State University of New York

Overview

State University of New York

State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public colleges and universities located in New York, United States. It was founded in 1948 and is recognized as the largest comprehensive university system in America. Its notable course offerings include business, engineering, and computer science.

State University of New York Key Statistics

The university system comprises 64 member institutions like academic medical centers, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, research universities, an online learning network, and colleges of technology. These include Westchester Community College, New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and North Country Community College.

It offers approximately 7,660 degree and certificate programs across its 64 campuses, around 1,500 of which are undergraduate and over 2,700 are graduate programs.

State University of New York's student population is nearly 400,000, 89% of whom are undergraduate students. It employs over 91,000 employees including about 32,500 faculty members.

The other State University of New York key statistics includes the SUNY Libraries Consortium which is composed of libraries found in all the campuses of the university system’s member-institutions across the country. It also established the SUNYConnect, a joint initiative by the Office of Library and Information Services and the libraries in all SUNY campuses to facilitate sharing of resources, subscription services, and collections.

SUNY colleges and universities also have galleries, museums, art departments, and their own press called The State University of New York Press (SUNY Press) which publishes books that are mostly scholarly works of its professors. SUNY Press also serves as the Center for Scholarly Communication and is an affiliate of the Association of University Presses.

State University of New York Research

SUNY is a research-intensive university system, which has over 7,000 projects, more than 1,760 patents, and annual R&D expenditures of $1.7 billion. It has also formed long-term partnerships with companies, research organizations, and government laboratories including IBM, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Cree, Inc.

Its top fields of research are medicine, computer science, and biology. State University of New York research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like The Lancet, Nature, and Social Science Research Network.

Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as INFOCOM: International Conference on Computer Communications, DGR: International Conference on Digital Government Research, and EMBC: International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

The most cited State University of New York research publication is Dwyer et al.'s (1987) "Developing buyer-seller relationships." This was published in the Journal of Marketing and has so far been cited 13,653 times.

The university system’s second most cited publication is Ganesan's (1994) "Determinants of long-term orientation in buyer-seller relationships," which was featured in the Journal of Marketing and has received 10,377 citations.

Moreover, the university system’s third most cited publication is Anderson et al.'s (1982) “Optimal filtering,” which was published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, with 8,844 citations.

In addition, SUNY has several research centers and institutes. These include the SUNY Center of Quantum Information Science at Long Island, CNY Biotech Accelerator at the Upstate Medical University, and the Stony Brook Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center.