“New York does not have a poor state university system - many of the state universities in NY are good to great. And private schools range all over the map - are you really trying to say that a degree from Binghamton or Stony Brook or Geneseo wouldn’t be as good as an education from Daemon College, Berkeley College (the one in NYC), Touro College, College of New Rochelle, DeVry…etc.? There are a lot of private colleges. They are all over the map.”
No, I am saying that SUNY is a poor system overall compared to good state systems. Yes, there are worse schools out there. I certainly have not said otherwise. I am amazed at how many people on this site who have never spent more than a day on the campus of an actual flagship in a good system are so quick to defend SUNY. Spend a few days at Michigan, Wisc, UVA, and the 30 or so state schools rated higher than the highest rated SUNY and then come back and tell me that SUNY is just as good. Some make many SUNYs look like extended high schools. That isn’t to say that great students don’t go to SUNYs. Some excellent students go to SUNY. I’m not talking about the quality of the students attending. i am talking about the quality of the education, availability of resources, the extent to which the resources are state-of-the-art/cutting edge or dinosaurs. Tour the engineering buildings at various universities. What do you see? Read about the history of SUNY. If you don’t know the history, you might be surprised.