 The college was founded in 1964 by educational pioneer Audrey Cohen as the Women's Talent Corp and was renamed the College for Human Services in 1970, when it was granted a charter by the New York State Board of Regents.It started offering business programs in 1983 and its first graduate programs in 1988.It was renamed Audrey Cohen College in honor of its founder in 1992 and Metropolitan College of New York in 2002.