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unitid 196097 · Stony Brook, NY · public 4-year · suburb (large)

Stony Brook University

Public university in Stony Brook, New York, US

founded
1957
enrollment 2023
32,674
predominant degree
Bachelor's

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly referred to as Stony Brook University (SBU), is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's two flagship institutions. Its campus consists of 213 buildings on over 1,454 acres of land in Suffolk County and it is the largest public university in the state of New York. wikipedia rev 1364004645 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

49%

10th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

18,101

85th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

39%

undergrads on Pell grants

71st pctl among public 4-years

completion

76%

finish within 150% time

93rd pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$30,539

89th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$18,784

after aid, aided students

87th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$74,502

after entry, Title IV students

95th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$18,228

39th 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 $12,943 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

  • 0-30k
    37%
  • 30-48k
    16%
  • 48-75k
    12%
  • 75-110k
    11%
  • 110k+
    23%
Median family income
$36,505
First-generation students
36%
In-state tuition & fees
$10,931

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.1× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Psychology, General.616$60,999$20,500
Biology, General.522$68,096$21,000
Business Administration, Management and Operations.493$74,434$19,500
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.401$77,240$20,780
Applied Mathematics.341$89,923$19,000
Economics.295$80,632$21,550
Social Work.273$69,480—
Computer Science.256——
Computer Science.246——
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.196$106,785$23,000
Educational Administration and Supervision.177$138,594—
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.169$131,398—

— 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 · 2,837 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 (1,032) · basketball player (264) · university teacher (207) · physicist (91) · computer scientist (68) · mathematician (68) · writer (41) · psychologist (35)

The portrait wall

Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Also recorded: Diane Farr, Ayşe Erzan, Alia Sabur.

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built 2026-07-17

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 1364004645), CC BY-SA 4.0.