Borough of Manhattan Community College

Affordable tuition and has all the prerequisites for nursing programs. Sometimes offer free tuition for summer and winter classes if you registered early. Great school to start your career!

Bmcc will always be one of my favorite college where I took my prerequisite for the nursing program and graduated as a liberal art major in 2024. and now I’m planning to transfer to a private college. Bmcc is a great a place to start because you have a lot opportunities such as financial aid, tap, scholarships and you don’t have worries about financial problems. They have extraordinary professors , who are willing to help and totters. All you need is to focus and study. I’m really thankful Alhamdulily and thanks to Bmcc for everything they have done for me. I highly recommend Bmcc to anyone who’s interested studying in a community college.

Good college to start or simply get your associates degree!

The college has won multiple awards from the CUNY system as well as other institutions for its ability to grant Associate's Degrees at an impressive rate and to foster continuing education at senior colleges. With a respectable teacher-to-student ratio, significant public and private funding, and a central location in New York City, the learning experience has been covered by many publications and studied by experts. However, BMCC also suffers from a large rise in remedial education, lack of freshman retention, and overcrowding. Due to its larger base of capital compared to most other two-year colleges, expansion of new campuses during the rebuilding of Fiterman Hall was possible. Several trailers are still used as classrooms to this day in order to help expand capacity. Internal programs have also been created or expanded to help with academic advisement, provide online access for registration, transferring to other colleges, and job placement. A diverse student base, some of whom had immigrated to America shortly before enrolling, also makes tailoring a viable solution difficult. Improving the retention and graduation rate as well as the increased financial and academic burdens of a remedial program still remain a considerable problem. The Center for Career Development (CCD) provides students with comprehensive career planning services. Its professional career counselors assist students in making informed decisions about an area of study; research occupations that match their personal interests; write a resume; practice interviewing, and help them prepare as candidates for internships and employment. Students also learn to clarify their career goals, develop effective communication and interpersonal skills, conduct job searches, and develop a digital portfolio for employers to view as evidence of their skills, accomplishments and professional qualifications. In addition, CCD partners with New York Needs You, the New York office of America Needs You, to host career-oriented events and seminars to bring industry insights to its students.

Wasted time! Failed to let me know a program had a waiting list over 2 years but allowed me to go through the motions to apply. Website doesn’t mention program isn’t available but that didn’t stop them from allowing me to waste valuable time and money to transfer my credits and transcripts. Such a big disappointment. No wonder so many students get discouraged because of the lack of professionalism, and proper information given.

Great college with students who are striving to better themselves. Without places like BMCC, thousands of NYers would have no access to higher ed. Most 4 year colleges do not have the resources to think about students who do not fit a specific SAT, GPA, or language level.

Very diverse. You can see all kind of people over here. Most of the students and staff are friendly. Environment is good. Friendly neighborhood. If you are hungry, you can find all types of food around the building. It has 26000 student. It also has a big cafeteria, big library, big quiet study place for study and a lot more . All in all this is one of the best college.

15 years ago...you showed I.D. and signed in to enter in 2 minutes.. Now you have to use technology that doesnt work...and if you make a mistake...it will take 10 minutes to sign in. Also getting information about the Excelsior scholarship program is difficult. The Bursar office tells people..."there is no one here you can talk to....its all online"

DO NOT ATTEND THEIR RESPIRATORY THERAPY PROGRAM. JUST DONT!!!! I gave them 3 stars because this particular CUNY campus has a lot of student services and activities to keep students engaged, and that's great! However, CUNY should be ashamed of themselves for how they operate, unions in an educational environment are not a good idea. It allows people who aren't doing their jobs to keep their jobs, whereas, at a traditional public university or private college if there is enough smoke about a faculty member and their malfeasance, inappropriate behavior, or lack of performance they are removed. That doesn't happen at CUNY, and the fact that the VP of Student Affairs has time on her hands to comment on Yelp reviews instead of actually addressing student issues and making tangible changes at this college about some of these professors is very absurd. The old Dean left and we have a new one. Students have reported the first-year RT lecture professor for his inappropriate, unprofessional, and sometimes very problematic comments, some of which are sexist, and ride the line of Title 9 complaince. The students went to the Dean and nothing was done, this has emboldened this professor and so when he goes on his rants and says inappropriate things he says, he always says, you all can go to the Dean nothing will happen. Because nothing happens, students at a university are supposed to have support and more power because, without them, you don't have federal funding or a budget to operate. These people cover each other's asses. Luckily we have been recording everything so I will be reporting this foolishness. We have to have standards and expectations of these people the same way they have of us, we are paying for this! I am an Iraqi Veteran using my GIBILL here and I'm not satisfied at all with the quality at this school, so I am reporting them to the VA. Lastly, I worked for CUNY at another campus for 4 years, so I know the BS from an employee standpoint and that of a student. To any students who experience problems at this campus or any other, please record everything and get things in an email so you have proof of what happened, if the Deans don't do anything, take it to the Ombudsman and the Chancellor and also report the program to the accrediting agency so an unbiased, ethical party can look into the programs. The typical corruption, lack of morals, and unethical behavior have to stop!!! It begins with you and I.

College Now - don't bother with this school. They don't even care to notify students if they were not accepted. It's a scam! Don't waste your time applying.

The most depressing school to attend. I attended back in 2022 and it was better then, but I was shocked to return this fall to find a very angry, apathetic student population. Even just to get our IDs it was a weeklong grueling process and not enough staff to handle the many issues with the virtual IDs, so multiple students raged incoherently and had to be removed from the auditorium just during the several hours I was there. I had to do the ID process twice because the staff didn't put my email in the form, others experienced that as well, and a lot of us spent almost half a day downstairs for help that never came with our IDs, missing classes. The quality of classes has gone way down. Now no one speaks or engages in classes and the teachers get ignored while teaching. No one does homework so the "classes" are just the teacher going over the text really slowly. Only 2 of my female teachers the whole time I've been here were interested in making interesting engaging classes, while the male ones were flippant and tried to get students to teach the 101 class by requiring class long presentations on the textbook. Every time I fill my roster with classes I end up dropping half because of not having decent teachers! You only get a 25% refund for classes btw. It's so so depressing, I regret doing my associates degree here. Please do online university rather than bother with BMCC! It's not worth the tuition.

