Fast Facts

SUNY Oswego enrolls around 8,300 students, some 6,800 of them full-time undergraduates. About 4,300 students live on campus among the college's 13 residence halls. Overall, Oswego's lakeside campus stretches for almost 700 acres and includes 46 buildings.

Around 1,400 freshmen, with a mean high school grade average of 90 and average SAT of 1110, enrolled in fall 2010. Nearly 200 Presidential Scholars with a mean high-school grade average of 94.5 and SAT of 1235 received this full-tuition award; 530 more first-year students received Deans', Merit, Residential or Transfer Merit Scholarships. And 785 transfer students, with an average GPA of 3.0, chose Oswego as the place to pursue their bachelor's degrees.

Overall, SUNY Oswego provides more than $2.5 million in merit-based scholarships. Additional annual funding of more than $66 million in need-based grants, loans and work-study awards also support student attendance at Oswego.

Oswego is one of 13 university colleges in the 64-campus SUNY system. As a comprehensive college, Oswego offers more than 110 majors, minors, cooperative and graduate programs.

Degrees awarded:
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Science
Master of Arts
Master of Arts in Teaching
Master of Business Administration
Master of Science in Education
Master of Science
Certificate of Advanced Study

Employees:
— 1,195 full-time faculty and staff
— 631 part-time faculty and staff
— 2,204 part-time student employees
— 1,760 full-time equivalent employees

Economic impact:
— $179.4 million total economic impact for Oswego County
— $345 million total economic impact to the immediate seven-county region