State University of New York at Buffalo Academic Experience

Past Performance

• 85% of our freshmen returned for sophomore year.
• 29% of our most recent graduates graduated in four years.
• How long does it usually take to graduate from freshman year?
  • On average, 29% of our freshman graduate in four years.
  • On average, 22% of our freshman graduate in five years.

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

• business administration
• social science/interdisciplinary
• psychology

Policies

Probation Policy

The minimum GPA required for all students to remain off probation during their entire college tenure is:

• Freshmen: 2.00
• Sophomore: 2.00
• Junior: 2.00
• Senior: 2.00

Academic Calendar for 2002-03.

Academic Calendar System:

• Semester System (two terms comprise academic year)

Summer Sessions:

• Three summer sessions, one of 12 weeks and two of six weeks each.

New student orientation:

• Orientation for new students is held in June, July, and August.

• 16% continue immediately.

• American Management Systems, Anderson Consulting, CVS, Electronic Data Systems, General Electric, Occidental Chemical, Proctor & Gamble.

• Ellen Shulman Baker, astronaut and NASA mission specialist; Thomas G. Toles, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist; Wolf I. Blitzer, CNN Pentagon correspondent; Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of pacemaker; Jerome Kassirer, editor, New England Journal of MedicineFO; Linda J. Wacher, president, WARNACO.