Overview

The University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (UB) is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. UB is a flagship institution in the State University of New York system. The University is the largest and most comprehensive campus in the 64-campus SUNY system and is a member of the Association of American Universities.

Vision

The University’s vision is to ensure the continued growth of academic excellence at UB by anticipating, meeting and solving the unique challenges that confront the University in the twenty-first century.

History

The University at Buffalo was founded in 1846 as a private medical college. The College merged with the State University of New York system in 1962.

Programs

Academic programs offered by UB include more than 100 undergraduate courses (including combined degrees), 190 masters’ degrees, 83 doctoral degrees and four professional degrees through its schools and colleges.

International Students

The University is home to over 28,000 students of which international students form a significant population. There are over 208,000 international alumni of UB in 130 countries.

Research

A research-intensive institution that it is, UB’s advanced research spans across a broad range of disciplines and fosters a better quality of life on local, regional, national, and global levels. The University makes high annual investments on research to seek knowledge that leads to new cures, improved processes, stronger materials, faster computers, smarter software, smaller machines and other improvements to life.

The University’s strength in medicine, engineering, and computer science enables conducting multidisciplinary research and providing education at a level of excellence that only a few universities can match. UB’s faculty members have a strong research orientation and have established an outstanding record of research, scholarship and creative activity.

Facts

• The University is ranked 12th among American colleges and universities, in percentage of international enrollment.
• Nearly 12 percent of UB students study abroad which is five times the national average. UB has exchange programs with 70 universities around the world.
• UB’s celebrated alumni include NASA’s lead astronaut for medical issues, the minister for Higher education in the People’s Republic of China, the founder of Miramax Films, the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and cofounder of Baidu.com, the largest Chinese search engine and second-largest independent search engine in the world.
• Guests of honor in the UB’s Distinguished Speakers Series, which was launched in 1987, have included Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison, former president Jimmy Carter, actor Sidney Poitier, and news anchor Katie Couric. Honored speakers of past decades have included Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Benjamin Spock, and Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Wall Street Journal ranks the UB School of Management 9th in the nation among schools with strong regional recruiting bases.
• UB faculty inventors have contributed to the invention of:
       o Implantable battery-operated cardiac pacemaker 
       o PSA test for prostate cancer
       o Photodynamic cancer therapy
       o Infasurf lung surfactant
       o Pattern recognition software
       o Talent™ thoracic stent graft 
       o Teleradiology 3-D viewer and data transmission system