They need new staff. I am appalled at how the receptionist for admissions did not want to help in answering 3 simple questions about admissions to the nursing program. It seems no one wants to work these days. She hung up on me when asking second question about prerequisites. I asked if they accept some of the coursework to have been taken online and how far back to they accept the courses we have taken but she hung up on me mid-sentence. Seems she really hates working there. This ruined the experience for me which does not make me want to apply nor attend this school any longer. Such a shame. :(

I don't know why our college rating is so bad even though this college is so much perfect. I really liked their campus. It's so beautiful mostly the main campus. All the stuffs are very friendly and helpful here I never face any issue with any services. I am Science student here. I really enjoyed and like this major here. The teachers were very friendly and helpful here. In all my science classes I mate with lots of student who was e-permitted from City College and Hunter. For my Physics 220 class three-fourths was from City College. All of them really liked the classes here. Even some student transfer from City College, Hunter and some other colleges to BMCC.

It's about what you'd expect for a CUNY school. A diverse student body, and mediocre facilities. But the one thing they excel at are support services. There's lots of help here if you know how to take advantage of it. As a returning student I was glad to have at least 1 other older adult in every one of my classes. It didn't stop some classes from feeling like 13th grade, but you had at least one other person there taking their education seriously. Which meant at least one other person taking decent notes. In my time there, I only encountered one truly incompetent professor. So bad that I had to speak to the Chair of the department. He was tenured so I highly doubt anything will be done on his end, but the Chair was extremely helpful with alternatives and even offered personal tutoring from another professor. I ended up dropping the class but it was a strategic move. I ended up taking the class again during the Winter session and pulled out an A. Speaking of the Winter session, I HIGHLY recommend taking the shorter Winter & Summer sessions if you can. It's 4-5 weeks which seems daunting, but in reality it's a breeze. You don't have time to forget anything. You learn it and are immediately tested on it. The professors who choose to teach these session tend to be on top of their game. There's just no time for disorganization and a lack of focus. I also recommend the CUNY Edge program in the Murray Building. They used to have more job fairs and seminars that gave out neat incentives like $25 Dunkin' Donuts cards, but they still offer a free (though limited) textbook library and free laptop rentals. The library in the Main building also lends scientific calculators. DO NOT be an eager beaver and buy your textbook before the first day of class!!! I didn't even have to purchase textbooks for about half my classes. Between the editions being online for free, some classes don't use textbooks at all. Then there was my awesome Statistics professor who gave us copies of all the chapters we needed. It's a given that you will get the literal run-around from the Financial Aid, Bursar, & Advisement departments. It looks great on my fitness tracker running from Fitterman to the Main building 4x in a row. Advisement is the worst of the three if you have transfer credits. But there are many opportunities to have multiple people go over your credits. Big shout out to the woman in the Business Dept. who helped salvage my last semester from turning into another one for no reason. Go to your major's department office. They are SO helpful. Of special note, my Advertising prof, Professor Wei, has been helpful even after graduating. She put us in contact with a recruiter colleague and set up a resumè workshop for students at a major advertising group. Also my final group project in her class was the best one I've ever done. Group projects are usually a horror show. Aesthetically there's only one attractive building. The Fitterman being the newest still manages to be as confusing as the conjoined twin-like Main building. The elevators don't stop on every floor and it's always a mass of confusion at the start of every semester. They just got the swimming pool back in the Main building after a long renovation and there's a sad workout room that I really should have taken more advantage of. My only regret is not knowing anything about the Music department until it was too late. But I didn't have room for many non-major related classes anyway. This was strictly a get in and out as fast as possible endeavor. And like most community colleges, it's difficult to get your degree in just 2 years. But if you ask enough questions and take advantage of your major department, you can have a much smoother college experience.

Horrible service and staff, no one wants to be there and it really feels like dmv. I highly regret enrolling. Please go to a different cc as I am now pessimistic about my own future. If anything I should've stayed at bhcc, another more rural community college even though I had to commute. One the worst mistakes of my life.

The staff is horrible there's old professors that I have constantly emailed on multiple platforms and I haven't received any response from any of them. I still haven't received my grade from a previous class months ago yet they want to punish me for one bad grade. That college sucks don't go there everyone is unprofessional.

So it's been a while since I been at this campus and let's just sway ally has changed since the early 2000's and for the best. The fitter man building is chic and up to date, the cafe is clean andnyou dontbhave to necessarily buy something to heat up your food and sit before or after your class. I love that there are computers on each floor for your browsing and the class rooms in this building has free print which I appreciate. I'm here on a Epermit since I attend CUNY YORK college and I'm really digging the changes that BMCC has made. The study room is actually quiet and you can actually study lol and I'm just happy that BMCC made these changes. As far as the main building haven't really had any classes there however I'm hoping the bathrooms are updated because YORK need's a serious facelift! Professors aren't as bad here but honestly it's a hit or kit woth proffesors now a days :-(

The accessibility department is rude and unhelpful, Get ready to go it alone.

I applied to BMCC for the Spring semester last year, and I was told that it would take 2-3 weeks to process my high school transcript and to admit me. After four weeks of not hearing anything I had called and emailed them several times and was assured that they were experiencing delays and there was nothing wrong with my application. I was later advised that it could take up to 8 weeks to process my application. After 9 weeks, I had emailed them to ask for a status update and received no response. The semester has now started, and I have still heard nothing.

They have HORRIBLE customer/student services! The Financial Aid Department do not seem like they are working because they do not pick up the phone when I have called them, very slow to reply to emails (maybe they have a lot, I understand. But if that's the case they should hire more people)

I'm on my third semester and so far I really love it. Great professors, beautiful area and campus, helpful staff at the financial aid lab, friendly advisors, and lots of class options. I was in the ASAP program and they helped me out so much. Paid some of my classes, free metro cards, and paid for my textbooks!! I will be sad to leave. But I'll always remember BMCC as where I started :) Tips: Make sure to use "degree works" on CUNYfirst. It will really help you figure out which classes you need to take to graduate. And check the website "ratemyprofessor" for the professor reviews before you sign up for their class.

