John Jay began with a single major; it now has 27 (along with 40 minors).
The John Jay Athletics Hall of Fame includes the college's only Olympian, kayaker Stephen Kelly (BS '72).
He competed in the 1972 and 1976 Olympiads.
John Jay's first home at the New York City Police Academy had no women's restroom.
The proposal to create the College of Police Science, as John Jay was first known,
was approved by the City University on June 15, 1964.
Because of its overwhelmingly in-service student body,
John Jay was once the only public college in New York that cancelled classes on St. Patrick’s Day.
The English Department is the college’s largest academic department. The Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration is the oldest.
North Hall was John Jay’s first non-rental home. The building was once a shoe factory.
The baseball team won John Jay's first conference championship, in 1978.
The theatrical club, founded in 1966, is the oldest continuously active student organization.
Alumna Beatrice Wilkinson Welters (MA '78) has served as U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago since 2010.
Alumnus Petri Hawkins Byrd (AS '79, BS '89) is the "world's best-known bailiff," working alongside Judge Judy Sheindlin in her TV courtroom.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson are all John Jay alumni.
The John Jay faculty includes two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors: Professors Michael Wallace and John Matteson.
Longtime Professor Jane Katz introduced synchronized swimming to the Olympics as a demonstration sport in 1964.
Science Professor Lawrence Kobilinsky is ranked as one of the top 15 DNA analysis professors in the United States.
The John Jay student body includes representatives of 52 foreign countries. (as of June 2013)
John Jay’s first graduate program, the Master of Public Administration was created in 1967.
The John Jay Athletics program has produced four All-Americans, all from the 1970 pistol team: Bill Allard, Charlie Denis, Ed Kavanaugh and Augie Lucente.
John Jay’s first graduating class, in 1966, comprised 118 students. In May 2014, more than 3,000 students received John Jay degrees.
The first all-baccalaureate freshman class entered John Jay in 2010.
Throughout its history, John Jay has offered courses at satellite locations including West Point, Riker’s Island, the police academy in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, and various New York City police precincts.
The Interdisciplinary Studies Program began in 1972 as a grant-funded experimental-teaching initiative.
In 1970, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover forced 15 agents to drop out of John Jay due to a professor’s criticism of the Bureau.
The College of Police Science was renamed John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 1967.
John Jay began awarding honorary doctorates at Commencement in 1977.
In addition to its current 15 varsity athletic teams, John Jay has at various times also fielded teams in rowing, ice hockey, wrestling, fencing, bowling, paddleball and handball.
The John Jay Bloodhounds are ranked among the “Top 20 Coolest-Named College Sports Teams.”
1-800-FLOWERS founder and CEO Jim McCann is a John Jay alumnus (and John Jay Foundation trustee).
John Jay’s United Nations Student Association has won top honors for 10 consecutive years at the National Model United Nations Conference.
Former John Jay student Thomas Hetzel swam the English Channel successfully eight times — more than any other American swimmer — and completed 12 circumnavigations of Manhattan island.
John Jay’s new building, which opened in November 2011, comprises more than 620,000 square feet of classrooms, offices, labs and gathering spaces.
The roster of honorary doctoral recipients from John Jay includes former U.S. senators and representatives, a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists, and Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winners.
John Jay President Jeremy Travis served as Director of the National Institute of Justice in the Clinton Administration.
John Jay graduates were accepted to 63 law schools for the entering Class of 2014, and received more than $9.4 million in scholarship awards.
Graduation 2015
Educating for Justice Gala
Alumni Reunion - 50th Anniversary Events 
John Jay Athletics: 2014 Homecoming: 
Alexandre Dang Exhibit
Acts of Justice Community Service Drive
Li'l Jay Campaign
