Long Island University's premium education makes for golden opportunities

Long Island University (LIU) is one of the nation's largest private universities, recognised for its commitment to engaged learning and student entrepreneurship. It is fitting that many of LIU's most forward-thinking initiatives to envelop its students in the entrepreneurial mindset are housed on a campus named after America's first entrepreneur: LIU Post, built on the Gold Coast estate of cereal pioneer Charles William Post's daughter and successor, Marjorie Merriweather Post.

With its gilded-age glamour immortalised in F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, the Gold Coast is the site of stately mansions and lush private estates built by some of America's most historically prominent families. Home to the likes of the Astors, Vanderbilts and Woolworths at the turn of the 20th century, it has earned its place in history and geography as one of the world's most fashionable locations - an iconic landmark of America's wealth and power in close proximity to New York City, the cultural and financial capital of the world. 

LIU Post draws upon the resources of the Gold Coast and the Post estate to create the perfect learning environment for fostering academic excellence and professional development, with athletic fields, an equestrian facility, and educational and residential buildings amid the estate's rolling green hills, gardens and Tudor-style mansion. 

The Post campus is one of LIU's strategically located educational hubs spanning the New York metropolitan area, including LIU Brooklyn, located in the heart of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle. The university also operates LIU Global, the only college in the world that combines full-time immersion into foreign cultures in eight or more countries on four continents, with structured classroom instruction, field study, internships and community service.

"LIU Post has a proud tradition as a leader in business education," says university president Dr Kimberly Cline. "From the founding of the nation's first School of Professional Accountancy to an AACSB-accredited School of Business ranked among the Princeton Review's 'Best Business Schools', we are constantly planning the next step forward to create the best possible experience for our students."

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