This new Fiterman building is nice enuf...but it's just kinda weird that we are going to school on top of a buncha dead people. I don't want to be here alone at night. Overall I do want outstanding grades so I'm going to try and put it outta my mind. God bless those people/ghosts.

Before I begin my review, I just want to say I LOVE BMCC. I spent two years in this school before starting the transfer process (without graduating). It's a cheap two-year school which is a good choice for seasoned students to get their GPA up, adult students who are beginning their education, or younger people to get acclimated to college and a way to make the transition to adult life from high school. With that said, however, there are some classmates you will have in your classes who act as though they are still goofing off in high school. You WILL learn in this school so long as you come to your classes and are willing to put the work in. Professors are basically a hit or miss, I've had mostly decent professors and a few outstanding ones who truly inspired me. It's definitely a great school to get a head start on life. As an education major, I've learned a LOT and had great fieldwork experience. Most of the education professors are awesome from my experience. You do need to be on top of your game with DegreeWorks, though. Sad to say a lot of the academic advisors do not go into much detail about what classes you can take towards your degree or which classes you must take. This could end up with you wasting time on unnecessary classes, or not taking classes that you need for your major. Additionally many staff do not give clear answers or just give you a quick response to get you to go away. This is the one thing I was always complaining about in BMCC. My final complaint about this school is how difficult the remedial classes are. It is extremely hard to pass them, and I only say that because many for-credit classes are easier to pass then remedial, which I feel is unfair, but I'm sure this is not exclusive to just Bmcc. Basically, if you need to strengthen your GPA before transferring to a 4 year, this is a solid choice. I'll definitely miss it when I leave!

My class mates and I need an attorney to represent us against this institution for damages resulting from the following. Financial aid takes forever to be disbursed. BMCC has a policy that they disburse your financial aid once you've completed 40% of a class, which means that you have to get yourself back and forth, buy resources, and cover your living expenses for nearly two months while you wait for federal funds that are intended to pay the aforementioned expenses. The teachers are aware of this policy, and front load their classes anyway. Which leads to students falling irretrievably behind before their aid is even disbursed, and guess what, if you fail your classes because the financial aid department sat on your funds until they were useless to you, bad grades can cause you to forfeit future financial aid. Who doesn't like a good paradox. Drop periods end before classes even start. This means that if you get to a class and find out that you're not going to be able to make the commute, or you cant afford the book etc., you still get to pay for 25% of the class. Every policy is the inversion of the way it was written. For example, SAP requires that you pass (roughly) 3 credits for every 12 you attempt. Seems legit right? However if you have 3 credits after 12 credit attempts, and then sign up for 12 more classes the following semester, this broken institution counts 24 credit attempts against your initial 3. This means that you forfeit your financial aid. This is a very specific example, but it boggles the mind. There are plenty of instances of this policy inversion. Other examples include but are not limited to: You need to take the class in order to take the exemption test exempting you from taking the class, In order to have an unreasonable grade changed because your teacher can't be reasoned with you have to get a signature from said unreasonable teacher, The testing centers can't tell you if you're on an exam list because they can't divulge a student whereabouts to a student (even when it's the same student). There are more instances of this, but thinking about it will literally make you dumber. This constant forfeiture of your financial aid is a recurring theme. Everybody is on their last chance at BMCC, which is also their first chance. Hence the 18% graduation rate. Oh yeah, did I not mention the 18% graduation rate? I know, it's a two year college, and people transfer out. However let me direct you to their fabulous 19% transfer rate. Given that this school seems to be obsessed with transferring students to NYU, you might think it would actually happen now and again. Most people just crumble under the weight of the previously mentioned policies, and leave the school with a bad transcript and debt. 2 years can be a long time to work on an associates degree, so BMCC offers accelerated program called ASAP. BMCC boasts that most students who choose this accelerated program will complete their associates in just 3 years! That's right 3 years to get a 2 year degree, and they actually tell people this as though it's a good thing. Everybody's from out of state! BMCC would rather economically ruin 100 NYC residents than accidentally offer in state tuition to a dirty foreigner. After all, out of state students are obviously tripping over themselves to attend such a fine institution. Remediation is a fundamental part of life at BMCC. Our entry exams start with the hardest questions, and work their way back. If you get overwhelmed, and need to come back and retake the test, don't worry you can do that. The only hitch tho is that there's no way to exit the test, except to finish it, and if you finish it, you can't take it again for 3 years. So I hope you enjoy 3 semesters of macaroni art instead of math, for no credit. This also means that you won't begin taking the courses in your major until you're at least a year and a half in. Thinking about taking summer courses? BMCC offers a free summer course to very specific groups of the student body. To get you to these 6 week courses BMCC will also provide you with a 30 day metro card. But you've gotta get yourself to the last to weeks on your own. Oh yeah, and buy the books out of pocket. BMCC does offer summer financial aid, not for these courses, but in general. What they fail to tell you is that if you take it, it's going to come out of the following aid year. Obviously the fall spring semester begins in June, when else would it start? This means that you'll be short for the whole year, but you won't know that til you get your disbursement in October. Good luck eating and keeping a roof over your head. None of this would be as bad if you couldn't find schools within the CUNY system who seem to have better policy, kids at hunter don't have to wait til school's over to buy books. Kids at City Tech Have much more realistic SAP standards. BMCC is literally stealing the futures of poor kids. It's really a shame.

