<p>binghamton
geneseo
new paltz</p>
<p>Is life really that different between south and north campus at UB?</p>
<p>yes- but their is a shuttle between the two</p>
<p>1.Stony Brook
2 Binghamton
3.Albany</p>
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<li>Geneseo</li>
<li>Binghamton</li>
<li>Purchase (if you’re doing music/arts or whatever)</li>
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<p>I know people say “Ivy” when they mean to say “elite” and all of the Ivy schools are quite good, but does Cornell Agriculture really carry any prestige?</p>
<p>1 Albany
2 SBU
3 Binghamton</p>
<p>Albany:
- Access to the capitol (legislative internships)
- #1 World Ranked Nano College
- Top 10 programs in Criminal Justice to library science
- Brand new $70M business school building coming online
- Most D1 NCAA appearances in SUNY
- Tradition (New York’s first state college to offer a bachelors degree)</p>
<p>@Gnomstar - Part of Cornell is a SUNY. Cornell was founded with money from the NYS Land Grant to create a school. Ezra Cornell put his money in to Cornell to help make it larger, making it also a private institution. So as it stands, there are 5 individual colleges within Cornell University which are considered “state schools” and do cost the amount of a regular SUNY admission. SUNY schools, as an over arching statement, do not have state selected gen. ed. requirements. Many of the liberal arts schools do have gen. ed. requirements, as would be standard, but there is not a state selected gen. ed. program throughout all of the schools.</p>
<p>UAlbany is on fire. The investment is measured in the billions, not millions.</p>
<p>[bizjournals</a> mobile: Albany: Albany NanoTech hub for $4.8B semiconductor work](<a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/mobile/albany/morning_call/2011/09/albany-nanotech-hub-for-48b.html]bizjournals”>http://www.bizjournals.com/mobile/albany/morning_call/2011/09/albany-nanotech-hub-for-48b.html)</p>
<p>From what I’ve generally experienced in high school, it goes:
- Binghamton
1a. Geneseo - Stony Brook
- Buffalo</p>
<p>Albany’s problems are that it’s a pretty ugly campus/city, only strong in very specialized fields, and not terribly selective.</p>
<p>“Gnomstar - Part of Cornell is a SUNY. Cornell was founded with money from the NYS Land Grant to create a school. Ezra Cornell put his money in to Cornell to help make it larger, making it also a private institution. So as it stands, there are 5 individual colleges within Cornell University which are considered “state schools” and do cost the amount of a regular SUNY admission. SUNY schools, as an over arching statement, do not have state selected gen. ed. requirements. Many of the liberal arts schools do have gen. ed. requirements, as would be standard, but there is not a state selected gen. ed. program throughout all of the schools”</p>
<p>…this is utterly false. The 4 "contract colleges ARE NOT SUNY’s. Their diploma’s are granted by Cornell, not the SUNY system. In addition their tuition cost IS NOT the “regular cost” of a SUNY. Tuition for the contract colleges this year is approx. $25,000</p>
<p>I am a native New Yorker. It is a shame, with all the top students in New York, that the legislature never had the courage to pick one SUNY, and make that university the state’s flagship university. A New York version of Berkeley. </p>
<p>Instead, it has a bunch of middle range universities, without national prominence.</p>
<p>^ with the recent legislation, at least the the four centers will grow. Buffalo is doing very well with its medical and health sciences focus, 40M single individual donation for med eduction, downtown medical campus etc; Albany the nanotechnology hub with world’s largest semiconductor companies joining forces with NY State, the Albany nanotech school should do very well over the next few years to a decade. I am not sure what Stonybrook’s strength will be as far as graduate and professional schools. Binghamton was always UG focus. Although the UG side is not a good, the graduate and professional education are on the rise. Albany will thrive on the nanotech industry, and Buffalo will grow very rapidly on the medical side. However, NY will never have a system like CA. No other state was able to copy CA’s success in public universities. SUNY has 64 campuses in all, its spread too thin. But at least the University centers will do well.</p>
<p>csdad, true. Cornell’s contract colleges have nothing to do with SUNY. But I thought the tuition is approximately the same as SUNY. Three years ago, the cost of attendance was about $18,000 for SUNY (Geneseo) for my son, his total COA at cornell CAS (not contract school) was about 24,000. For middle class families, the COA to SUNY and private colleges (with good need base financial aid) are not that different. U of R will be somewhat higher than Cornell CAS because their aid is not as good as Cornell.</p>
<p>Could the “best” SUNY depend on the student’s major? For example, Stony Brook seems to have a reputation in math, physics, and CS more so than most other subjects.</p>
<p>Toughyear,</p>
<p>…tuition alone at Cornell’s contract colleges is appox. $25,000, endowed colleges is $41,000. Bringing total COA to around $37,000 & $53,000 (with no FA). SUNY Geneseo is still around $18,000 total COA. Our income is in the $150,000 to $175,000 range & we got zero FA at contract college. We would have gotten FA to make total COA around $40,000 at an endowed college. We thought that $37,000 for an Ivy league education was not unrerasonable.</p>
<p>csdad,</p>
<p>Yes, I agree. I would send to Cornell too for maybe 2x the cost. Especially if you have a younger one lined up in 2 years or so. Then for 2 years when the two siblings overlap in college years, you will have about the same total cost (37k or 40k), and for this same overlapping period, if you send both to SUNY, you shall pay 2x18k=36k for the two. If this is the scenario, you can even tell the older one, if need be, s/he can take five or six years to graduate and the overall cost won’t change for you. Anyway, that’s what I told my older one and he was already planning for it! So, I told him again, that is your last resort, and you still wanna graduate in 4 yrs and proceed to your professional school timely. Sometimes words get unintended consequences :)</p>
<p>1) Geneseo
2) Binghamton
3) Stony Brook
4) Buffalo</p>