Think Student Achievement
Quite simply, Binghamton University students are remarkable. They arrive smart and leave poised to make a difference.
As a student body, individually and in national competitions, they consistently excel.
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Ninety-one percent bring advanced credit; the average SAT score for the Class of '11 is 1267 (versus 1028 national average). More New York State students planning for college have their SAT scores sent to Binghamton University than to any other school. More than that, they tend to be the state's top students. A freshman-to-sophomore retention rate consistently above 90 percent attests to the University's record for creating an invigorating living-and-learning culture that draws the best scholars.
Recent student award winners in national and international competitions:
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Already the recipient of the Young Technologist of the Year Award from the Technology Alliance of Central New York in Syracuse, Guru Madhavan, a doctoral student in bioengineering, recently won the 2007 Mike Sargeant Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Last year, Decker School of Nursing student Karen Sidi was the first-prize winner in the Health category of the Student and Faculty Awards for Nursing Excellence sponsored by science publisher Elsevier. School of Management student Bert Gervais and his online business, Placefinder, took first place in the East Coast Collegiate Entrepreneur Awards competition. Each year Intel sponsors a Best Student Paper Award in modeling or advanced packaging, and in 2005 Parthiban Arunsalam, a doctoral mechanical engineering student in the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, won it.
The University’s Speech and Debate Team maintained a No. 1 national ranking in 2007-08, defeating Cornell, Harvard and other top schools in the demanding competitions.
Binghamton's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) has had the highest graduation rate among SUNY-wide programs for more than a decade: 67 percent compared with 46 percent statewide and 58 percent at a sister program at private in-state colleges. Participants go on to achieve continuing success and are represented in an array of professions. Many enter the helping/counseling fields, continuing the legacy of their EOP mentors.