BMCC is....well, it's a community college. There seem to be less motivated students here than at other CUNY (or 4 year) schools which is kinda bum but: community college. And the main building has a lot of wear and tear, again: community college. There's no real 'campus', just three buildings spread out with the city, bodegas, fast food places, and typically large FiDi buildings in between them. The facilities themselves are okay. There are 3 buildings: the Main Building, 70 Murray, and Fiterman. The main building is definitely worn. Escalators and elevators are available to get up and down floors. They also have a cafeteria area with a 'food court', a large gym, and a great library with free one-on-one tutoring on school subjects. I think they're also installing an indoor pool? Murray is a large enough building with large classrooms and plenty of seating in common spaces on the floors. It's nicer than the main building but not nearly as nice as it could be. The biggest problem is the elevator bank. You WILL wait in line to get in an elevator; there's really no getting around that fact. If you come during 'rush hour', plan to wait 10-15 mins. They only go to floors 10, 11, 12, and 14. You'll have to take the internal stairs to get to any other floors. It's like...the worst. Best of luck, my friends. Fiterman is the nicest of all of the three buildings. It has a lot of big glass windows so plenty of light and tons of cushy seating options in large, common areas. The first four floors are accessible by escalator and for the other floors, Fiterman has elevator banks (one set of elevators goes to floor 1, 5, and 7; the other set goes to 1, 9, and 11. Once you get to one of those floors, you can take the stairs). They also have a cafe with Starbucks products and some light-ish food options. It's by far the most up-to-date building with the best facilities. I attempt to take all my classes here. TLDR; its a community college so don't expect a ton. Teachers are hit or miss and the facilities could do with a face lift or two. Tuition is cheeeeap (praise ye baby jesus) so maybe it's the you-get-what-you-pay-for adage. Worth it...mostly. Bonus: Each building also has filter water spigots for you to refill your reusable water bottle.

Okay, before anyone says why I am giving this school a 4 star rating it is because of personal reasons. Overall though this is a last resort school that you go to if you are not too sure if want to go to college or not. It has gotten a bit worse since the days I went because a lot of rif raf and ghetto hoods attend here now so it actually looks like a high school rather than a college but once you get passed that, it is actually a decent school. The professors for the most part, at least the ones that I had have been very cool with interesting personalities. As a matter of fact I can say that for the classes I took here I don't think I really had one bad professor. And I am not even an A student but the professors do put in an effort to have you get something out of the class, even if its not an A grade. The library is sufficient and they have a nice little cafe on the main floor where you can eat and on the side use the computers. There are also a lot of beautiful, sexy females that attend this school. I know I have met a few...lol. I guess its one of the reasons why some ppl call this school Baby Mama Community College...lol. Administrative/Info Desk/Bursar/Financial Aid staff is good for the most part. Got to catch them on the right days though. If they are dealing with an influx of students who waited to take care of there financial/registrating matters then you may not be too please about how they handle your situation but if you are organized and have the papers needed and the info you need to take care of your business you will be alright. The few drawbacks of this school other than the ghetto ppl who now attend here is that the esculators tend to break down kind of often, more so on the 5th and 7th floors and if you have to go in one of the trailer classes, I feel kind of bad for you during the cold fall and winter months. Really not too much heat, unless it has improved since I attended there.

BMCC! Start here, go anywhere :) I took four pre-requisite courses here to apply for grad school. I chose this place because it was close to the A train (holler!) and it offered a lot of science courses. It was an ordeal trying to register, sign up for courses, and get my transcripts sent. But I just kept persisting. Don't even bother calling the various administrative offices if you need assistance. They rarely pick up - at least in my experience. You just have to show up. The classes for the most part were decent. I had some really good professors. (Just check ratemyprofessors.com as a reference, but also take it with a grain of salt). The student body is really diverse, so that's really cool. Tuition is expensive, but that's New York for ya. In the end, I was able to take the classes I needed to, and I got into one of the top grad school programs in my field. So if you're taking classes here, be persistent and don't give up! You never know where you'll end up. (It has also been one of my dreams to go to an out-of-state and/or public school, so BMCC: you have fulfilled one of my dreams. #praisetheLord) :D

The Tribeca performing arts center is located here. They put on amazing plays from around the world because they actually host theater, ballet, and musical troupes from foreign counties. Cheap tickets to world class entertainment!

I am about to graduate, going to Hunter, but I must say my experience continues to be positive, the only negative was dealing with the department services. I am sad I am leaving this great location, I love tribeca. I always felt comfortable in the 3 buildings and felt were clean for the most part, the bathrooms should be cleaner but most times are decent. Loved most of my professors and the people I met. My advice, google info you need before heading to school, pay attention to deadlines so you dont waste time, email and call whenever necessary and good luck, don't let the initial perception of the school discourage you.

This review is to complain about the bursar office and their terrible customer service. Me myself being a former CUNY employee never treated students with the disrespect and unhelpful attitude that I was treated with. I was trying to pay a bill off in order to pay off tuition that I owe from a few years back and the lady on the phone tells me I got to mail the money order. This is kind of a red flag to me because we live in a technology driven world and there's no way to do an online transaction? Anyhoo, I buy the money order and put a tracking number to ensure that the money order gets there. A couple days later I check in with them after I see that the money order arrived and they giving me the run around. She asked the mail guy to check the tracking number and he said it was still in the post office, bruh the lies cause I had just checked before I got on the phone. I asked to speak to a supervisor and the dude gets mad at me and hangs up because I was trying to resolve this issue with this money order in order to pay my tuition. At this point after pay this tuition I'm probably going to switch to another school cause everyone I talked to so far are douche bags and I'm still trying to resolve the situation. I wish I could give it zero stars! ZERO STARS MY GUY.

Speaking as a non-degree seeking student, I STRONGLY suggest you earn your credits at another institution if at all possible. And if it isn't possible...try your VERY BEST to make it possible. IF you are attending with scholarship or some sort of financial assistance, then perhaps this school will suit you as the daily trials and tribulations may not affect you as much, since you aren't attending on your own dime. I enrolled for two 2016 summer courses to TRANSFER back into my old University. I paid the full NY resident tuition- approx. $2000 for 7 credits. The very moment I handed over my application for admission I began to feel the pangs of regret in my stomach. 1. The administrative staff are poised to tell you "NO" for any and everything. They show up to work for a paycheck and nothing more. If you think you will receive any sort of guidance or help from anyone in the registrars office, admissions office, health services office, student ID office or even the library...you are absolutely wrong. These departments are the core of any college institution- how can they employ such crass, disrespectful and unhelpful humans? There are nicer and more qualified folks out here who would give a right arm to work at BMCC...and would likely still do a better job...with just one arm. 2. The professors are extremely disengaged. I realize they are also paid very low salaries, but this just contributes to the culture of laziness and uninspired students. 3. I also paid for official transcripts to be sent to my university in mid-july-- it's now mid-august and my school has not received transcripts from BMCC yet. There didn't seem to be ANY DELAYS when BMCC configured my bill and request for payment. When you call the offices, after being transferred or hung up on several times, YOU MIGHT reach someone who claims they did what they were supposed to do (in this case, sending out my transcripts), but you know deep down inside that you're talking to a 19 year old who's probably there for work study between nursing classes and doesn't give a shit if your transcripts were sent out or not. Final thoughts, the entire place is bubbling with people who are just clocking in to pay the bills. *hint hint* This MAY be a big factor in why BMCC is having such a tough time with retention/drop out rates. No one cares.

