Today, Stony Brook has achieved the national stature envisioned by the State Board of Regents. As part of the State University of New York, Stony Brook is accredited by the Middle States Association. One hundred and five buildings have risen on this 1,100-acre campus, while its faculty has grown to more than 1,540. In addition to superb academic facilities, such as the Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library, students find diverse cultural and recreational opportunities in the Staller Center for the Arts, the Stony Brook Union and convenient athletic facilities. Situated among fields and woodland just ten minutes from beaches on Long Island Sound, the campus includes bike paths, a duck pond and a 26-acre nature preserve.
Trains depart almost hourly for New York City from a station adjacent to the campus.
University Academic Programs Stony Brook offers students opportunities to pursue both traditional and innovative curricula. Major programs build on the core curriculum, which stresses writing, quantitative literacy and the serious examination of intellectual and societal issues. The caliber of faculty, strong in pure and applied research, basic and clinical sciences and creative arts, results in excellent teaching and in program offerings at the forefront of rapidly changing areas of knowledge. The faculty provides a broad spectrum of opportunities for undergraduates to collaborate with them in research and creative activities. In addition to the Health Sciences Center, the academic divisions are the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy, Graduate School, School of Professional Development, and the Marine Sciences Research Center.