About UB

Profile of Excellence

Name University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
Affiliation A flagship institution in the State University of New York system, UB is the largest and most comprehensive in the 64-campus SUNY system; member, Association of American Universities
Founded 1846
Character A comprehensive, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence
Research $323 million (FY 2007)
Patents Awarded 54 (2003–07)
President John B. Simpson
Student Body
  • 28,054 (fall 2007)
  • 18,779 undergraduate
  • 9,275 graduate and professional
Degrees 7,037 (2006–07)
Faculty
  • 1,620 full-time (fall 2007)
  • 1,047 part-time
Alumni
  • 197,692 in 122 countries (fall 2007)
  • 105,708 in New York state
Employment 10,035 full-time
Operating $1.3 billion (FY 2006)
Endowment $566.4 million (fall 2007)
Economic Impact $1.5 billion per year
Athletics Division I, Mid-American Conference
Mascots The Bulls (Victor E. and Victoria S.)

A Full Spectrum of Programs

  • 78 undergraduate degrees
  • 177 master’s degrees
  • 82 doctoral degrees
  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • Architecture and Planning
  • Dental Medicine
  • Education
  • Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Law
  • Management
  • Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Public Health and Health Professions
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute Graduate Division
  • Social Work

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Improving Life With Discovery

UB spends more than $323 million annually on research, seeking knowledge that leads to new cures, improved processes, stronger materials, faster computers, smarter software, smaller machines, and thousands of other improvements to life that flow from a great research university. | More

Discovery into Innovation

UB faculty inventors have contributed to the invention of:

  • implantable battery-operated cardiac pacemakers
  • PSA test for prostate cancer
  • automated handwritten zip code scanners
  • “smart” concrete
  • photodynamic cancer therapy and promising new drugs

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We Move the World

Our 197,053 alumni live in every state and in 122 countries around the world. Among our celebrated graduates: NASA’s lead astronaut for medical issues, the Minister for Higher Education in the People’s Republic of China, the founder of Miramax Films, the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. | More

Pride of Place

North Campus
Amherst, New York
1,192 acres, 146 buildings
South Campus
Buffalo, New York
154 acres, 53 buildings
Downtown Campus
Buffalo, New York
Various sites including Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Research Institute on Addictions, Educational Opportunity Center, Anderson Gallery, the Jacobs Executive Development Center and the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. | More

UB Around the World

UB is one of the most attractive destinations for international students: we rank eleventh in the U.S. in international enrollment. We also send our students out into the world: nearly 10 percent of UB students study abroad, five times the national average.

Last updated: 2/19/08