Stony Brook Vs. Binghamton

lostaccount
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 05:51:18 +0000

I can’t weigh in on the weekend action either. Neither school would be described as having an electrified climate on weekends. I just looked at various ratings. Binghamton used to have a strong reputation as a smaller school with excellent humanities. The English Dept was outstanding and overall ratings for Binghamton were higher than other SUNYs. But that has changed over the past decade thanks to a university president who was beyond awful.While she was president resources went into sports not academics. She increased the number of students but not the number of instructors or available resources to handle the increase. For a long time the school rode on its rep from 15 years ago. That has changed. The changes have impacted on the reputation and I anticipate they will impact even more for several year until the ratings are based on what the school is doing now instead of based on its Harpur College days. Overall ratings on US News are identical for the two schools. But the fact that Binghamton still has a halo effect from Harpur is evident when you look at departments. As has always been true, Stony Brook out performs Binghamton markedly in each STEM area. But what is stunning is the change in in the humanities and social sciences. Stony leads there too now. And, while English is rated higher in Binghamton, not by much. This is a stunning reversal. And a predictable outcome of nearly 2 decades of increasing the number of students while pouring resources into sports. Defleur really took the school to a nose dive. How’s the basketball team doing lois?