About Hofstra University

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Hofstra University is a private academe in Hempstead, New York. Long Island’s largest private university, Hofstra originated in 1935 as an elaboration of New York University (NYU) under the say Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island. It became independent Hofstra College in 1939 and gained university circles status in 1963. Comprising ten schools, including the Northwell School of Medicine and Deane School of Law, Hofstra has hosted a series of prominent presidential conferences and several United States presidential debates.

The Town of Hempstead is one of the three towns in Nassau County in the U.S. state of New York. It occupies the southwestern part of the county, in the western half of Long Island. Twenty-two incorporated villages (one of which is named Hempstead) are utterly or partially within the town. The town’s mass population was 759,757 at the 2010 census, which is the majority of the population of the county and by far afield the largest of any town in New York. In 2019, its sum up population increased to an estimated 759,793 according to the American Community Survey.

If Hempstead were to be incorporated as a city, it would be the second-largest city in New York, behind New York City; it is on zenith of three era the size of Buffalo, which has long been the state’s second-largest city. It would be the 18th-largest city in the country, behind Indianapolis, Indiana and ahead of Seattle, Washington. Hempstead is so the most populous municipality in the New York metropolitan area outside New York City.

Hofstra University’s main campus is located in Hempstead.