by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Buffalo State was awarded 9 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is art studies.
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College Factual ranked Buffalo State as #1,097 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Buffalo State held the #1,764 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Buffalo State also holds the #100 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
With an acceptance rate of 86%, Buffalo State has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 14% of students accepted to Buffalo State submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 470 and 600. Math scores were between 470 and 578.
The student to faculty ratio at Buffalo State is about average at 13 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Buffalo State is 52%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 49% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Buffalo State. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 26% for first-time, full-time students at Buffalo State, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,309 undergraduates at Buffalo State with 6,582 being full-time and 727 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,617 | $12,959 | $17,129 | $18,834 | $21,204 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Buffalo State, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Buffalo State, approximately 58% of students took out student loans averaging $5,903 a year. That adds up to $23,612 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Buffalo State is 1.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for Buffalo State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222 |
| Phone: | 716-878-4000 |
| Website: | https://suny.buffalostate.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/BuffaloStateCollege |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/buffalostate |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 204 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 200 | $36,654 |
| Business Administration & Management | 158 | $38,283 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 132 | $34,646 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 124 | $34,042 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 109 | $32,082 |
| General Psychology | 81 | $32,994 |
| Special Education | 72 | $16,737 |
| Information Science | 64 | $49,686 |
| Social Work | 61 | $39,695 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 2,352 students took at least one online class at Buffalo State. This is a decrease from the 2,972 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,352 | 369 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,972 | 545 |
| 2020-2021 | 7,928 | 3,943 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,261 | 299 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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