Think Global
The University has won seven awards for the strength of its international programs, notably being honored by NAFSA: Association of International Educators as one of five premier schools with extraordinary achievement in internationalization.
Think Binghamton the world over.
More than 90,000 Binghamton alumni bring new ideas and leadership to communities around the globe, but almost 50,000 graduates, including talented international alumni who have chosen to make the United States home, choose to live, work and raise their families in New York state.
Long before globalization became a buzzword, Binghamton recognized the importance of teaching students about the world and fostering an international exchange of ideas. That’s why more than 1,500 international students from 90 countries attend Binghamton University, while dozens of visiting international scholars and faculty bring their worldly perspective to our campus.
The University also plays a central role in the State University of New York's award-winning dual-diploma program with Turkey, enrolling more Turkish students and offering more areas of study to them than any of the other nine participating SUNY campuses. The program recently received the prestigious Andrew Heiskell Award for International Exchange Partnerships from the Institute of International Education.
Global markets will start in Binghamton at the University's biotechnology building, the University's state-of-the-art biotechnology facility, which formally opened in 2006, providing top-notch, flexible laboratory space for biotechnology research and a home to the Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging Center, a New York State Center of Excellence.
Activities at the facility will be a significant contributor to the economic future of the region and the state, providing equipment and services for faculty research and start-up companies, as well as offering shared access to otherwise cost-prohibitive or first of it's kind equipment to such industry collaborators as Kodak, BAE Systems, IBM, General Electric, Corning, Endicott Interconnect Technologies and Philips.
Start-ups in the facility are all related to faculty research, connected to the life sciences, and must hold promise of going to market with product within five years. Already, two fledgling companies have outgrown the start-up suite, with several more in the pipeline.
