The mission of the Metropolitan Learning Institute is "to see each graduate prepared with the drive, academic education, theoretical background, practical hands-on experience and knowledge of the field which he or she needs to successfully compete for employment in today’s business and healthcare environment”. The Metropolitan Learning Institute was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in December of 1996. It is a non-profit post-secondary Adult Career school, fully licensed and accredited at the NY State and national levels. The school has two campuses in New York City-in Queens and in Brooklyn- and serves a widely varied student body of recent immigrants and U.S. Citizens.