I spend more time here then I do my home. Its been a long yet exciting road as I pursue a second career but I'm glad I chose BMCC to do it. The staff at BMCC has always been very nice (with a few exceptions) and I even have great relationships with a couple of the security and maintenance staff. My only real "beef" about BMCC is that the do a mediocre job of maintaining their technology infrastructure. There is always a problem with a computer, copier, printer, scanner.......and the problems are rarely taken care of in a short period of time. Clearly they don't have the right staff or are understaffed, either reason is unacceptable because I pay to have those resources available. Having said that, I do still enjoy my time here and the relationships have been fortunate to make.

For some textbooks, you can find them free online for electronic pdfs. Some students prefer the physical copy but it's free online no hassle. The buildings are great. The Fiterman building is where you should take your classes. There are couches in the Fiterman building. The bathrooms are not as clean since other people like to shyt all over the toilet. In terms of the main building, it's older but still really big. The bathrooms are cleaner in the main building. The people who work there dont know what their doing mainly. So be careful, make sure you declare your major, looks up professors for A's, you'll be fine. It's highly competitive with immigrants getting 4.0 GPAs. But overall, the professors are great and nice. The buildings are really big and clean.

I have mixed feelings about this school. As far as the the location: it's a A+. All three building's are walking distances from each other meaning you should never be late. The newest building Fiterman is a wonderful building, try to get all your classes there at least. As far as administration, they could be a little bit on the lazy side and confusing. You either get someone who don't know what they're doing on sending you to someone else. Bursars vs Financial office war! They send you back and fourth between each other with no answers at all about your money. It's highly annoying when neither one can tell you information about payments or your aid. Teachers are okay. I actually had some nice ones and some horrible ones. I don't know what requirements you need to be a professor here, but I've had a couple classes without studying, without even touching a book or putting my all in an essay and passed with an A because they teachers really just want their check and to go home, then you have the idiotic professors who try's to belittle you as you're a child or dumb. I even had a racist teacher before. So don't know how they get hired honestly. It's pretty easy to make friends here, social life is pretty nice. Students are friendly but keep in mind that everyone here varies in age and maturity. Most of them are fresh out of high school. This school is near everything also. McDonalds, Chiptole, Duane Reade, Post office & UPS to return your rentals! Overall, I wouldn't reccomend graduating from this school, I transferred to Hunter. But the school isn't bad for the money, just research your teachers before taking them, get advised as soon as possible, if you get a good teacher, get in close with them, you can have them as references like I do. Good luck lol!

I figured I would finally leave this review here now that I'm completely done with college. I never received my AA here and I didn't want to, I just wanted to transfer to a four year and leave this school as soon as possible. As someone else mentioned, everything is just so disorganized and those who are supposed to help you always seem so bothered by having to answer important questions. I had an advisor who never told me, in detail, which classes were very important, so I just took any class that "made sense." My very first semester, I was ready to tackle five classes but because I didn't know any better, I listened to some woman who told me to only take three classes because "five is too much." Why did I listen to her? Psht, you're asking the wrong person. But if you are reading this and you're debating on taking 18 credits for your first semester at any class.. JUST DO IT! *Shia Labeouf voice* because your first few classes of your entire college career will always be the easiest. They're all introductory classes. The students were very self-absorbed. The main reason why I wanted to go to school in the city was because I wanted to get away from everyone and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make friends. Boy oh boy was I wrong! The personalities and lifestyles of some of the students were the completely opposite of mine. Yes, I love meeting different people but there is something seriously wrong when students think they can come to school reeking of marijuana and god knows what else. In classes, they acted as if they were still in high school (talking back to professors, not doing assignments). It's like they were there because they were forced to by their parents, not because they wanted to. They are also very "to themselves." I didn't expect city kids to not be so welcoming or helpful. I was just expecting something totally different. I guess you can say I didn't make any lifelong friends during my fun stay at this school. I had an okay experience with my professors. If you're a criminal justice major, I would suggest that you take Shirley Leyro for Criminology. She is just amazing and I will never forget her. She was one of the most memorable professors I had. I should go back and review my transcripts and maybe I'll see the names of all my professors but her and my speech professor, a very young Madonna fan, were the best professors I had during my first two years of college. I always remember the ones that made waking up early in the morning worth it. Okay, back to how completely unprofessional these folks are. When you call the bursars office, they don't answer. You'd assume they're busy, right? False. Try going to the bursar and calling them right in their office and watch them completely ignore the phones. The only good thing about the school is the area. TriBeCa is a beautiful area full of filthy rich men and women (for you lady Yelpers out there looking for a sugar daddy to pay that tuition lmao). All the time during my breaks, I would go sit at Battery Park.. And contemplate whether I should just go ahead and get one, too (just kidding.. *hangs head in shame*). But all jokes aside, the school would be so much better if they simply hired professors and advisors who actually wanted to be there. I felt that because it was a community college, they just didn't care and expected us not to care either. In return, a lot of students weren't/aren't getting the proper assistance they need. The school seriously has potential, they just need to do better. Two stars because of those two professors that made my time there worth it. One star = one professor.

