Guide
Which campuses count as SUNY
This page lists State University of New York campuses that appear in the College Scorecard. The roster includes university centers such as Buffalo, Albany, Binghamton, and Stony Brook. It also includes community colleges whose names never say SUNY, plus Fashion Institute of Technology, Empire State University, and the health-science campuses. The table is alphabetical.
Cornell University is not SUNY. Cornell's contract colleges are not in this roster. The University at Buffalo is SUNY, and it is also New York's row on the flagship page. CUNY is the city system. A campus is not in both.
- Schools
- 59
- States
- 1
- New York
- Median admit rate
- 74%
- 26 report a rate
- Median earnings
- $47,341
- 10 years after entry
Scorecard campuses, including the quiet names
Matching only on the letters SUNY would drop Nassau Community College, Monroe Community College, and other campuses the system includes. The roster was built by matching official campus names to Scorecard records, then keeping those records.
Upstate Medical, Downstate, and the College of Optometry are in the roster. Some of them report little or no undergraduate enrollment. A blank undergraduate count means the file did not report one. It does not mean the campus was added by mistake.
Cornell and CUNY
Cornell University is an Ivy League university with a private Scorecard record. Statutory colleges at Cornell are a special legal arrangement. They are not rows in this roster. If you want Cornell, open Cornell. Do not look for it under SUNY.
CUNY campuses serve New York City and are a different system. Baruch, Hunter, and the CUNY community colleges are on the CUNY page. Geography inside New York is not enough to make a campus SUNY.
A system with several kinds of campus
University centers, comprehensive colleges, technology colleges, and community colleges share this list. Predominant degree will show that mix. Do not read the first alphabetical row as a typical SUNY campus. There is not one typical campus.
Buffalo is the practical overlap with the flagship page. Stony Brook and Albany are SUNY and are not the flagship row. The flagship page's one-per-state rule is why. This page's system rule is why they stay here.
Why the count may surprise you
People who picture four research universities will find a much longer list. The longer list is the system. Community colleges are SUNY campuses in the Scorecard even when the title on the sign does not say so.
Fashion Institute of Technology is included because it is a SUNY campus in the file, not because of the word fashion. Empire State University is included as the distance campus. Both are easy to overlook in a mental list of upstate colleges.
Where the schools are
Every school on this list is in New York. A campus in another state stays off, even when the system or the brand reaches further.
Who runs them
Every school with a reported control is public. Control is the Scorecard field. It is not a judgment about quality.
Predominant degree is the credential the campus awards most often. On this list it is an associate degree at 33 schools, a bachelor's degree at 25 schools, and a graduate degree at 1 school. A campus can still award other credentials.
How large they are
The largest undergraduate enrollments on this list are University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, with 20,112 undergraduates, Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, with 18,101 undergraduates, Binghamton University in Vestal, New York, with 14,655 undergraduates, Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York, with 14,218 undergraduates, and University at Albany in Albany, New York, with 12,564 undergraduates. Enrollment is the undergraduate figure. It is not a ranking, and it leaves out graduate students.
1 school does not report an undergraduate enrollment. That campus stays off the size order. A blank is not zero.
Admission
26 of 59 schools report an admission rate. The median of those rates is 74%. Schools with no reported rate stay out of the median. A missing rate is not an open door, and it is not a closed one.
The lowest reported admission rates on this list are Binghamton University in Vestal, New York, at 39%, Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, at 49%, and State University of New York at Cortland in Cortland, New York, at 60%. A lower rate is harder entry. It is not a score for the school.
The highest reported admission rates on this list are SUNY College of Technology at Canton in Canton, New York, at 92%, SUNY Morrisville in Morrisville, New York, at 92%, and SUNY College of Technology at Delhi in Delhi, New York, at 89%.
What they charge
Among 56 public colleges that report an in-state sticker price, the median is $7,013. 3 other public colleges on the list do not report one.
Sticker price is not net price. Grants, waivers, and a service commitment can move the bill by a wide margin. Open a school for the net-price figures.
Earnings and graduation
Among 58 schools that report earnings, the median of those school-level medians is $47,341. The clock starts at entry, not at graduation. The highest reported medians on this list are SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York, at $109,601, SUNY Maritime College in Throggs Neck, New York, at $95,951, and Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, at $92,257.
Among 56 schools that report a graduation rate, the median rate is 38%. A blank rate is left out. It is not treated as zero.
Athletics in this file
4 report NCAA Division I athletics, 1 plays FBS football, and 2 play FCS football. A blank athletics field means this file has no division for that campus. It does not prove the campus has no team.
Also on other lists
Some of these schools also meet the rule for another list on this site. The overlap is a second flag or a second classification. It is not a second ranking.
4 are also on R1 research universities. 9 are also on Hispanic-serving institutions.
How these figures work
Admission rate, enrollment, sticker price, earnings, and graduation rate all come from the College Scorecard. Earnings are the median 10 years after a student entered the school. Tuition for a public college is the in-state sticker price. Tuition for a private college is the published sticker price. None of these is net price after aid.
A blank field stays blank. This page does not turn a blank admission rate into an open door, a blank fee into a free application, or a blank earnings figure into zero. The table above is membership under the rule in this guide. Sort order is not a quality ranking.