SUNY Polytechnic Institute Overview

SUNY Polytechnic Institute is a public institution located in Utica, New York. SUNY Poly is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is SUNY Polytechnic Institute Known For?

• Students at SUNY Poly have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 4%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at SUNY Poly is the doctor's degree.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 47% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, SUNY Poly bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $51,000 a year. That's about 25% more than their peers at other schools.
• The average SUNY Poly student graduates in 4.3 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

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

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#3	Best Value Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#22	Best Value Radio, TV & Digital Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#32	Best Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#99	Best Value Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#124	Best Value Communication & Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#128	Best Value Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#140	Best Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#167	Best Value Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#183	Best Value Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#195	Best Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

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

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#3	Best Value Colleges for Behavioral Aspects of Health	College Factual
#4	Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#4	Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#4	Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology	College Factual
#131	Best Health & Medical Administrative Services Schools	College Factual
#180	Best Nursing Schools	Nursing Degree Search

Where Is SUNY Polytechnic Institute?

Contact details for SUNY Poly are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	100 Seymour Rd, Utica, NY 13502
Phone:	315-792-7100
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/sunypolytechnic
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/sunyit

How Do I Get Into SUNY Poly?

You can apply to SUNY Poly online at: www.suny.edu/applysuny/

Admission Requirements for SUNY Poly

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into SUNY Poly?

With an acceptance rate of 73%, SUNY Poly may not be as selective as some schools, but you should not take admittance for granted. Be sure to submit the best application you can.

Approximately 69% of accepted students are men and 31% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 73%, and the acceptance rate for women is 73%.

Average Test Scores

About 91% of students accepted to SUNY Poly submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 480 and 660. Math scores were between 520 and 690.

SUNY Poly received ACT scores from 10% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 23 and 29. Math scores were between 25 and 30. Composite scores were between 20 and 29.

Can I Afford SUNY Polytechnic Institute?

The overall average net price of SUNY Poly is $24,635. 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

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At SUNY Poly, approximately 63% of students took out student loans averaging $7,001 a year. That adds up to $28,004 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at SUNY Poly is 4.3%. 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.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,239 undergraduate students at SUNY Poly, with 1,903 being full-time and 336 being part-time.

There are also 805 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,903 full-time undergraduates at SUNY Poly, 70% are male and 30% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of SUNY Polytechnic Institute students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	161
Black or African American	133
Hispanic or Latino	179
White	1,318
International Students	27
Other Races/Ethnicities	85

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. At this time, 7 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Online Learning at SUNY Polytechnic Institute

There are 2 bachelor’s degree and 7 master’s degree programs available online at SUNY Poly. In 2019-2020, 2,943 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 56th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of SUNY Poly

The following table shows how SUNY Poly is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Communication & Journalism (Other)	#1	#4
Other Business, Management & Marketing	#4	#4
Information Science	#16	#25
Accounting	#25	#61
Health & Medical Administrative Services	#25	#81
Information Technology	#28	#40
Communication & Journalism	#34	#53
Computer & Information Sciences	#55	#59

Online Affordability Rankings of SUNY Poly Rankings

The following table shows how SUNY Poly is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Other Business, Management & Marketing	#4	#7
Information Science	#19	#73
Accounting	#22	#136
Information Technology	#23	#91
Nursing	#36	#87
Health & Medical Administrative Services	#50	#143
Business Administration & Management	#61	#154

Online Growth Rankings of SUNY Poly

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at SUNY Polytechnic Institute was 56.9%. This is the #557 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at SUNY Poly regardless of major.

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

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Applied Mathematics	17%
Business Administration & Management	46%
Health & Medical Administrative Services	6%
Health Professions	2%
Information Science	23%
Mathematics & Statistics	17%

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Applied Mathematics	#7
Other Business, Management & Marketing	#19
Information Science	#21
Mathematics & Statistics	#38
Information Technology	#100
Nursing	#138
Health & Medical Administrative Services	#175
Accounting	#204
Computer & Information Sciences	#272
Health Professions	#403
Business Administration & Management	#439

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%.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Computer Information Systems	63	0	36	0	99
Nursing	41	2	49	0	92
Business Administration & Management	58	0	29	0	87
Accounting	21	0	32	0	53
Information Science	16	0	23	0	39
Other Engineering	20	0	3	7	30
Information Technology	20	0	8	0	28
Mechanical Engineering Technology	27	0	0	0	27
General Psychology	26	0	0	0	26
Electronics Engineering Technology	24	0	0	0	24
Civil Engineering	23	0	0	0	23
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	22	0	0	0	22
Mechanical Engineering	21	0	0	0	21
Public Health	20	0	0	0	20
Civil Engineering Technology	19	0	0	0	19
General Biology	18	0	0	0	18
Health & Medical Administrative Services	17	0	0	0	17
Computer Engineering Technology	15	0	0	0	15
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	14	0	0	0	14
Communication & Media Studies	11	0	0	0	11
General Engineering	4	0	4	0	8
Sociology	7	0	0	0	7
Applied Mathematics	6	0	0	0	6
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	5	0	0	0	5
Finance & Financial Management	1	0	0	0	1
Computer Systems Networking	0	0	1	0	1
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)	0	0	0	0	0
Other Business, Management & Marketing	0	0	0	0	0
Communication & Journalism (Other)	0	0	0	0	0
Public Relations & Advertising	0	0	0	0	0
Industrial Production Technology	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical Engineering	0	0	0	0	0
Systems Engineering	0	0	0	0	0
Physics	0	0	0	0	0
General Science Technologies/Technicians	0	0	0	0	0
Other Social Sciences	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	519	2	185	7	713

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 Bssasidhar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.