But simply commuting to class had become an ordeal.
According to the nonprofit Complete College America, "75% of today's students are juggling some combination of families, jobs, and school while commuting to class; according to the U.S. Department of Education, only 25% go full-time, attend residential colleges, and have most of their bills paid by their parents".
Every year, tens of thousands of international students descend on the city for their studies, most likely with visions of strolling the Left Bank at dusk, taking regular outings to the Louvre, and passing any one of the city's astounding architectural landmarks while commuting to class.
We simply are not serving the new majority on campus - the 75percentt of students who are going to school part-time, juggling jobs and commuting to class.
Ilona Simpson, who took an EMBA at IESE business school in Spain, commuted to classes first from Germany and then from London.
They are not paid for the cost of commuting to their classes.
Many customers live nearby, but others commute to classes.
Of the college's 3,000 undergraduates, 933 of them will live on campus this fall, with the addition of the 358 beds in the new halls, a departure from the days when Iona's students mostly commuted to their classes.
With offline capabilities I can now make good use of that time, because I can continue to work on class-related activities while commuting to and from home.
In fact, we have often worried more about how they were commuting to school in Manhattan than how they were faring in class.
