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SUNY Polytechnic Institute Data & Information Overview

10 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
82% Acceptance Rate
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How Well Is SUNY Polytechnic Institute Ranked?

#1,547 Best Colleges in Nation
#124 Best Colleges in NY
Health Professions Highest Ranked Major

2025 Rankings

College 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.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute was awarded 10 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health professions.

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Overall Quality

College Factual ranked SUNY Poly as #1,547 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 SUNY Poly held the #1,554 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

SUNY Poly is also ranked #124 out of 136 schools in New York.

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Is It Hard to Get Into SUNY Poly?

82% Acceptance Rate
32% Of Accepted Are Women

Acceptance Rate

SUNY Polytechnic Institute has an acceptance rate of 82%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.

Learn more about SUNY Polytechnic Institute admissions.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Faculty

13 to 1 Student to Faculty
50% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At SUNY Polytechnic Institute, this ratio is 13 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 SUNY Polytechnic Institute is 50%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  50 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at SUNY Polytechnic Institute

79% Freshmen Retention
40% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

SUNY Polytechnic Institute has a freshmen retention rate of 79%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.

Freshmen Retention Rate  79 out of 100
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Graduation Rate

Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At SUNY Poly the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 40%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%

On-Time Graduation Rate  40 out of 100
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Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,903 Full-Time Undergraduates
29.0% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
30.2% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,239 undergraduates at SUNY Poly with 1,903 being full-time and 336 being part-time.

How Much Does SUNY Polytechnic Institute Cost?

$12,949 Net Price
49% Take Out Loans
$26,088 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of SUNY Poly is $12,949. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for SUNY Poly

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$7,452 $9,706 $13,291 $15,895 $18,925

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 SUNY Poly, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

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 SUNY Poly, approximately 49% of students took out student loans averaging $6,522 a year. That adds up to $26,088 over four years for those students.

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How Much Money Do SUNY Poly Graduates Make?

$64,355 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Although some majors pay more than others, students who graduate from SUNY Poly with a bachelor's degree go on to jobs where they make an average salary of $64,355 in their early years. This is good news for future SUNY Poly graduates since it is 31% more than the average college graduate's salary of $49,219 per year.

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Location of SUNY Polytechnic Institute

New York State
1,903 Full-Time Undergraduates
Suburb Campus Setting
SUNY Polytechnic Institute is a public institution located in Utica, New York. Utica is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

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Contact details for SUNY Poly are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 100 Seymour Rd, Utica, NY 13502
Phone: 315-792-7100
Website: www.sunypoly.edu/

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Majors

40 Majors With Completions
1,486 Undergraduate Degrees
1,486 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 40 majors graduated from SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Of these students, 1,486 received undergraduate degrees and 1,486 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Nursing 110 $80,210
Business Administration & Management 90 $41,684
Accounting 69 $41,610
Computer Information Systems 67 $61,721
Mechanical Engineering Technology 35 $62,681
Information Technology 33 $52,079
General Biology 32 $30,834
Industrial Production Technology 31 NA
Electronics Engineering Technology 29 $52,336
Mechanical Engineering 27 $60,249

Learn more about the majors offered at SUNY Polytechnic Institute along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at SUNY Poly

78% Take At Least One Class Online
35% Take All Classes Online

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, 2,228 students took at least one online class at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. This is a decrease from the 2,353 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2022-2023 2,228 1,004
2021-2022 2,353 1,049
2020-2021 2,943 1,962
2018-2019 1,320 593

Learn more about online learning at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

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Notes and References

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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