Stony Brook University Overview

Stony Brook University is a public institution situated in Stony Brook, New York. Stony Brook is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Stony Brook University Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at SUNY Stony Brook is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at SUNY Stony Brook.
• In 2017-2018, 63% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from SUNY Stony Brook with a bachelor's degree make about $57,600 a year. That's 41% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Stony Brook University Rankings

Our rankings are based on an outcomes-based approach rather than subjective ones used by other media outlets. As such, we utilize data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard, among other sources. Visit our rankings and methodology section to learn more.

SUNY Stony Brook has been awarded the following overall awards by our latest rankings.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#39	Most Popular Online Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#44	Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#60	Most Popular Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#82	Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#95	Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at SUNY Stony Brook.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#1	Best Cognitive Science Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#7	Best Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#10	Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#12	Best Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#17	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#18	Best Education Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#32	Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#58	Best Allied Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards SUNY Stony Brook has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#2	Best Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	College Factual
#4	Best Colleges for Allied Health Professions	College Factual
#8	Best Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics	College Factual
#15	Best Colleges for Nursing	College Factual
#15	Best Colleges for Computer Information Systems	College Factual
#54	Best Colleges for Psychology	College Factual

Where Is Stony Brook University?

Contact details for SUNY Stony Brook are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	310 Administration Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone:	631-632-6000
Website:	https://www.stonybrook.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/stonybrooku
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/stonybrooku

How Do I Get Into SUNY Stony Brook?

You can apply to SUNY Stony Brook online at: https://www.stonybrook.edu/undergraduate-admissions/apply/freshman/application-procedures/

Admission Requirements for SUNY Stony Brook

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into SUNY Stony Brook?

You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to SUNY Stony Brook. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 42%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 48% of accepted students are men and 52% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 42%, and the acceptance rate for women is 43%.

Average Test Scores

About 77% of students accepted to SUNY Stony Brook submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 590 and 680. Math scores were between 620 and 730.

SUNY Stony Brook received ACT scores from 38% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 24 and 32. Math scores were between 26 and 32. Composite scores were between 26 and 31.

Can I Afford Stony Brook University?

The overall average net price of SUNY Stony Brook is $34,560. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At SUNY Stony Brook, approximately 42% of students took out student loans averaging $6,384 a year. That adds up to $25,536 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at SUNY Stony Brook is 2.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Stony Brook University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 17,909 undergraduate students at SUNY Stony Brook, with 16,697 being full-time and 1,212 being part-time.

There are also 8,905 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 16,697 full-time undergraduates at SUNY Stony Brook, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Stony Brook University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	4,658
Black or African American	1,131
Hispanic or Latino	2,029
White	4,869
International Students	2,499
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,511

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Stony Brook University. At this time, 30 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 114 countries are represented at SUNY Stony Brook. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Stony Brook University

There are 1 bachelor’s degree and 13 master’s degree programs available online at SUNY Stony Brook. In 2017-2018, 4,466 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at SUNY Stony Brook has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 12th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2017-2018.

Online Growth Rankings of SUNY Stony Brook

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Stony Brook University was -6.0%. This is the #2,507 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at SUNY Stony Brook regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of SUNY Stony Brook majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Allied Health Professions	9%
Business, Management & Marketing	7%
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	22%
Electrical Engineering	33%
Engineering	25%
Health & Medical Administrative Services	28%
Health Professions	1%
Human Resource Management	23%
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	9%
Liberal Arts General Studies	9%
Nursing	8%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at SUNY Stony Brook ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at SUNY Stony Brook.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	#28
Electrical Engineering	#50
Allied Health Professions	#111
Engineering	#131
Human Resource Management	#173
Teacher Education Subject Specific	#224
Educational Administration	#276
Health & Medical Administrative Services	#402

