SUNY (Bing or Stonybrook)

[Anonymous]

The SUNYs are undoubtedly one of the greatest values in college education today. Why does national vs regional reputation matter? What you need to worry about are placement rates and grad school admissions. After the first job, your student will be judged on skill, not undergrad.

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Anonymous wrote:I am born and raised and live in NY and I think Binghamton is a fabulous school where "smart kids go."

Better or worse than UMD? That's impossible to really say.

Does UMD have better name recognition nationally? 110%

One of the former co-hosts on the podcast YCBK had never heard of Binghamton. (The main host brought up an impressive statistic about the # of CEOs who graduate from there, or something like that.)

There's definitely a difference between a lay person who couldn't care less about "good colleges" and a person who is more in the know/educated. If the former is from say, Arizona, yeah, maybe they don't really know anything other than, University of Maryland is the university in Maryland. The latter should know that UMD has a stellar reputation in many ways and a lot to offer.

Binghamton is certainly more obscure nationally.

It's OK, a lot of people don't know there's anything impressive or have even heard about Harvey Mudd or Carnegie Mellon, either.

exactly, and those schools are not regional and are highly regarded for STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you that are saying the SB is ranked higher than Bing- this is a recent change to the metrics. No one in NY considers Stony Brook to be a better school. If anything the battle is between Binghamton and Geneseo (which isn't even a University).

Geneseo offers something different, though -- a smaller, prettier, almost-like-a-private feeling. That's why it's one of the more highly desired SUNYs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SUNYs are undoubtedly one of the greatest values in college education today. Why does national vs regional reputation matter? What you need to worry about are placement rates and grad school admissions. After the first job, your student will be judged on skill, not undergrad.

+1. Definitely. Tuition, room and board is under 28,000 annually. I know many happy students at Stony Brook, Buffalo, Binghamton and the other SUNYS. Getting internships and job offers. Strong schools . After the first job, like PP mentioned it is not a dealbreaker if not nationally known.

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Anonymous wrote:They are great schools to add to the mix when you are constructing a truly balanced list.

I agree. We are very seriously considering SUNY Purchase College as an OOS option for our artsy liberal arts student. SUNY schools have a lot to offer and are a great deal financially.

If interested in Purchase, maybe check out Geneseo as well!

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Anonymous wrote:it was 9 spots further down the rankings a year ago. in fact, for the last several years the ranking was firmly in low 50:

58 61 60 61 53 54 58 59 58

So it's been a solid top 60 for last decade.

UMD is growing in reputation, which is a good thing, but .. you can put me down as a person who considers its reputation much stronger regionally than nationally. That's the definition of a regional school. I also agree that it's not unknown - people probably assume MD has a big state university.

I think UMD and SUNY Bing are pretty comparable. it's possible you dont' realize how strong the Bing rep is in NYC, which would be totally understandable.

well, I never heard of UGA (ranked lower), but apparently you or a PP thinks UGA is a national school but not UMD.

My view is narrow because I'm originally from CA. Your view is also narrow (and old) because you are from NY.

I'm from Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are great schools to add to the mix when you are constructing a truly balanced list.

I agree. We are very seriously considering SUNY Purchase College as an OOS option for our artsy liberal arts student. SUNY schools have a lot to offer and are a great deal financially.

If interested in Purchase, maybe check out Geneseo as well!

They're not really interchangeable. Purchase is great for arts. So many famous alumni. Stony Brook is science. Bing is most selective. ESF for environmental. Geneseo and Buffalo also great, but different vibe. It's a unique construct for a system

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it was 9 spots further down the rankings a year ago. in fact, for the last several years the ranking was firmly in low 50:

58 61 60 61 53 54 58 59 58

So it's been a solid top 60 for last decade.

UMD is growing in reputation, which is a good thing, but .. you can put me down as a person who considers its reputation much stronger regionally than nationally. That's the definition of a regional school. I also agree that it's not unknown - people probably assume MD has a big state university.

