<p>SUNY Binghamton dropped in the updated list of U.S national college rankings from 89 to 97. I was heavily considering going to binghamton but i don't know if it is a good option becuase it may look less favorable to graduate schools. Bing also dropped to public college ranking to 44. Binghamton is closely ranked with University at buffalo and i think it is no longer the "premier" college university. I am so confused should i still consider Binghamton?</p>
<p>I have no affiliation with Binghamton but if you honestly believe that grad schools will judge you because some arbitrary, for profit rankings racket changed its methodology, well, I’ll just say you’re wrong.</p>
<p>The fact that SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry was ranked 87 among national universities, 10 slots higher than Binghamton among national universities, should give you an idea of the value of these rankings. Not that there’s anything wrong with SUNY Environmental for what it is, but it should not even be in the same category as Binghamton.</p>
<p>Yeah i totally agree that how is SUNY college of Environment science ranked higher… i mean the U.S national rankings are dicussed on major news websites like newsday and many colleges often use their ranking as an advertisement to attract more peopl. I think Binghamton is a good school but how the rankings are going down will definetly hurt the college and its prestige. Binghamton was known as the “best Suny” but now it is clearly not and if the ranks drop a couple more slots next year it wont be in top 100.</p>
<p>Truthfully, I think Binghamton has been overrated for a long time. Although it was previously known as the best SUNY, it doesn’t really deserve this title anymore. If you compare individual subject areas, Binghamton doesn’t really have many great programs compared to other schools. The research and publications coming out of Binghamton isn’t too great either. I can’t really think of a statistic that would show that Binghamton deserves a higher rating. Stony Brook really deserves its higher ranking spot.</p>
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<p>Four year graduation rate. Six year graduation rate. SAT Scores. High school counselor score. Yield.</p>
<p>And if Buffalo is closely ranked to binghamton, then stony brook is closely ranked to binghamton.</p>
<p>Here are the rankings as follows</p>
<p>Stony Brook: from #91 to #82
Binghamton: from #89 to #97
University at Buffalo: from #106 to #109
UAlbany: #128 to #128 (stayed the same)</p>
<p>Stony Brook was always the jewel of the system, and the new ranking affirm what I was saying and clarifying all along. Bing being a Liberal Arts college, and Liberal Arts being on a decline, is why Bing suffered. Stony Brook is a Science and Engineering school, hence Stony Brook being the #1 school in the SUNY system, and now at its all time highest ranking. Each year SBU is on the rise, whereas Bing is on the downfall. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bing is in the 100’s next year, whereas SBU is in the upper 70’s.</p>
<p>Oh look, here’s the Stony Brook ■■■■■. So what do you think about SUNY Environmental? Just one spot below Stony Brook?</p>
<p>So, in your opinion QCstudent, Stony Brook was the better school because its higher ranked? Therefore, all the years that Binghamton was higher, it was the better school? </p>
<p>They changed the formula to more heavily weigh academic ranking, and obviously larger schools will tend to have higher academic ranking because they have a higher chance to be connected to the scorer.</p>
<p>I got in to the CS honors program at Stony Brook five years ago, with a chance at paying exactly zero in tuition. I decided not to go because quality of life was more important to me.</p>
<p>My opinion is not that, my opinion is that Stony Brook is finally being recognized for being a Science/Engineering powerhouse of the SUNY system.</p>
<p>For example, while it is your free-will(presumably), that led you to choose Binghamton, anybody who knows a thing or two about Bing and Stony, in your discipline Computer Science, can tell you that Stony has a much, much, more:</p>
<p>A)Challenging
B)Stronger
C)Prestigious(i.e better campus recruitment, etc)
D)Research-oriented
E)Competitive
F)More faculty members(I believe 4x your size), which implies more opportunities and better courses</p>
<p>Computer Science program. </p>
<p>I hope you are not trying to compare your department vs ours now are you? I mean, ultimately it is the student who determines the outcome of his success, but the department too plays a major role, and Stony Brook CS is a first-tier program that has a ton more going on than what you have at Bing. Don’t make that judgement.</p>
<p>Binghamton is a great, great school. On the contrary I’ve never badmouthed it, all I am saying is Bing is a more Liberal arts school, that is on a decline unfortunately(since L.A in general is suffering); whereas Stony Brook(A science and Engineering school, home to Nobel Prize winners, research of the MRI, a Computer Science program that is the size of your Entire school of Engineering). </p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>[Computer</a> Science Department](<a href=“http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu%5DComputer”>http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu)</p>
<p>A) Where’s your evidence?