BEWARE!!! This school will delay your educational goals. This school will push an associate's degree on you in your pursuits to transferring to a 4 year school to obtain a bachelor's degree. The problem is when it is time to transfer you will not have the required classes to enroll in the 4 year school because you took worthless classes at BMCC. I was continuously advised to get an associate's degree even though my intentions to transfer were known. Two and a half years later when it was time to transfer, there wasn't a credible school that would accept me because they each said that I needed specific classes that were not a part of BMCC curriculum for an associate's. Now I'm in year 4 of a 2 year program at BMCC. FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TRANSFER TO A FOUR YEAR SCHOOL IN ACCOUNTING, MAJOR IN BUSINESS AT THIS SCHOOL!!! The classes needed for an associate's in business administration will help you transfer easier to a 4 year school as an accounting major. Wish someone would have told me that 4 years ago. When you speak to certain departments at the school, they tend to "pass the buck", give you a rude response, give you the answer to your question that fits their agenda, or won't know the answers to your questions of their respective departments. So now I have to continue this forever process at this school or settle for a sub par school. This is coming from a student with a 3.5 GPA and who only applied to SUNY schools or local NYC schools (NOT IVIES). Hope this helps someone.

Things here are so unorganized. Most of the departmental admin staff will talk to you like you're not worth their time for asking questions. Everything is incredibly uncoordinated and unclear. Expect to be shuffled between the Bursar, Financial Aid, and your department about 20 times before you can settle your finances. Financial Aid staff will throw forms at you that you don't need and don't apply to you just to get you out of their way, after you've stood in line for an hour and a half. For science classes, expect to shell out your first born. Text books can rarely be bought used now because of registration codes that are only good once. Maybe 7 or 8 out of the 12 or so professors I've had here seem invested in their students and jobs, which is really a decent percentage. Though probably the worst part is BMCC's online system for email, class management, and blackboard. You will need 3 different user names and passwords for these. They're uncoordinated, incredibly unfriendly for users and hard to navigate, and frequently don't work. Academically I think the school has some really positive things going for it. However if you can't afford or navigate the system, that starts to matter a bit less. I am, at least for now, attending as a second degree student and many of the classes I've taken have been worth the time. (Though tutoring services can be severely lacking.) I mean it could be worse, and the school does have some merits, but the ineffective bureaucracy of it all is a serious hurdle.

Please Somebody close that school. Or fire all their employees! The administration office workers are just awful. They are Lazy. disinterested, clueless and rude. You can't get a hand of them when you need them. The VA rep (Padua) is nowhere to be found. I visited her office everydays for 2 weeks now, she is never there (on office hours). Please fire her! People save your money or get good grades in high-school, so that you don't have to put up with that crappy school.

This school is total shit. Its not even school, I don't know how to describe it... Desperate teachers, delinquent students..AVOID. Can't wait to transfer!

BMCC isn't terrible, but I agree with the person who said "you get what you pay for." It's great if you're working full time and need a part time option to help you switch careers (as in my case), but you have to keep in mind it's a Community College, and you'll just have a work a little harder at making it a valuable experience. Yes, some of my Professors have been total let downs (AVOID Prof. Boian for Sociology AT ALL COSTS!!!!), but others have been surprisingly wonderful (Dr. Haynes for Anatomy & Physiology 1 & 2 is incredible). If you have half a brain, you will get annoyed by the disrespectful children at this school - that's probably the hardest hurdle and I feel they often MAKE the Professors jaded and useless, but if you can overcome that, you can get through achieving a degree at BMCC and move on to greener pastures. The facilities are surprisingly useful - as in the library, the pool, the computer labs, etc. and the tuition is nice and cheap. I was pleasantly surprised to participate in such fascinating science labs as well (we've dissected a sheep's eye, brain, heart, kidney and a fetal pig, for example). Also, it's a CUNY so it's pretty simple to transfer to a more reputable 4 year CUNY down the road (or so I hear - that's my plan anyway) - so those are pluses but avoid the cafeteria unless you want dog food wrapped in plastic for lunch - that food is absolutely disgusting. And try to research your professors - ESPECIALLY for 100-level courses since the majority of the students will be 18-19 year old freshmen with absolutely no college experience that only a GOOD Prof will know how to control. The 400-level courses aren't nearly as bad in this category. Good luck!

I think everyone is getting the wrong impression on reviewing the school based on the department services...this school is great, 3 campus in an ideal great location of TriBeCa, all the necessities are nearby such as banks, bookstores and eateries and you get a great view of jersey and the freedom tower. The prof I've had were nice, guess you guys have to do some research and overall clean school not to many disruptions with the exception of the lunch room and Fiterman is awesome!!!

I attended a specialized high school, Brooklyn Tech. I then received a scholarship to a 4 year college. Unfortunately, I flunked out of that school. Rather than to give up in life, I tried to pick up the pieces and start over at a community college. In hindsight, I regret going to BMCC. BMCC is right across the street from the über-elite Stuyvesant High School. The kids who attend Stuy are so haughty and vain. They act like they're better than the BMCC students. Even at the McDonalds on Chambers Street, there's a section where Stuy kids sit at and a section where BMCC students sit at. Fortunately, the rest of Tribeca is nice. There are a plethora of cafes, bookstores, and spas. There is also a bike path along the West Side Highway. Most of the non-math professors at BMCC are pretty good. In fact, there are some classes that are ridiculously easy. In one English class, we spent half the semester watching DVD's. I received an A in that class. The math classes vary in quality. Professor Teixeira is the male version of Erin Gruwell's character in Freedom Writers. He will go above and beyond to make sure you understand the material. His homework assignments are long and you have to study for the exams, but the vast majority of the students in his class get A- and above (to show you the type of guy he is, he once expressed disappointment when someone got a 65 on his exam). I don't think anyone got less than a B- in Teixeira's class (I think you can ascertain that I got an A in his class). Another math professor that I had was Professor Reese, who basically passes everyone regardless of the amount of work they do. On the other hand, I had a math professor, Barbara Lawrence, who said she doesn't tutor during office hours. Ok then, so what's the point of your office hours? She also insulted my intelligence. After a month of her bitchy attitude, I dropped her class. I had another math professor, Pierre, who was more concerned with telling jokes in class than teaching. And don't bother going to the math lab for tutoring- the tutors don't care whether you pass or not. They just care about getting a paycheck. The people in the administration office aren't really obnoxious, but some of them are clueless. The food in the cafeteria isn't that great, but there are a million places to eat at on Chambers Street. BMCC has a few lame parties, but overall campus life is lacking (what do you expect from a community college?). It's only fair that I mention that they have a decent gym. The student body is diverse. There are some people who treat BMCC like the 13th grade. There are other people who receive straight A's at BMCC and then transfer to NYU or Columbia. Quite a few students are older adults who work during the day and then go to class at night and on weekends. I really want to give this school a higher rating. I currently attend CUNY Law School. However, I began my studies at BMCC as an Engineering Science major. I passed all of the Engineering Science courses at BMCC except for Differential Equations. That course had only one instructor, Lawrence, who was the spawn of Satan. I eventually passed Differential Equations at City College before leaving the engineering field. The cruel irony is that Professor Teixeira's office was right next to her office (if Teixeira taught Differential Equations, I'd give BMCC a 5).

