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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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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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
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.
| $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.
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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See which majors at SUNY Polytechnic Institute make the most money.
Get more details about the location of SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
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/ |
| 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 |
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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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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