New York University is a private university founded in 1831 that offers associate, undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees across disciplines including arts and sciences, business, law, medicine, education, nursing, and engineering. Its student body includes tens of thousands of students, and its programs serve degree-seeking students in New York and at campuses and academic centers in places including Brooklyn, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. The university’s principal center is its Washington Square campus in Greenwich Village, and it operates multiple Manhattan campuses as well as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn.