Binghamton at a Glance

People around the world are learning what New Yorkers have known for decades: Binghamton University is one America’s premier public universities. We attract outstanding students and award-winning faculty who are partners in active discovery — we don’t collect knowledge, we create it.

Learn more about what makes the Binghamton University experience so exceptional.

Rigorous Academics

• The Fiske Guide to Colleges (2010) again calls Binghamton the “premier public university in the northeast” and ranks it a "best buy".
• The University consists of six schools: Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Community and Public Affairs, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Education, the School of Management and the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science.
• Binghamton’s School of Management is rated 18th best public business school in the nation by BusinessWeek, which also gave the schol an A+ for job placement and an A for teaching quality.
• Our faculty includes a Pulitzer Prize winner, a National Book Award winner and numerous Fulbright, Ford and Guggenheim scholars.
• Two teams of Watson School computer science students took first-place honors in the National Federal Aviation Administration Design Competition for Universities -- one for its plan that uses geothermal heat to remove snow and ice from runways and the other for offering ways to recycle de-icing fluids.

Gorgeous Campus and Community

• The campus is spread across 887 acres on a wooded hillside above the Susquehanna River in the Binghamton suburb of Vestal.
• The University received top recognition in The Princeton Review's second annual "green rating" of colleges -- one of only 15 colleges honored.
• The on-campus Nature Preserve boasts 190 acres of protected forest and wetlands with hiking/biking/running trails and a six-acre pond.
• Downtown Binghamton offers a world-class opera company, a symphony orchestra, movie theaters, clubs, incredible restaurants, bars and professional hockey and baseball teams.

Innovative Live/Learn Facilities

• Modeled after Oxford University, our students live in six modern residential communities, each with its own distinct personality and neighborhood feel.
• The sprawling, four-building science complex -- soon to be five as construction progresses on a new science building -- features a multi-climate greenhouse—one of the largest teaching and research facilities of its kind—divided into tropical, temperate, alpine and desert zones.
• The Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC) is home to the Bioengineering Building, which features state-of-the-art, modular laboratories and clinical research space and a start-up suite for new companies. A second building for the complex is currently under construction.
• The spacious Anderson Center for the Performing Arts showcases a “transforming,” 1,200-seat theater with a retractable rear wall for lawn seating and is celebrating it's 25th anniversary season.
• The University Art Museum’s permanent collection includes over 3,000 modern and ancient pieces, including a nationally recognized Asian Art Gallery.
• Progressive Architecture featured our two stunning academic buildings, home to the schools of Management, Nursing and Education, and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

Active, Athletic Community

• The Binghamton Bearcats field 21 NCAA Division I varsity teams.
• Students choose from dozens of competitive and just-for-fun club and intramural sports teams, from soccer to coed dodgeball.
• FitSpace is our state-of-the-art fitness center with in-house personal trainers and 45 group classes each week.
• Our awesome Outdoor Pursuits program organizes day and weekend kayaking, climbing, hiking and camping trips to the region’s many state parks.

Successful Graduates

• Our four-year graduation rate is among the highest in the nation among our peer public research universities.
• 25% of undergrads go on to receive a graduate degree from Binghamton.
• Binghamton has more than 30 doctoral programs in arts and sciences and its professional schools, and awards more than 100 doctorates every year.
• 86% of Binghamton grads who apply to law school are accepted, compared with 76% nationally.
• Our grads get into medical school at rates that are 13% above the national average.
• There are nearly 95,000 Binghamton alumni spread across all 50 states and around the world.