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Earn your degree at SUNY and be immersed in the World’s 11th largest economy. Enhance your world view and study with more than 16,000 international students, across the SUNY system, who represent 160 nations. Experience beautiful mountains, world-class beaches, quaint rural villages, and America’s most vibrant and well-known cities while being exposed to culture, cuisine, finance, and fashion. Explore SUNY’s 64 unique campuses - from urban to rural, small to large, Buffalo to Long Island - including University Centers and Doctoral Degree Institutions, University Colleges, Technology Colleges, and Community Colleges.

Find a fit by matching your interests to SUNY campuses – by major, sports or location preferences – and learn which of SUNY’s thousands of degree and certificate programs are options for you. Study with world-renowned professors, researchers, Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and Emmy, Tony and Grammy award recipients invested in helping students succeed.

See for yourself what others say about SUNY! Check out SUNY’s reviews in U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, Intel, and Fiske Guide to Colleges and discover why SUNY campuses are regularly recognized for outstanding academic programs, quality of education, and affordability. SUNY students receive a high quality education at an affordable price due to funding and resources, other than student tuition, received from the State of New York.

A SUNY education offers many choices for international students, and your first step to enrolling at a SUNY college or university is to become familiar with American education terms. An understanding of the American education system, as well as knowledge of its organization, will enable you to make an informed decision about which SUNY college or university to attend. Please note that the terms college and university are often used interchangeably in U.S. higher education. Generally, the term university is used to describe institutions offering four-year bachelors degrees and graduate programs, while the term college refers to an institution of higher education offering two-year associates degrees (such as community colleges) or four-year degrees. Although colleges may have graduate programs, their primary focus is on undergraduate education. The term college may also be used to describe an academic unit within a university (such as College of Engineering at a SUNY university).

It is never too early to begin planning your academic life! Most students apply to undergraduate programs during the fall and winter of their final year of high school, while most graduate students apply to graduate programs January through March. Many SUNY campuses have rolling admissions throughout the year and communicate admission decisions when a student’s application file is completed and reviewed. Other campuses, however, communicate admission decisions in mid-March, regardless of when the application was submitted. Remember to allow for sufficient time to take required standardized exams, as some prospective students take these exams more than once to order to improve their scores. Use this Web site to learn about undergraduate and graduate academic programs, SUNY campuses, cost of attendance, activities and events, applying online, application status and to request information Please consult with the following SUNY resources for guidance along the way.

The SUNY Recruitment Response Center in Albany, New York, is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Monday through Friday and skilled telecounselors handle hundreds of calls daily. Our telecounselors are resources for questions related to completing and submitting an application for admission, exploring programs of study, and obtaining information about individual campuses. They also respond to e-mail and instant message inquiries.

SUNY campus Admission Offices provide direct contact with counselors who can answer questions about academic programs, admissions criteria, and student life. You may encounter campus admissions staff throughout the year, as they attend select college fairs and visit high schools. SUNY campus Web sites also provide valuable information.

The SUNY Center for Student Recruitment (CSR), located in New York City, provides information about all SUNY campuses to New York City area students, their families, as well as high school and agency counselors. Knowledgeable and experienced counselors visit area high schools, agencies, and community colleges and answer questions about programs of study and applying for admission and financial assistance. Throughout the year, the CSR hosts a variety of workshops and campus visit programs. The SUNY Information Center, also located in Manhattan, is a wonderful resource for students visiting NYC who would like information about SUNY or the opportunity to ask questions.