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If that were true, other urban schools with similar environments, like CUNY schools and Fordham Lincoln Center would also have high suicide rates, which they don’t. Also, the buildings are all close together and the students are hardly separated - the urban nature is probably a small factor. </p>
<p>NYU is the largest private school in the country, with almost 55,000 students. Cornell is also massive. In schools that large, there will simply be more suicides because there are more students. NYU suicides are also more publicized because of the manner in which the students chose to kill themselves. There have been a lot of particularly grisly deaths, don’t want go into details, but it wasn’t pretty. :(</p>