News Detail
09/10/2015
SUNY Cortland has once again been listed among the nation’s best colleges by U.S. News & World Report, adding yet another national recognition to the college’s growing list of accolades and achievements.
The College ranked 74th among masters-degree-granting institutions in the North region of U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 Best Colleges edition.
The recognition is just the most recent national acknowledgement of the exceptional educational experience SUNY Cortland offers:
- Consumers Digest named SUNY Cortland as one of the nation’s 50 “best values” among public colleges and universities, recognizing the institution as a leader in providing affordable, high-quality education.
- The Princeton Review recently named SUNY Cortland to its “Best in the Northeast” list for 2016, bestowing a stamp of approval given to only the top 25 percent of four-year colleges across the United States. The recognition is based on academic excellence and quality of student life.
- SUNY Cortland athletes captured four Division III national titles this year: two team titles in baseball and women’s lacrosse and two individual titles in wrestling and women’s gymnastics.
- The College ended the year with the top Division III athletics program in New York, based on the 2014-15 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup competition. The College finished 12th among the 450 eligible NCAA Division III programs. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), Learfield Sports and USA Today present the award annually to recognize overall excellence. SUNY Cortland is one of only five schools nationwide to place in the top 25 each of the 20 years the standings have been compiled on the Division III level.
- BestColleges.com named SUNY Cortland one of the nation’s top 50 small-town schools based on the College’s high level of student involvement in the community, the availability of local outdoor education opportunities and its environment for student success.
- BestColleges.com also rated SUNY Cortland as one of the greenest colleges in the United States. The national ranking looks at how successful campuses have been at implementing environmentally sustainable practices and polices. The College is the only SUNY institution on the list, and one of only four institutions from New York state to make the grade.
- SUNY Cortland is one of only 77 campuses nationwide to win a gold rating by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. No other SUNY campuses have scored that well, and only one school in the United States – Colorado State - has done better by achieving a platinum designation. The rating program is based on a range of sustainability information on College initiatives, capital improvements, academic programs and other issues.
- The federal Environmental Protection Agency named Cortland the green power champion of the State University of New York Athletic Conference, recognizing the College for using more renewable energy than any of the 10 schools in the SUNYAC.
- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching re-certified SUNY Cortland for its community engagement classification, making the College the first institution in the State University of New York system to win the reclassification. Fewer than 400 campuses nationwide can claim the designation, which recognizes involvement and commitment to the surrounding community.
- For the eighth consecutive year, SUNY Cortland was named to the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. It was also the fourth year in a row the College earned “with distinction” honors.
“We are very proud of our institution and the educational experience we offer our students,” SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum said. “We strive to make sure our students have every opportunity to reach their goals, and it is always gratifying when an outside organization recognizes that quality of effort.”