by our College Data Analytics Team
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Stony Brook University was awarded 125 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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SUNY Stony Brook landed the #153 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when SUNY Stony Brook held the #253 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
SUNY Stony Brook is also ranked #14 out of 136 schools in New York.
If you're applying to Stony Brook University you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 49%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 41% of students accepted to SUNY Stony Brook submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 640 and 720. Math scores were between 680 and 780.
At Stony Brook University, the student to faculty ratio is 19 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Stony Brook University is 63%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 88% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Stony Brook University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at SUNY Stony Brook for first-time, full-time students is 63%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 18,010 undergraduates at SUNY Stony Brook with 16,586 being full-time and 1,424 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,773 | $14,412 | $19,957 | $22,757 | $25,427 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of SUNY Stony Brook, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At SUNY Stony Brook, approximately 43% of students took out student loans averaging $7,068 a year. That adds up to $28,272 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for SUNY Stony Brook are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 310 Administration Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-0701 |
| Phone: | 631-632-6000 |
| Website: | https://www.stonybrook.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Dentistry | 635 | NA |
| General Psychology | 618 | $32,306 |
| General Biology | 602 | $25,253 |
| Business Administration & Management | 559 | $43,329 |
| Applied Mathematics | 500 | $44,972 |
| Nursing | 447 | $94,853 |
| Health Sciences & Services | 446 | $34,538 |
| Computer Science | 423 | NA |
| Social Work | 348 | NA |
| Economics | 306 | $44,349 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 15,999 students took at least one online class at Stony Brook University. This is a decrease from the 17,593 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 15,999 | 2,171 |
| 2021-2022 | 17,593 | 3,072 |
| 2020-2021 | 24,029 | 12,571 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,466 | 1,309 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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