We’re proud of the inspiring moments that take place on our campus, whether they come in the form of academic discovery or new social experiences or athletic achievements.
Blending nearly a century and a half of educating students with state-of-the-art facilities and quality professors, the SUNY Cortland experience is punctuated by several noteworthy feats and achievements.
Here are just a few of them:
- Our nearly 70 percent, six-year graduation rate is the highest of any comprehensive college in the 64-campus SUNY system. And our “success rate,” a SUNY-wide measure used to track student retention, is nearly 93 percent — also tops among comprehensive colleges in the system.
- We boast the largest certified teacher education program in New York state and one of the largest accredited teacher education programs on the East Coast.
- Major campus centers for undergraduate research and creative activity include two of the most recently renovated buildings: Bowers Hall, the home of the sciences, and Dowd Fine Arts Center, host to many artistic programs.
- We’ve been named to the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll eight years in a row, tabbed as one of the nation’s best colleges in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey and selected as one of the top 100 best values in public colleges in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
- We’re the first, and only, institution in the 64-campus SUNY system to operate with 100 percent renewable electricity, underscored by nearly 4,000 campus solar panels and 40 geothermal wells.
- We were one of the first SUNY institutions to go completely tobacco-free in 2013. Our stated goal is to become the healthiest college campus in the nation.
- Our one-of-a-kind Outdoor Education Center at Raquette Lake, a fully equipped learning facility in the Adirondack Mountains, is used by an increasing number of students each year, from biology majors to aspiring writers.
- We claim one of the best NCAA Div. III athletic programs in the country. It is one of only six Division III programs — out of nearly 450 — to place in the top 25 of every NCAA Directors’ Cup standings, which have ranked athletic excellence across all sports since 1996.