Binghamton University
The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public research university with campuses in Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City, New York. It is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York (SUNY) system.[8][9] As of Fall 2020, 18,128 undergraduate and graduate students attended the university.[10]
Former names
Triple Cities College of Syracuse University (1946–1950)
Harpur College (1950–1965)
"From breadth through depth to perspective"[1]
On seal: "Unity, Identity, Excellence"
1946
$ 148.1 million (2021)[2]
Donald E. Hall[3]
768 (2019)[4]
18,148 (Spring 2022)[5]
14,333 (2022)[5]
3,815 (2022)[5]
Green[7]
Baxter the Bearcat
Since its establishment in 1946, the school has evolved from a small liberal arts college to a large research university. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[11] Binghamton's athletic teams are the Bearcats and they compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Bearcats are members of the America East Conference.
History[edit]
Establishment[edit]
Binghamton University was established in 1946 in Endicott, New York, as Triple Cities College[12][13] to serve the needs of local veterans returning from World War II. Thomas J. Watson, a founding member of IBM in Broome County, viewed the Triple Cities region as an area of great potential. In the early 1940s he collaborated with local leaders to begin establishing Triple Cities College as a two-year junior college operating as a satellite of private Syracuse University. Watson also donated land that would become the school's early home.
Originally, Triple Cities College students finished their bachelor's degrees at Syracuse. By the 1948–1949 academic year, the degrees could be completed entirely in Binghamton. In 1950, it split from Syracuse and became incorporated into the public State University of New York (SUNY) system as Harpur College, named in honor of Robert Harpur, a colonial teacher and pioneer who settled in the Binghamton area. At that time, Harpur and Champlain College in Plattsburgh were the only two liberal arts schools in the New York state system.[14] When Champlain closed in 1952 to make way for the Plattsburgh Air Force Base, the records and some students and faculty were transferred to Harpur College in Binghamton. Harpur also received 16,000 non-duplicate volumes and the complete contents of the Champlain College library.
Academic rankings
118–144
65
73
107
163
501–600
1001–1200
601–800
984
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