The University at Buffalo (UB) is New York State's premier public center for graduate and professional education. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, the University at Buffalo stands in the first rank among the nation's research-intensive public universities. Accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, UB offers approximately 115 master's degree programs and eighty-eight doctoral programs. Each year the university awards approximately 1,500 master's degrees, 300 doctoral degrees, and 500 first-professional doctoral degrees through its College of Arts and Sciences and twelve professional schools, and through the graduate division of Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The university was a private institution from 1846 until 1962; during that time, eleven of its twelve professional schools were founded. After merging with the State University of New York in 1962, the already mature University at Buffalo was a direct beneficiary of New York's aggressive investment in public higher education and grew in size and ambition at a remarkable pace. This private-public heritage has endowed the University at Buffalo with a special character: It has the organizational profile of an eastern private university on the scale of a large midwestern public university. Graduate study opportunities at the University at Buffalo are well suited to the flexibility that twenty-first-century careers, whether academic or professional, will require. Interactions among the university's professional schools and its arts and sciences faculty, especially in cross-disciplinary research centers, give graduate and professional education at the University at Buffalo a particular richness and depth. UB's professional schools share a unique research-intensive orientation with their counterpart faculty in the thirty departments of the College of Arts and Sciences. Together, these units have established an outstanding record of research, scholarship, and creative activity, much of which is interdisciplinary in nature. Grant and contract awards for sponsored research at the university during a fiscal year total approximately $252 million; sponsored research expenditures during a year are approximately $120 million. Among its more prominent organized research centers, the University at Buffalo houses the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research; the Center for Assistive Technology, which is the site of a national rehabilitation engineering center for the disabled; the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis; the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition; the Center for Advanced Molecular Biology and Immunology; and the new Center for Computational Research, which is one of the nation's top ten supercomputing centers. Altogether, the university supports cross-disciplinary research in more than forty organized research centers. An active center of international education, the University at Buffalo has academic exchange agreements with forty-one universities in twenty-four countries and ranks among the top twenty-five institutions in the United States in attracting international students. Nearly 2,000 international students from more than 100 countries attend UB each year; approximately 80 percent of these students are enrolled in graduate study. The university has two major campuses. The South Campus, located in the northeast corner of the City of Buffalo, was the main campus for most of the twentieth century and is now in the later stages of becoming UB's comprehensive health-sciences campus. The newer North Campus, located three miles from the South Campus on 1,200 acres in suburban Amherst, houses most of the university's non-health-sciences divisions. In keeping with the new millennium, UB has completed more than $200 million in building construction, including new research facilities for medicine and chemistry and a new mathematics building. Living at UB The University at Buffalo offers a variety of housing options for students who prefer to live close to the heart of where they study, conduct research, and attend class. Flickinger Court, Flint Village, South Lake Village, and beginning in fall 2002, an additional area of new graduate student apartments, provide incomparable campus housing for graduate and professional students. Flickinger Court is a modern, townhouse-style, village that borders UB's North Campus. This community of graduate students and students with families offers privacy, security and independence combined with the convenience of a University-operated facility. These 1,000-square-foot townhouses are equipped with amenities such as full kitchens, central air-conditioning, ample parking, shuttle service, cable, high-speed data connections, and a washer and dryer. Flint Village, which opened in fall 2001, houses graduate and professional students, as well as upper-division undergraduate students, in an unbeatable location adjacent to North Campus academic and student services buildings. South Lake Village offers four differently sized apartments to accommodate the needs of graduate and undergraduate students. While located conveniently to North Campus activities, South Lake Village has the added benefit of a beautiful setting by the lake. The "Apartment Living" section of the University Residence Halls and Apartments Website (http://www.ub-housing.buffalo.edu/aptliving.shtml) provides all the information students need to make a choice among these terrific options, including details about room dimensions, furnishings, rates, how to apply, and answers to other frequently answered questions. The Off-Campus Housing division of Sub-Board I (a not-for-profit student services corporation) assists University at Buffalo students who prefer to live off-campus with finding accommodations within the local community. Their services include computer-generated listings from a constantly updated database of available housing, on-site telephones for local calls, up-to-date bulletin boards of properties, local maps, and a knowledgeable staff. Visit http://www.subboard.com/ to learn more about their services. |
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