Learn more about "America's Best Designed City."
Billed as the “20-Minute City” and "America's Best Designed City," Buffalo's world-class design makes getting around a snap.
Forbes magazine declared Buffalo the “best U.S. city” for commuting.
In fact, Buffalo’s average commute time—it has been clocked at 20 minutes—is the second-shortest of the country’s 52 largest cities.
That translates to an enhanced quality of life for our faculty, staff and students, who enjoy stress-free travel regardless of where they’re headed around the region.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture, called Buffalo “the best planned city, as to its streets, public places, and grounds, in the United States, if not the world."
Visit us and you'll be surprised at our tremendous geography, street designs, parks, neighborhoods and architecture.
Buffalo’s Metro Bus provides quick, economical service throughout the city and suburbs.
The Metro Rail line
connects UB’s South Campus with downtown Buffalo, including
UB's Downtown Campus, and the neighborhoods in between. Rides
above ground are free in downtown Buffalo. UB employees who are
regular commuters might wish to take advantage of the NYS-Ride
program that allows pre-tax dollars to be used for monthly
passes.
Within 90 miles of Buffalo, there are more than 650 life sciences companies, many of which collaborate with local research and academic institutions in a variety of industries, ranging from medical devices and biomedical informatics to drug development and biotechnology. These include more than 160 biomedical firms in the Buffalo Niagara region that employ more than 6,000 people.
The Buffalo Niagara region has nearly 1,000 life sciences graduates each year, plus tremendous academic and research talent in the neighboring areas of Rochester and Syracuse, New York and Toronto and Southern Ontario.
