Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University, part of the State University of New York system, was founded in 1957 in Oyster Bay as a teacher's college and moved to its current Stony Brook campus on Long Island in 1962. Today it is New York's flagship public university and is classified as an R1 research institution. Times Higher Education ranks it among the world's top 1% of universities, and U.S. News and World Report places it first among public universities in New York.

The university offers more than 200 majors, minors and combined-degree programmes across its colleges and schools, spanning undergraduate and graduate study. Its technical and academic strengths lie in research, health sciences, and clinical and medical sciences. Stony Brook Medicine, the institution's health sciences enterprise, comprises several health sciences schools and clinical facilities, providing roles for clinicians, researchers and health educators alongside those in teaching and administration.

Employees work within a large academic community alongside world-class faculty and across research initiatives that contribute to education, knowledge and regional economic development. The institution describes a culture oriented toward growth and the advancement of knowledge, with a presence in Stony Brook and Oyster Bay in New York State and an international reach through its research and academic programmes.