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Stony Brook University Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Nursing	224	23	337	12	596
Computer Information Systems	272	0	299	19	590
Applied Mathematics	385	0	115	28	528
Business Administration & Management	457	0	62	0	519
General Psychology	444	0	42	0	486
General Biology	423	6	56	0	485
Health Sciences & Services	406	0	0	0	406
Social Work	58	0	285	3	346
Economics	292	0	9	7	308
Educational Administration	0	172	79	0	251
Mechanical Engineering	131	0	97	13	241
Electrical Engineering	66	11	66	11	154
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	0	0	60	86	146
Political Science & Government	125	0	12	7	144
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	110	0	11	17	138
Sociology	125	0	6	6	137
Medicine	0	0	0	130	130
Human Resource Management	0	0	123	0	123
Biomedical Engineering	80	0	26	10	116
General English Literature	98	0	11	7	116
Human Computer Interaction	116	0	0	0	116
Computer Engineering	54	3	56	2	115
Chemistry	63	0	18	33	114
Physics	58	0	25	23	106
Allied Health Professions	39	0	64	0	103
Mathematics	83	0	6	9	98
Music	17	0	17	54	88
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	82	0	0	0	82
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	2	76	0	78
History	68	0	5	4	77
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	56	0	9	8	73
Information Science	70	0	0	0	70
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	60	0	0	8	68
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	3	54	8	65
Fine & Studio Arts	45	0	13	4	62
Health & Medical Administrative Services	0	18	43	0	61
Other Engineering	0	0	52	4	56
Civil Engineering	50	0	2	0	52
Finance & Financial Management	0	5	46	0	51
Journalism	44	0	2	0	46
Chemical Engineering	37	0	8	0	45
Dentistry	0	0	0	45	45
Materials Engineering	0	0	21	21	42
Accounting	0	0	39	0	39
Anthropology	32	0	5	1	38
Romance Languages	30	0	6	1	37
Public Health	0	2	35	0	37
Philosophy	23	1	6	3	33
Marketing	0	0	32	0	32
Other Business, Management & Marketing	0	0	31	0	31
Public Policy	0	0	31	0	31
General Engineering	30	0	0	0	30
Ethnic Studies	14	9	7	0	30
Medical Illustration & Informatics	0	1	27	1	29
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	28	0	0	0	28
Geological & Earth Sciences	10	6	6	6	28
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	0	4	23	0	27
Natural Resources Conservation	25	0	0	0	25
Teaching English or French	0	0	24	0	24
Writing Studies	0	0	23	0	23
Marine Science	0	0	13	10	23
Pharmacology & Toxicology	14	0	0	8	22
Drama & Theater Arts	20	0	1	0	21
Environmental Design	19	0	0	0	19
Area Studies	18	0	0	0	18
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)	0	0	12	0	12
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology	11	0	0	0	11
Sustainability Science	10	0	0	0	10
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	0	0	0	9	9
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences	0	8	0	1	9
Natural Resource Management	0	0	9	0	9
Cognitive Science	0	3	0	5	8
Astronomy & Astrophysics	7	0	0	0	7
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	0	0	7	0	7
Biological & Physical Science	6	0	0	0	6
Other Physical Science	6	0	0	0	6
Child Development & Psychology	0	0	0	6	6
Other Psychology	0	6	0	0	6
English Literature (Other)	0	5	0	0	5
Genetics	0	0	0	3	3
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	0	0	0	3	3
Literature	0	3	0	0	3
Germanic Languages	3	0	0	0	3
Computational Science	0	3	0	0	3
Public Relations & Advertising	0	2	0	0	2
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	0	0	2	2
Other Computer & Information Sciences	0	1	0	0	1
Operations Research	0	1	0	0	1
Religious Studies	1	0	0	0	1
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	0	0	0	0	0
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	0	0	0	0	0
Multilingual Education	0	0	0	0	0
Medical Science	0	0	0	0	0
International Studies	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	4,945	298	2,550	638	8,431

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Danski14 under License

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