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Academic units † 
School of Architecture
College of Arts and Sciences
School of Education
College of Human Services and Health Professions
School of Information Studies
College of Law
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Martin J. Whitman School of Management
Continuing Education/University College
Graduate School
Centers and Institutes †
Ballentine Investment Institute
Biomaterials Center
Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture
Burton Blatt Institute for Disability Studies
Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Center for Digital Literacy
Center for Health and Behavior
Center for Indigenous Law, Governance, and Citizenship
Center on Human Policy
Center for Natural Language Processing
Center for Policy Research
Center for Technology and Information Policy
Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship
Information Institute of Syracuse
Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Daniel P. Moynihan Global Affairs Institute
NYS Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE)
NYS Science and Technology Law Center
Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts
Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service
Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)
UPSTATE: A Center for Design Research and Real Estate
† Partial listing
Founded
Officially chartered in 1870 as a private, coeducational institution offering programs in the physical sciences and modern languages.
Location
Syracuse, New York, the geographic center of the state and approximately 250 miles northwest of New York City.
Nancy Cantor, 11th Chancellor and President.
Faculty
Full-time instructional faculty, 909; part-time faculty, 106; adjunct faculty, 447. Of the full-time faculty, approximately 88 percent have earned Ph.D. or professional degrees.
Staff
Full-time staff, 3,259; part-time staff, 371.
Living alumni on record
231,036
Libraries
Total volumes: 3.18 million; more than 7.4 million microforms; 22,865 current periodicals/serials; 25,638 databases and e-journals.
Academic computers
SU students, faculty, and staff have access to a broad array of computing and networked services, including high-speed wired and wireless network connections; web-based course management systems that expand learning opportunities beyond the classroom; some 30 computing labs, which house more than 1,000 PCs equipped with specialized software that supports teaching and learning; and some 200 classrooms equipped with the latest multimedia technologies.
Tuition
Full-time undergraduate tuition: $30,470 per year plus housing, meals, and expenses.
Financial aid
Approximately 64 percent of all undergraduate students receive need-based financial aid from Syracuse University and other sources. Overall, 79 percent receive some form of financial support, including assistance from institutional, federal, state, or private sources.
* Fall 2007 enrollment, 12,491 full-time and 712 part-time undergraduate students; 3,926 full-time and 1,955 part-time graduate and law students. Total University enrollment is 19,084.
The 2007 undergraduate full-time class of 12,491 includes 2,710 (22 percent) African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latino students. Of these, 850 are African American. Of the entering freshman class of 3,098, there are 895 (29 percent) students from underrepresented groups.
Student demographics*
Students at Syracuse University represent 50 states and more than 115 foreign countries. Of the total student population, 10 percent are from foreign countries. Of the fall 2007 undergraduate full-time class, approximately 41 percent are from New York State (16 percent of enrolled full-time undergraduates are from the New York City area), 55 percent are from other states, and 4 percent are from foreign countries. Of these, 56 percent of full-time undergraduate students are women; 44 percent are men.
2006-2007 graduates*
Bachelors, 2,819; Masters, 1,535; Juris Doctors, 207; Doctoral, 142.
Freshman class SAT scores
The middle 50 percent of SAT scores range from 1130 to 1310.
Long-term investment fund
At the end of the fiscal year (6/30/07), the market value was approximately $1,047.5 million.
2006 - 2007 contributions
$120 million in gifts and pledges from individuals, corporations, foundations, and planned gifts.
Office of sponsored programs
A total of $63.3 million was awarded for research, teaching, and other sponsored programs in fiscal year 2007. The federal government is the major sponsor ($36.2 million). The largest non-federal sponsor is New York State ($17.6 million).
*Unless otherwise noted, figures represent Syracuse University's Main Campus and Syracuse University Continuing Education (SUCE).
Hill highlights
| 1870 | SU promotes equal education for men and women. |
| 1874 | SU offers the nation's first bachelor of fine arts degree. |
| 1924 | SU creates the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the first to bring together the social sciences for public administration education. |
| 1934 | SU pioneers one of the nation's first schools of journalism, now the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. |
| 1946 | SU welcomes 9,664 returning World War II veterans, tripling enrollment overnight. |
| 1961 | SU celebrates the selection of All-America halfback Ernie Davis as the Heisman Trophy winner; he is the first African American to earn this coveted award. |
| 1967 | SU joins the Association of American Universities as one of a select group of American and Canadian research universities chosen for membership. |
| 1974 | SU changes the name of the School of Library Science (est. 1896) to the School of Information Studies to reflect the new role of information in our society. |
| 1980 | SU builds the Carrier Dome, the first domed athletic stadium of its kind on a university campus. |
| 1996 | SU receives the Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for best demonstrating successful innovative faculty development programs to enhance undergraduate education. |
| 2002 | SU becomes the site of the NYS Center of Excellence in Environmental Systems. |
| 2003 | SU wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. |
| 2004 | SU inaugurates Nancy Cantor as the University's 11th Chancellor and President. |
| 2005 | SU earns recognition as one of the nation's "Colleges with a Conscience." |
| 2006 | SU hosts the international summit "Small World/Big Divides" focusing on practical strategies for peace. |
| 2007 | SU launches The Campaign for Syracuse University. |
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