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Center for World University Rankings has SBU at #128 Globally, and #56 in the United States. This puts us ahead of powerhouses such as:

Rice
Georgia Tech
Case Western Reserve
Georgetown


and many more. They also have us miles ahead of all the other SUNYs(Buffalo is at 273). I'm not complaining one bit 

http://cwur.org/2018-19/usa.php

great stuff VA.  thanks for sharing!!!

https://news.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-matters/alumni/stony-brook-university-named-34th-best-us-college-by-money-magazine-26/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=matters_ad_aug

Stony Brook University has been named the 34th best college in the US, as well as the 22nd best public institution, in an annual ranking released by MONEY Magazine.

President Stanley mentioned a couple years ago that he wanted SB to be a Top 20 public so we're getting there. Binghamton already is Top 20, so no reason SB can't.

The completion of the fund raising  with 630 million should help immensely .  Brighter day ahead for sure.

Is any of this money earmarked for athletics??

Quote from: Hammertime on August 28, 2018, 05:24:00 pm

Quote from: Seawolf97 on August 28, 2018, 02:36:49 pm

The completion of the fund raising  with 630 million should help immensely .  Brighter day ahead for sure.

Is any of this money earmarked for athletics??

We supposedly exceeded our goal by 5%. That works out to about $32 million. Know what we can do with 32 million? Expand the stadium, which is the largest capex hurdle between where we are, and were we're trying to go.

I have a better idea what to do with the money, and it is football related. Spend the money on a new, high caliber head coach and pay this coach more money than any other CAA coach. That will eventually get us better recruits which in return we win the conference and possibly compete with NDSU for the trophy. That is how you expand a stadium, over time!!!!!

USN&WR rankings came out today. SBU tied with Binghamton for 80th nationally among National Universities. 

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

These are important rankings and I believe we moved up 17 spots. That is a BIG jump and is I believe our highest ranking on record. This is great news for us and everyone at the university should be shouting these rankings from the rooftops since we're closer to where we should be now. Note how we're ahead of UB, and tied with Binghamton who many people say is "better" than we are. Fantastic news 

Other notable universities this puts us ahead of are Michigan State, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, RIT, Delaware, and Arizona.

agreed.  even though i question the utility of these rankings (can you really say with any authority that #26 is better than #27? nonsense), the fact is that kids use them.  we just love to put things in order add a value.

especially given that large universities have separate colleges, etc.  that would be better in my mind if you ranked colleges.  this is where our math/sciences shine of course.

VA you made an excellent but subtle point- where we should be.  i think most reasonable people, even subjective alums, would agree we arent in the ranks of princeton, duke, stanford, yale, and the like.  so it's realistic to say that we belong more in the 70-ish range at best, i think. 

but if you factor in my comment above- how silly it is to try to rank these- i think in buckets is better.  with that said, i dont see why we couldnt be as high as 50-something (uconn, smu, miami?).