Universities in Shirley

Dowling College-Brookhaven Campus
Founded in 1955 as part of Adelphi College's outreach to Suffolk county, the College purchased the former W.K. Vanderbilt estate in Oakdale in 1962. In 1968 the College severed its ties with Adelphi and was renamed after its chief benefactor, Robert Dowling, a noted city planner and aviator. Dowling College now serves more than 7,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students thro…