Our Outstanding Faculty

At a world-class research university such as Stony Brook, you can expect to find world-class researchers and scholars. But many of our leading scholars and researchers are also inspiring teachers and they have the awards to prove it. At Stony Brook, we're committed to putting our best teachers into our undergraduate classes, so you can take courses in biochemistry, Spanish, music, philosophy, or any number of other subjects with teachers who've earned the recognition of their students and their peers as the best in their class.

In fact, many of our faculty have been recognized by the Chancellor of the State University of New York as some of the best teachers SUNY has to offer.

• With nearly 2,200 faculty, our student/faculty ratio is 18:1.


• Nearly all full-time faculty hold doctoral degrees or the highest degrees in their fields.


• More than 90% are engaged in active research and ranked second in articles published in prestigious journals.


• Responsible for more than 1,500 inventions and more than 400 patents.

Faculty awards include the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur Fellowships, the Fields Medal in Mathematics, the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology, and Grammy Awards. The internationally recognized Emerson String Quartet is quartet-in-residence here, teaching master classes and performing at the Staller Center for the Arts.

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