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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is SUNY so unappealing to out of state applicants? This seems worth a journalist’s attention. It’s really striking how unpopular they are. [/quote]

I’m in California. My theory is that there are too many SUNY schools. From here, i have a hard time distinguishing them and I feel like I’m pretty up on college degrees. They don’t differentiate the way that the UCs and CSUs do. It isn’t that they are unappealing as such. It’s that there are 64 of them. That’s a lot of schools to sort out. 
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They do differentiate.  System set up originally with specialties.  Some of that still remains.  Purchase & New Paltz artsy.  Cortlandt sporty. Buffalo, Stony Brook, Binghamton and Albany the anchor universities.  
PP who claimed mediocre?  Incorrect.  Some of our finest medical doctors obtained their undergrads at Binghamton.  At that price tag, money well saved for years of grad school[/quote]

Californian here. They don’t really differentiate in any material way. The fact that they have multiple “anchor” schools but no flagship shows that. It’s always been a bit bizarre to me that SUNY doesn’t have the equivalent of a Cal or UM.

I think the education is likely fine and I disagree with the mediocre comment, but I do think SUNY has a structural and organizational issue that weakens the perception of the entire system. [/quote]

The SUNY campuses in upstate and western NY are big employment centers for those areas. Take away those jobs and now you have a lot of unemployed people in areas of the state that have more in common with the de-industrializing Rust Belt than they do with NYC. There's also the argument to keep those universities open - even if under-enrolled - so those people in the de-industrialized areas of NY have easy access to get skills training.

When you view the 60+ campuses from that perspective, you can see why NY wants to keep them open.[/quote]

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