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The main campus is a large site on Long Island’s North Shore, which spans over 1,000 acres and houses the main academic areas, an 8,300-seat stadium and sports complex, and a university hospital, Stony Brook Medicine. In addition to this, there are two satellite campuses – one in midtown Manhattan and the other in the town of Southampton.

The main campus is located in the historic north shore hamlet of Stony Brook near the geographic midpoint of Long Island, approximately 80 km east of Manhattan and 108 km west of Montauk. 

Bounded to the north by New York State Route 25A (North Country Road) the campus is subdivided into "West Campus" and "East Campus" by the thoroughfare County Road 97 (Nicolls Road). The Ashley Schiff Forest Preserve separates the South Campus from West Campus. The Long Island Rail Road serves the community with the Stony Brook Station situated along the northern edge of the campus.

In 2013, Stony Brook University launched its own bike share system to provide a sustainable transportation alternative for students - Wolf Ride Bike Share. In 2016, the university provides 8 stations and 63 bikes.

Academic activity pauses each Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. for campus lifetime, when students can check out free concerts, sample free food and take a break from the rigor of classes. Annually, students gather for events like the Roth Pond Regatta, a race of student-made cardboard boats, and the Shirley Strum Kenny Student Arts Festival, a week of student work showcases. Students can also check out more than 300 student organizations on campus, including more than 30 fraternities and sororities.

For a workout off the field, students can bike and hike around Stony Brook’s large wooded campus, which includes the Ashley Schiff Park Preserve. For an urban experience, New York City is about 60 miles away.

Stony Brook has wide variety of student-run organizations on campus including sororities and fraternities and a count of almost 300 recognized student clubs and organizations. The Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook University is trusted with the responsibility of budgeting the undergraduate student activity fee, which funds most student run organizations on campus. Graduate students also pay a graduate student activity fee, which is budgeted by the Graduate Student Organization.

There are 28 residence halls and 23 apartment-style buildings on campus where approximately 83 % of undergraduates live. Freshmen do not have to live on campus.

All residence halls and apartments offer wireless Internet access, computing and fitness centers and all rooms have high-speed Internet and cable TV. 24-hour quiet communities, alcohol/tobacco-free residence halls and modest lifestyle areas are available in several quads.

Stony Brook career center offers variety of services:

• In-person live workshops.
• Live and recorded webinars.
• The student employment program, which offers a new student employee orientation along with several career-building workshops tailored to the needs of on-campus workers.
• Student employment on campus. This workshop will serve as an introduction to on-campus student employment. 
• Workplace etiquette for student employees and resume writing.
• The workshops on interviewing skills for student employees which help students develop their interviewing skills for on-campus positions.

Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $61,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $27,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,000, room and board - $13,000, personal and transportation costs - $2,000.

Stony Brook University, SBU located in Long Island, just 60 miles east of New York City is one of four New York State’s universities.

It is a public research institution with a sea and space grant as well as being a member of the Association of American Universities, and a National Merit institution. It is also one of just 10 universities in the United States recognized by the National Science Foundation for their combination of research and undergraduate study.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook was established in Oyster Bay in 1957 as the State University College on Long Island (SUCOLI), by the governor and state of New York. Established almost a decade after the creation of New York’s public higher education system, the institution was envisioned as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers

Today Stony Brook is an internationally recognized research university offering graduate degrees in the arts and sciences, engineering, business, and the health professions including 44 doctoral programs and a wide variety of master's and certificate programs. The 2014 U.S.News & World Report Best Grad Schools ranked 10 of those programs in the top 50. 

Enrollment total is 24,000: 16,000 undergraduates and 8,000 graduate students from 49 U.S. states and 105 countries. A member of the elite Association of American Universities, Stony Brook is one of the 62 top research institutions in North America with $182.7 million in annual sponsored research and 1,866 active research projects. 

Stony Brook faculty are leaders in significant national and worldwide projects including uncovering the causes of lobster mortality in Long Island Sound, searching for the origins of man in Kenya’s Turkana Basin and managing the national parks of Madagascar. They have made significant contributions to NASA initiatives such as examining Martian minerals for evidence of life and other phenomena. In all their work has led to some groundbreaking discoveries.

In 2015, Stony Brook was ranked the 33rd best value among the country’s public institutions for in-state students, and the 26th for out-of-state students by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. I

n 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked Stony Brook University as the 96th overall among national universities and the 42nd among public universities. Best Colleges, the National Universities SUNY's ranking in the 2017 edition placed Stony Brook University the 96th nationally.

Among notable alumni are Jai Gulati – businessperson and CEO of Systel, Jeff Raskin - author and co-creator of the Macintosh computer at Apple Computer, Inc., Joy Behar Comedian - TV personality and talk show host and many others.

SBU has 13 schools and colleges in total, including the Graduate School and Honours College.

The School of Engineering, the School of Social Work and the School of Medicine and Biological Sciences are highly ranked in United States and worldwide.

The most popular majors by the number of students are health/medical preparatory programs, psychology, biology, business administration and management, nursing, economics.