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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  First, international students are excluded from both the numerator and the denominator when calculating OOS percentages at all universities. The 7% OOS figure is the one that allows for apples-to-apples comparisons with other schools' OOS figures (the SUNY schools don't get to puff their numbers, as you're trying to do, by including internationals when everyone else excludes them).

Second, your "collegefactual" cite is spouting nonsense. The CDS includes actual nonresident alien numbers, too, in section B2. At Bing, it's 575 out of 14,307, or 4%. (No rocket science required.)  [/quote]

You've got to stop assuming that the CDS is gospel.    It fundamentally doesn't matter if "international students are excluded from both the numerator and the denominator" in the CDS statistics.    If about ten percent of the student body at Binghamton is international students (and it is -- youre again misled by the fact that CDS only looks at undergraduate statistics), then by definition that's ten percent of the student body that aren't NYers.

With more than 1,800 international students from 98 different countries, Binghamton University 
https://www.binghamton.edu/admissions/apply/international/index.html
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The CDS basically IS the gospel because the numbers are provided directly by the school using the same metric.  Below is a link to a useful reference (some SUNY schools are listed with "SUNY" at the beginning, but not Binghamton or Stony Brook).

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/enrollment-by-residency
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