn College comprises 13 buildings on a 26-acre, tree-lined campus that The Princeton Review has rated as among the “most beautiful” in the nation.

The Brooklyn College Library is the most technologically advanced in the entire CUNY system.

Brooklyn College offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, education and business.

Brooklyn College awarded 4,141 degrees and advanced certificates in 2011 — the highest number in the past 30 years.

Founded in 1930, Brooklyn College became part of the City University of New York, the largest urban university system in the nation, in 1961.

The Brooklyn College Library’s holdings include 1.5 million volumes, 45,000 serials, 43,000 electronic serials and 40,000 electronic books.

President Karen L. Gould is an internationally known scholar of French Canadian literature.

Originally located in downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn College moved to its current location in 1937.

Professor Paul Moses ’75 was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist before joining the faculty of the journalism program.

Our alumni include actors James Franco and Jimmy Smits, California Senator Barbara Boxer, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Brooklyn College has produced three Rhodes Scholars, two in the past six years.

Grammy Award nominee Ursula Oppens, the world-renowned concert pianist and contemporary American music performer, is a member of our faculty.

The men’s basketball team won back-to-back CUNYAC championships in 2009 and 2010.

Our campus is home to one of the largest flocks of monk parakeets in the city.

Our students speak almost 100 different languages.

Brooklyn College is one of the only CUNY campuses with year-round flowers.

This fall our gardeners planted 8,000 tulip, daffodil and hyacinth bulbs on campus.

There are 16 elm trees on campus that are more than 70 years old.

The fish in our Lily Pond are Japanese goldfish, and they remain in the pond year-round.

There are 156 elevators on campus.