Editing Long Island (section)

===Colleges and universities===
{{See also|List of colleges and universities on Long Island|List of colleges and universities in New York City}}
[[File:Padreddii 000210 172220 517392 4578 (35949233074).jpg|thumb|A solar electric vehicle charging station at the [[New York Institute of Technology]]]]
Long Island is home to a range of [[higher education]] institutions, both public and private. Brooklyn and Queens contain five of eleven senior colleges within [[City University of New York|CUNY]], the public university system of New York City and one of the largest in the country. Among these are the notable institutions of [[Brooklyn College]] and [[Queens College]]. Brooklyn also contains private colleges such as [[Pratt Institute]] and the [[New York University Tandon School of Engineering]], the engineering school of [[New York University]].

Several colleges and universities within the [[State University of New York]] system are on Long Island, including [[Stony Brook University]], [[Nassau Community College]], and [[Suffolk County Community College]]. Notable private universities on Long Island include [[Molloy University]] in [[Rockville Centre]], the [[New York Institute of Technology]] in [[Old Westbury, New York|Old Westbury]], [[Hofstra University]] in [[Hempstead (village), New York|Hempstead]], [[Adelphi University]] in [[Garden City, New York|Garden City]], [[Long Island University]] (with its [[LIU Post|C.W. Post campus]] on a former Gold Coast estate in [[Brookville, New York|Brookville]] and a [[LIU Brooklyn|satellite campus]] in downtown Brooklyn), the [[Webb Institute]], a small naval architecture college in [[Glen Cove, New York|Glen Cove]], and the [[United States Merchant Marine Academy|U.S. Merchant Marine Academy]], a [[United States service academies|U.S. service academy]] in [[Kings Point, New York|Kings Point]], on the [[North Shore (Long Island)|North Shore]].