B) Where’s your evidence?
C) Where’s your evidence?
D) Why should an undergrad care?
E) Where’s your evidence?
F) Doesn’t mean anything. Arizona State is bigger then Stony Brook, with more CS majors and professors. Therefore, by your logic, it’s better!</p>
<p>You’re trolling the Bing board because you need to justify your decision to go to Depressing U. You just make things up and wax non sequirtors to confuse people into making the same choice you did.</p>
<p>I don’t feel the need to post on Stony Brook’s board about how depressing their school really is, because it doesn’t matter to me.</p>
<p>The 4 year completion rates are another factor that had it’s methodology weight increased which negatively impacted all of the non-Long Island SUNY’s.</p>
<p>Stony Brook University is a commuter school so they are FAR more likely to live at home and go to school. This means that cost is MUCH less of a barrier to them and cost is one of the MAIN reasons why students drop out.</p>
<p>ALL the SUNY’s Room&Board prices are ~$13,000 which is almost double more than their tuition; so obviously commuter students have a MAJOR advantage over dorming students. Most students in Bing, Buff and the other non-LI SUNY’s are NOT commuters and actually have the barrier of paying all these massive additional costs which affects it’s 4-year graduation rate.</p>
<p>Actually, Bing’s 6 year graduation rate is 9 points higher, according to USNews.</p>
<p>[Stony</a> Brook University–SUNY | Rankings | Best College | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/stony-brook-university-suny-2838/rankings]Stony”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/stony-brook-university-suny-2838/rankings)</p>
<p>[Binghamton</a> University–SUNY | Rankings | Best College | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/binghamton-university-suny-2836/rankings?int=c6b9e3]Binghamton”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/binghamton-university-suny-2836/rankings?int=c6b9e3)</p>
<p>Hey, QC</p>
<p>Looks like the world caught on to your act.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, my son continues to excel in the sciences at Binghamton and everything else for that matter. He had a great internship this past summer doing cancer research and he is virtually guaranteed a paid internship this coming summer as a result. Next semester, he will be doing science research at Binghamton in another lab. </p>
<p>Of course, he had to work to discover these opportunities but life and college is what you make of it.</p>
<p>For those who actually do want a Liberal Arts degree, sounds like a great place to be !
Not everyone wants to study engineering, and if they do, and LA at SB is nothing to
brag about.</p>
<p>What was the reason for the drop? I think Binghamon is a great school, for a great price. I think that SUNY Buffalo is terribly underrated for what it can offer students. Don’t know personally much about Stonybrook and other SUNYs, so can’t say, but what I’ve personally checked out, these schools are fantastic deals. The issue is outside recognition and ratings. The departments themselves have excellent reputations among those in the know and academia. But with these schools nearly all NY in student composition, the word just has not gotten out The good part of this is that they are still very accessible to most NY students, unlike some state schools that have become so selective that getting acceptpd is truly difficult.</p>
<p>The R&B is incredible. Over $1,000 a month and with 2 in a room it is over $2,000 a month. I find it humorous that on their grad school pages they brag about the low living cost of the area as a reason to attend. The cost of living on campus is certainly not low.</p>
<p>Forbes rankings Binghamton significantly higher than Stony Brook in terms of ROI, difficulty to gain admission, and the level of students that attend the school. They are both great schools with many great opportunities, but USNWR is useless when it comes to schools that don’t rank in the top 50.</p>
<p>It really depends on the criteria they are using. If they look at grad schools and research, it is no surprise that stony brook is ranked higher. They are very well known for their sciences. Binghamton does not have that kind of research. It is harder to get into as an undergraduate and has a niche for being a school where hardworking downstates kids go if they want to save money. New York doesn’t have a huge, well regarded flagship so that also needs to be taken into account as well.</p>