Student Discounts

On campus

CUNY campuses across the five boroughs offer an array of galleries, museums, and performance stages. Check the CUNY events calendar here or visit campus websites below for select venues and/or a detailed schedule of events.

• Campus Venues
• Campus Events

Brooklyn

• Brooklyn College
• Kingsborough Community College
• Medgar Evers College
• City Tech

Bronx 

• Bronx Community College
• Hostos Community College
• Lehman College

Manhattan

• Baruch College
• Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Craig Newmark School of Journalism
• The Graduate Center
• Hunter College (Kaye Playhouse)
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• The City College of New York

Queens

• La Guardia Community College (LPAC)
• Queens College (Kupferberger Center)
• Queensborough Community College
• York College

Staten Island 

College of Staten Island

The following venues offer free, reduced, or suggested (pay what you wish) admission pricing to CUNY students. Visit CUNY Arts or CUNY Cultural Corps for further details.

• American Folk Art Museum
• American Museum of Natural History
• BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
• Bronx County Historic Society
• Bronx Museum of the Arts
• The Bronx Zoo
• Brooklyn Botanical Garden
• Brooklyn Museum
• Carnegie Hall-Student Insider
• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
• The Cloisters
• El Museo Del Barrio
• Flushing Town Hall
• The Frick Collection
• International Print Center
• Intrepid Museum
• The Jewish Museum
• The Met
• Museum of the City of NY
• Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• Museum of the Moving Image
• National Museum of the American Indian
• NY Aquarium
• The New York Public Library for Performing Arts
• Queens Botanical Garden
• Queens Museum of Art
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• The Sculpture Center
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center + Botanical Garden
• Socrates Sculpture Park
• Staten Island Museum
• Storefront for Art & Architecture
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• Water Front Museum
• Wave Hill Gardens
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Yeshiva University Museum

Arts & Culture 

• NYC-Arts.org (Scroll for free things on specific days of the week.)
• New York Public Library
  Students are eligible for a New York Public Library (NYPL) card if you live, work or attend school in NYC. In addition to accessing books, a NY Public Library Card may also get you free entry into some museums and events.  For more information and/or to apply for a NY Public Library card visit the link here.
• Signature Theater: Signature’s Student Membership is a new initiative dedicated to providing access to students from grade school through graduate school and beyond. Memberships are free to sign up, and members will receive a host of Student Member benefits including:
  • $20 student tickets and $30 guest tickets for all Signature productions
  • Advanced booking for special Student Nights for each production
  • Access to student-centered special events including artist talks, masterclasses, backstage tours and more!
  • A discount at Signature’s café and bookstore

  More information can be found on their website, and students can sign up here.

Electronics 

Best Buy Student Deals

Fashion

Retail store student discounts [require valid student ID or email address].

• Banana Republic (15% off)
• Club Monaco (15% off items in store & online)
• Dockers (25% off)
• Levi’s (25% off)

Sports & Fitness

New York Sports Club offers student discounts for select memberships after filling out a student membership inquiry on their website.

Travel & Transportation

• Amtrak
• General Motors offers college students and recent graduates various discounts that can save you hundreds or even thousands on new and preowned vehicles
• NJ Transit Student Pass Registration Form
  • NJ Transit Student Pass Instructions
• Student Universe

News

Free subscriptions to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are available to all CUNY students.