Poly officially becomes NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

At a celebration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Thursday, Poly, the college known by different names to different generations of Brooklynites, officially became the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, completing the school’s merger with New York University. The ceremony had originally been scheduled for Jan. 3rd but was rescheduled due to weather at the time.  

Graduates of the new Engineering school will now receive NYU diplomas. NYU formally affiliated in 2008 and both boards voted to complete the merger in 2012, according to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

To people of Brooklyn at a different era, it was Brooklyn Polytech — see this 1986 profile by the New York Times — and affectionately has come to be known as NYU-Poly in recent years. The full transition, which began Jan. 1, comes at a good time for the Poly program: interest in its STEM roots and Brooklyn location are coveted today in a way they weren’t even 10 years ago. It’s a good time to be absorbed into one of New York’s best respected schools.