New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), founded in 1955, offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 100 fields of study. A non-profit independent, private institution of higher education, NYIT has more than 15,000 students attending campuses in Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at sites throughout the world. Nestled among more than a hundred wooded and landscaped acres, NYIT's Dorothy and Alexander Schure Old Westbury campus looks and feels like a private estate. In fact, the campus comprises several former North Shore estates.