There are some great professors. There are some not great professors. But the administrative offices? SH*T SHOW. I tried to transfer in to get some prereqs and had a woman in admissions screaming at me for half an hour without ever letting me speak or answer her questions. IT problem? Wait in an hour long line. Same for ... well any of the departments. So if you get in - and manage to get a rare, available class - count your blessings and pray you'll never have to speak to someone about a problem.

It's been exactly 1 year since I left BMCC, but I can give a thorough review. The school is in a great location, and the overall atmosphere is cosmopolitan. There are many train stations nearby that make it accessible for everyone, whether you live in Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, or Staten Island. The streets are always crowded and flowing with life. There's a health-store literally directly in front of the campus, with a bookstore above. There is a coffee-store, a sandwich restaurant, and a pizza parlor one block away. There are numerous panhandlers selling cheap batteries, wallets, and headphones on the streets. You also have a gorgeous park located at the back of school, with a view of the Statue of Liberty and the Hudson River. I recommend taking a stroll down there whenever you have a break in between classes. The tuition is cheap, at about $2,000 per semester (compared to $3,000 a semester at a senior CUNY college). Thus, you can save money by going here for 2 years and then transferring to a Senior college. The school offers various facilities, such as computer labs, swimming pools, a library, and a gym. The problem is that the school is over-crowded. To use a computer, for example, you either have to come in early (9:00 AM) or come in late (8:00 PM). If you come in the evenings, then expect to wait in line for a long time; and when you try to print, it gets hectic because many others are trying to print at the same time. The school has classes available at all times. I once had a class that finished at 10:00 PM, and I once had a class that began at 9:00 AM. I even had Sunday classes (which I do not recommend; the place is a ghost town on the day). No matter what your situation may be, you can create a schedule that works for you. The night classes tend to have older students with families / children / work-life, and the early classes tend to have younger students. The professors are variegated. I encountered some good ones who truly did their jobs and taught with care and professionalism. On the other hand, I encountered others who habitually ended class 10-15 minutes early after giving a lifeless lecture. Some professors placed rules, such as no cell-phones, that maintained a class-room environment. Others let students sleep, eat food, send text messages, and wear I-pods. Some professors also swore and made offensive jokes during class. The students are not good people. As the school uses an open-admissions policy, you will encounter people who will tease others, cheat on exams, shout in the hallways, and run around like animals. In my freshman year, I once saw two guys almost get into a fight for some nonsense. Just do as I did: Come in, mind your business, get an A+ in the class, and leave. Don't try to develop contacts at BMCC. Overall, BMCC is a decent school to save money and get some easy college credits before transferring to a 4 year institution. It's not much better than any other community college, but it's also not much worse.

As far as I am concerned, the great majority of these reviews are USELESS, and should be taken with a grain of salt. BMCC has been a pleasant surprise for me. Background info: I took two years off straight out of high school to travel, work, etc. I initially had no desire to study after high school because I was DRAINED. Traveling and working in retail really made me realize that I wanted to study and it made me realize WHAT I wanted to study, which is sociology. I ended up going to BMCC because there is no use in shelling out big bucks in order to get your bachelors, and should I want to go out of state or to a private school, I wanted to cut down on the potential cost as much as possible. Personally, I found getting in extremely smooth and was no problem. I was respectful to everyone and got respect back from every department member I spoke to. When I started classes, I was a bit bougie and didn't want to be seen going in just because the school has a terrible reputation, because it's a community college, but I soon learned that that's all because of ignorance. Education in this country is rarely based on merit, and all about money, so it's actually SMART to start off at a community college. Sure, there are people there who mooch off the financial aid, but the great deal of people I've met actually want to do better things with their lives. The professors that are available to us are for the most part, HIGHLY qualified in their fields. All of my professors last semester had doctorates and were extremely accommodating and smart. To sum it all up, I've had a great time my first year and I'm scheduled to graduate next year. If you're serious about your education, and finances, go for it. This school gives great options and if you work hard and make the best out of your experience, you will surely succeed. I'm excited to see what's going to happen next year for my transfer and will update this review once that's all decided. Good luck!

As an au pair I booked my travel class here with my friends. I paid $740 for this included was: 5 days of education about New Orleans and visit the city, a multiple day stay in a hotel in New Orleans with breakfast and a guided tour through the city. Fast forward to now (corona time) I get about 3.5 days of ONLINE class and NO trip to New Orleans. They leave us completely in the dark to get refunds for the flights we had to book ourselves to New Orleans. Struggling to get a refund while many au pairs in this class obviously have English as their second language. This was told to us by E-mail one week before our first classes started. We got the classes through some Zoom meeting with inexperienced teachers that couldn't even steer away from their regular script and kept saying "when we are in New Orleans you gotta try this!" And "when you're in New Orleans this is a must visit!" Knowing that we probably never get to see the city. We did get a refund. A grand total of 239 dollars for the hotel we won't visit and the tour we won't get and the classes we now have to take digitally. So they basically made us pay $500 for 3.5 days of crappy online classes and a whole lot of homework assignments about a city we won't visit. And called it a deal. My experience with this business is terrible and I won't recommend it to anyone, if it's somehow canceled you're screwed and left in the dark.