I think UMD and SUNY Bing are pretty comparable. it's possible you dont' realize how strong the Bing rep is in NYC, which would be totally understandable.

well, I never heard of UGA (ranked lower), but apparently you or a PP thinks UGA is a national school but not UMD.

My view is narrow because I'm originally from CA. Your view is also narrow (and old) because you are from NY.

I'm from Chicago.

even more of a narrow view, then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are great schools to add to the mix when you are constructing a truly balanced list.

I agree. We are very seriously considering SUNY Purchase College as an OOS option for our artsy liberal arts student. SUNY schools have a lot to offer and are a great deal financially.

If interested in Purchase, maybe check out Geneseo as well!

They're not really interchangeable. Purchase is great for arts. So many famous alumni. Stony Brook is science. Bing is most selective. ESF for environmental. Geneseo and Buffalo also great, but different vibe. It's a unique construct for a system

+1. That's the biggest difference between the SUNY system and most other state university systems. They don't have a "flagship" but lots of smaller, focused schools.
I grew up in NY, had lots of friends go to Binghamton, and my brother attended Geneseo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stony Brook is tops for science in the SUNY system. Lots of doctors and research PhDs come out of Stony Brook.

Yes, totally agree with this.

[Anonymous]

SUNY Binghamton has to be one of the 10 ugliest college campuses in the nation. It's like every bad architectural idea from the 1970s touched ground and made a home there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are great schools to add to the mix when you are constructing a truly balanced list.

I agree. We are very seriously considering SUNY Purchase College as an OOS option for our artsy liberal arts student. SUNY schools have a lot to offer and are a great deal financially.

If interested in Purchase, maybe check out Geneseo as well!

New Palz would be a more apt comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are great schools to add to the mix when you are constructing a truly balanced list.

I agree. We are very seriously considering SUNY Purchase College as an OOS option for our artsy liberal arts student. SUNY schools have a lot to offer and are a great deal financially.

If interested in Purchase, maybe check out Geneseo as well!

They're not really interchangeable. Purchase is great for arts. So many famous alumni. Stony Brook is science. Bing is most selective. ESF for environmental. Geneseo and Buffalo also great, but different vibe. It's a unique construct for a system

+1. That's the biggest difference between the SUNY system and most other state university systems. They don't have a "flagship" but lots of smaller, focused schools.
I grew up in NY, had lots of friends go to Binghamton, and my brother attended Geneseo.

That's true, they actually have two: Buffalo and Stony Brook. Not that it's that important.

https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/a-joint-statement-from-the-university-at-buffalo-and-stony-brook-university-on-being-designated-as-new-york-states-flagship-public-universities/

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you that are saying the SB is ranked higher than Bing- this is a recent change to the metrics. No one in NY considers Stony Brook to be a better school. If anything the battle is between Binghamton and Geneseo (which isn't even a University).

This is categorically false.

-NY native.

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Anonymous wrote:They are great schools to add to the mix when you are constructing a truly balanced list.

I agree. We are very seriously considering SUNY Purchase College as an OOS option for our artsy liberal arts student. SUNY schools have a lot to offer and are a great deal financially.

If interested in Purchase, maybe check out Geneseo as well!

They're not really interchangeable. Purchase is great for arts. So many famous alumni. Stony Brook is science. Bing is most selective. ESF for environmental. Geneseo and Buffalo also great, but different vibe. It's a unique construct for a system

+1. That's the biggest difference between the SUNY system and most other state university systems. They don't have a "flagship" but lots of smaller, focused schools.
I grew up in NY, had lots of friends go to Binghamton, and my brother attended Geneseo.

This is kind of weird, though ... they sort of retrofitted the idea of a "flagship," as opposed to PA, NJ, VA, MD, etc., which have true flagships.

That's true, they actually have two: Buffalo and Stony Brook. Not that it's that important.

https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/a-joint-statement-from-the-university-at-buffalo-and-stony-brook-university-on-being-designated-as-new-york-states-flagship-public-universities/