The Path of a Great University
The University at Buffalo has always reached beyond itself to be better. Now, in its third century, UB is ready to finally and fully achieve its vast potential. | See Details
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OVERVIEW
The plan is a $5 billion investment to create 7 million square feet of space to be constructed over a minimum of 20 years. By growing on its three campuses, UB will significantly increase its economic and cultural impact on the Buffalo Niagara region. Over the next two decades, implementation of the plan is projected to generate an additional $20 billion or more in regional economic impact.
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LOGIC
The plan articulates a long-range vision to create one great university with three seamlessly connected campuses with distinct personalities and purposes, including a renewed presence in the city’s urban core with creation of an Academic Health Center with UB’s five professional health schools located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
Growth, Migration and Transformation
UB will be a great university on three campuses – suburban, city and downtown – growing in intellectual power, reorganized for interdisciplinary work, with more functional, sustainable and lovable places to attract the world’s best minds. | See Details
One University
The plan will make UB whole, connecting campuses to community and to each other, creating great places to improve the quality of daily life, and providing the equipment, facilities and spaces needed to support our basic mission: discovery. | See Details
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CAMPUS CONCEPTS
The plan calls for one great university with three distinctive campus environments that are tailored to their respective suburban, urban and downtown settings; better connected with each other; and better integrated with their surrounding neighborhoods. Spaces on all three campuses will promote interdisciplinary collaboration and create fertile environments for teaching, research and service.
North Campus
The plan will make our modern suburban campus warmer, more welcoming and more sustainable as it continues to be the intellectual core of the university, housing arts and sciences, engineering and management. | See Details
South Campus
We will restore a classic American collegiate campus and make it a center for inter-professional education, bringing together urban-oriented disciplines of law, management, education, social work, and architecture and planning. | See Details
Downtown Campus
Our Downtown Campus will marry UB medical education with clinical care and health sciences research—a great university in partnership with Buffalo Niagara’s pre-eminent hospital and its renowned comprehensive cancer research center. | See Details
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IMPLEMENTATION
The plan is the result of the input of thousands of people, including members of the university community and the public. Its implementation will require approximately $2.9 billion in special requests for state funds to build core academic facilities, plus $2.1 billion to be funded by UB from revenue streams earned in concert with private partners, philanthropy and other sources.
The Living Plan
We know the plan will mean little unless we get it done. That’s why the plan includes a project-by-project implementation process and a savvy approach to expanding the organizational and financial resources needed to make it a reality. | See Details