Hunter College students want Starbucks to take their lattes and shove them!

Students at the City University of New York school are protesting a Hunter proposal to install a Starbucks on their campus saying it doesn’t serve the needs of a public college.

“The coffee is overpriced,” said Briana Calderon Navarro, 25, a senior from Brooklyn. “Most students honestly can’t afford the coffee at Starbucks.”

Navarro has been leading the charge against the coffee giant, saying there was already a cafeteria and cafe on campus selling coffee as well as bookstore across the street and sidewalk vendors with cheap Joe.

“Three blocks away is a Starbucks,” she said. “We don’t need another coffee shop.”

Instead, students would prefer utilizing the 2,000 square foot space at Lexington Avenue and 67th Street as an art gallery or food pantry for the Hunter community, she said, adding a student art show there last spring had been very successful.

Some students said they just wanted a place to congregate on the crowded campus.

“We don’t need Starbucks. It wouldn’t be a student space. It would be a place for people on Lexington to get their coffee,” said Becca Tauscher, 25, a junior from Brooklyn. “Students are hanging out in the library because there isn’t anywhere else to just hang out.

Thomas Knapp, 19, a sophomore, called the Starbucks deal “brazen.”

“I feel like on a liberal college campus, you don’t want a big corporate name in a space that could be just for students,” Knapp said.

Leonard Blades, who voted against the deal as a student representative on CUNY’s facilities and planning committee, said students should have been involved in the planning process and there were Hunter groups that could have used the space.

“They’ve been wanting space for quite some time,” said Blades, 30, a graduate student.

Students plan to speak out against Starbucks at a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting Monday ahead of a planned board vote on the deal Feb. 3.

Kamalpreet Kaur, president of the Hunter Undergraduate Student Government, said in a statement to be given to the CUNY board Monday “we are not opposed to Starbucks moving into the space.”

Under the proposed lease, Starbucks would pay $411,390 a year for the first five years for 2,000 square feet on the ground level and 1,000 square feet on a lower level. But Hunter is providing up to $411,390 as a “tenant improvement allowance” toward construction costs, according to the resolution on the lease. It is also giving Starbucks an eight-month rent abatement to complete construction.

“That’s a great deal for Starbucks,” said Stacey Kelz, president of Stacey-Robins Realty Corp. “The free rent period is also very generous.”

A Hunter spokeswoman said the rental revenue would go to student programs.

Additional reporting by Melanie Gray