unitid 196088 · Buffalo, NY · public 4-year · suburb (large)
University at Buffalo
Public university in Buffalo, New York, US
- founded
- 1846
- enrollment 2023
- 35,749
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- buffalo.edu/
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The State University of New York at Buffalo is a public research university in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. The university was founded in 1846 as a private medical college and merged with the State University of New York system in 1962. It is one of two flagship institutions of the SUNY system, along with Stony Brook University. As of fall 2023, the university enrolled nearly 32,000 students in 13 schools and colleges, making it the largest public university in the state of New York. wikipedia rev 1360847926 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
74%
33rd pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
20,112
87th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
33%
undergrads on Pell grants
54th pctl among public 4-years
completion
75%
finish within 150% time
92nd pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$30,785
90th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$20,995
after aid, aided students
93rd pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$70,814
after entry, Title IV students
90th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$19,000
44th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $14,668 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k31%
- 30-48k14%
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $46,678
- First-generation students
- 28%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $10,936
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 712 | $70,223 | $21,500 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 639 | — | — |
| Psychology, General. | 564 | $54,929 | $20,830 |
| Engineering, General. | 452 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 341 | $68,513 | $22,481 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 330 | $57,140 | $22,251 |
| Information Science/Studies. | 256 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 254 | $110,541 | $20,500 |
| Social Work. | 240 | $55,863 | — |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 220 | $81,124 | $23,944 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 181 | $90,970 | $26,117 |
| Medicine. | 175 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 2,503 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (748) · basketball player (350) · university teacher (213) · politician (76) · writer (59) · lawyer (47) · American football player (46) · poet (46)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry 1985
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Harvey Weinstein
58 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herbert A. Hauptman
57 wikis · Public domain
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
53 wikis · Public domain
Gregory Jarvis
37 wikis · Public domain
Silvia Federici
37 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0 es
Donald Barthelme
34 wikis · Public domain
Robin Li
33 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Ellen S. Baker
33 wikis · Public domain
Winston Duke
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bram Cohen
32 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Samuel R. Delany
32 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ron Silver
30 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Peter Riegert
29 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Also recorded: Leslie White, James Foley.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1360847926), CC BY-SA 4.0.