Great Location
The University campus lies about 60 miles east of New York City and 60 miles west of Montauk Point. Stony Brook's campus is set among 1,100 lush, wooded acres.

From campus it's an easy bicycle ride to picturesque villages and harbors of the North Shore or Long Island Sound beaches where spectacular sunsets and some of the best windsurfing on the East Coast can be enjoyed. A short drive will take you to spectacular Atlantic beaches at Fire Island, vineyards of the North Fork, or the elegant resorts of the Hamptons. And, with a Long Island Railroad Station right on the perimeter of the campus, a two-hour train ride will bring you to the heart of one of the most exciting cities in the world — New York City.

Institutional Stature
In the forty-four years since its founding, Stony Brook University has grown tremendously and is now recognized as one of the nation's leading centers of learning and scholarship — fulfilling the mandate given by the State Board of Regents in 1960 to become a university that would "stand with the finest in the country."

Stony Brook is in the forefront of integrating research and education at the undergraduate level and was recently selected by the National Science Foundation as one of only ten universities in the nation to receive a special recognition for this based on educational vision, a significant record of accomplishments, and leadership in the field of higher education.

Identified as a Type I Research University by the Carnegie Foundation — the highest classification and a distinction granted to fewer than 2% of all colleges and universities nationwide — Stony Brook joins the ranks of such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Stanford as the newest member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the prestigious organization of research universities whose membership now totals 63 nationwide.


World Class Faculty
Stony Brook's faculty are intellectual leaders in their disciplines. Our community of scholars, teachers and researchers includes a Nobel laureate, a Pulitzer Prize winner, four MacArthur Fellows, a Fields prize winner, recipients of the national Medal of Technology and the Benjamin Franklin Medal, 14 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 11 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and three members of the National Academy of Engineering. Stony Brook's faculty are also dedicated teachers, and include 105 recipients of the Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

With 1,902 faculty members, the faculty-student ratio is about one faculty member for every 14 students. All of Stony Brook's full-time faculty hold doctoral degrees or the highest degree in their field and more than 90 percent of the faculty are engaged in active research leading to publication and development of new technology, including the MRI and bar code.


Cosmopolitan Student Body
Stony Brook's enrollment is 22,355, with students hailing from all 50 states and 80 foreign countries. Currently there are 14,084 undergraduates and 8,271 graduate students. The overwhelming majority of first-time, full-time Stony Brook students are still in attendance after their first year. More than half of Stony Brook's undergraduates live on campus.