I went to this school BMCC in the early 80s and I loved the campus especially the indoor pool oh I almost forgot to mention the studies were real good.

The school is fairly easy compared to 4 year colleges but the people here are amazing! MOST of the professors I took were awesome! The school is smaller therefore more organized and you'll get the help you need as long as you reach for it. I have no regrets going here, all 63 of my credits transferred to Baruch. (Of course you should carefully pick classes that are towards your major) I miss my awesome counselor, Dr. Faison.

Everyone calls this place "13th grade". The name is definitely appropriate. Cheap credits here....and they will take anybody with a HS diploma/GED. I took a few classes here to bring up my GPA. You definitely get what you pay for. If you are lucky you will get a professor that is at least semi-invested in your education. Most likely you will get someone who half asses teaching and then will give you an easy final exam...so although you may not learn anything, going to BMCC for a semester or two is a great way to bring up your GPA with minimal effort. Like the other reviewers said, don't count on getting help from administration (again, you get what you pay for). Emails and phone calls will never get answered and even going to the offices in person is usually unsuccessful. No one will look out for you so if you are the type that needs a little hand holding steer clear of BMCC.

Being that this is my first semester at BMCC, I have been pleasantly surprised with this school. My first thought was that it was going to be a big school where I would get lost in and never find my class. Fortunately for me everyone there is helpful and its easy to navigate your way around the school. Definitely finishing my associates degree here..... Their moto, "start here, go anywhere"

A wonderful place to get your feet wet when considering higher education. Its in the heart of lower Manhattan, it has the best veiws. Shopping options are hands down the best in town.

2 stars? Really? I love this school. I am not sure what everyones problem is. This is my alma mater and i never thought in a million years that my experience would have been so rewarding as it turned out to be. I remember before applying to this school that many people told me to stay away. I was told the students weren't the brightest or well mannered, but i applied anyways. In fact, the students are the most interesting part of this school. They make this school what it is. I met some of the coolest people of my academic career at BMCC. Everyone was Latin, black, or Blatino, and they made class sooooo much FUN! Class discussions were so interesting and it was great seeing sociology from someone else's perspective. I met some of the best professors at this school too. At times, it felt like the 13th grade, but i didn't care. The building is situated on Chambers Street in the heart of Tribeca (where Mariah Carey and Robert DeNiro live) and there were some night restaurants in the area as well. The location couldn't have been any better. The cafeteria food is oh soooo yummy, greasy, and unhealthy. I remember looking forward to their breakfast food every time i had weekend classes. The highlight of my time here was when someone asked me if they could use their financial aid money on the cheese fries. I wish this was a 4 year school. At times, i didn't even want to graduate because coming to class and mingling with everyone was so much FUN. I wish i was still attending classes there today. Too bad i couldn't say the same for my senior college. That place on the other hand was like Dante's Inferno.

I graduated from Saint Raymond HS for Boys just a year ago. Sadly, I regret going to BMCC when Mercy College had it doors open for me. It's small size of the college that prevented me from attending. PLEASE GET YOUR GRADES UP IN H.S. SO YOU WONT END UP GOING TO THIS "COLLEGE". This isn't a college. It's a high school disguise as a college. If your still peak-in-high school this college is right for you. The classes feel like high school classes. If your taking a remedial class, chances are you'll be stuck with a group of immature children who still act like there in middle school . If your trying to make friends here, your out of luck because everyone going to the school and go & some thinks there all that. So it's best if you stick with the friends/people you went to high school with or wait to make friends at a four year school. Some (not all) of the professors think they big shots teaching at Yale or Harvard. The teaching is very poor & useless. Half the faculty are incompetent, rude & disrespectful. Most of them are worried about there paychecks more then the students future. I had an advisor in the English department (blonde woman, glasses, skinny, average height) who was nice but post-first semester last year asked me what classes was I supposed to take. Like are you kidding me?!? How would I know when it's her job to find out!! The cafeteria food is overpriced & the restaurants outside are expensive. There are Halal carts all over campuses that charged only $5 for a plate.

Well, the big problem seems to be money. According to collegemeasures.org, it costs about $10,600 per full-time student at BMCC, and that is apparently based on what the college collects. But the college's budget suggests that money is not all spent on students. Taking together all the full-time and part-time students, it looks like there are the equivalent of about 17,500 students with a budget of not quite $120,000,000 -- about $6,800 per full-time student. One in three dollars is disappearing? The good news is, three-quarters of the faculty are outsiders; they come to college because they like to teach, among other things. They have a life outside the college -- unlike full-time faculty, who put in their 20 hours or so, then go home to do "research". This means they may even understand student problems, among other things.

The school has some fun people (and even then, it's more of a High School atmosphere than a college one), but that's about it. It's extremely mismanaged. To put into perspective, I need to get a copy of my transcript. I'm going on day 2 trying to get a hold of them. Yesterday, I called and there were 7 people ahead of me on the phone, so it says you can have them call you back. Hours later, they call me back and the call drops immediately. After which, there were literally 31 people ahead of me in queue and I tried once again for them to call me back. When they did, I was in queue and it wouldn't tell me how many people were ahead. I waited for 20 minutes on the phone before the call dropped. Today, there were only 4 people ahead of me and I'm at around 2 hours, still waiting. And if you think going up there is any better, think again. The lines often go out the door. I've had my classes dropped mid-semester, teachers who grade based on their personal opinion, and staff is totally negligent. If you care about your education, go elsewhere.

I am the freshman here, everything was disorganized here and you might get the different answers from different employees. The Fiterman Hall Accounting Department front desk lady is so rude and not helpful at all, she aways gets mad easily and refuse to answer questions. Luckily most of the Professors are nice thought.

Most of the professors I've taken were great. Most were very respectful, actually liked teaching and actually helped. I especially liked the Science Department because the professors there were my favorite out of all the other subjects. As you can see, I gave 2 stars. Professors saved it from being 1. The reason it's low is because of the horrible administrative office. They act very smug and disrespectful as if students are a hassle. If you bother them, they will make you walk all over the school for even the most simple tasks.