<p>I’m sorry but not trying to start a battle of who’s flagship or not but here it goes:</p>
<p>[Governor</a> Spitzer Sees Stony Brook University As ‘Flagship’ Institution in SUNY System](<a href=“http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Governor_Spitzer_Sees_Stony_Brook_University_As_Flagship_Institution_in_the_SUNY_System.shtml]Governor”>http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Governor_Spitzer_Sees_Stony_Brook_University_As_Flagship_Institution_in_the_SUNY_System.shtml)</p>
<p>[Shirley</a> Strum Kenny, Who Transformed Stony Brook University Into a Flagship Of SUNY And National Leader In Public Higher Education, Announces Retirement At End Of 2008-9 Academic Year](<a href=“http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Shirley_Strum_Kenny_Who_Transformed_Stony_Brook.shtml]Shirley”>http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Shirley_Strum_Kenny_Who_Transformed_Stony_Brook.shtml)</p>
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<p>Why is SB the flagship institution of SUNY unofficially?</p>
<p>*Provide 90% of revenue of the Patents to the SUNY system
*Is a member of the AAU - Association of American Universities - the top 62 research institutions of the United States in which University at Buffalo, not Binghamton, is also a member of.
- Is co-manager of the Brookhaven National Laboratory joining Princeton, Cornell, the University of Chicago, Stanford, and the University of California-Berkeley as the only major institutions involved in a research collaboration with a national lab.
- Has a student body of over 24, 000 students.
- Has the Stony Brook Medical Center, the state of the art medical Hospital for SUNY students, which Bingo lacks.</p>
<p>This is what makes Stony Brook University the flagship institution of the SUNY system.</p>
<p>Until later</p>