<p>There are State Universities and State Colleges in NYS - the only Universities are Buffalo, New Paltz, Stony Brook, and Binghamton. All the other schools in the SUNY system are colleges and most are much smaller - Geneseo, Fredonia, Plattsburgh, Purchase, etc. As others have stated, CUNY schools are affiliated with the city of New York, they most are 4 year schools (Queens College, City College, what happy1 mentioned). Then there are the community colleges (also part of the CUNY system) Kingsborough, Queensborough, etc.</p>
<p>Do some research it will help.</p>