Fast Facts

• Oneonta has a total enrollment of 5,878 full and part-time, undergraduate and graduate students!
• Oneonta maintains the Biological Field Station and Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies on Otsego Lake in nearby Cooperstown and the 284-acre College Camp about two miles from campus.
• Oneonta has fifteen residence halls; Higgins Hal, which opened in 2004, offers apartment-style living.
• The James M. Milne Library has the second largest collection among SUNY Colleges of Arts and Sciences containing over 550,000 volumes
• 97 percent of Oneonta students are from New York State; 60 percent are female and 40 percent male.
• Oneonta provides access to over 700 PC and Macintosh computers available in teaching labs, general purpose labs, specialized labs, and departmental facilities, including a computer lab open 24 hours per day in each residence hall.
• Oneonta has a strong athletic program. Women's teams include basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), and volleyball.  Men's teams include baseball, basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), and wrestling.
• Oneonta was established in 1889 as a state normal school with the sole mission of training teachers.
• Oneonta has 251 full time and 189 part time faculty; 80 percent of tenured/tenure-track faculty have earned doctorates or terminal degrees in their fields.
• 80 percent of Oneonta students receive financial assistance. Scholarships, grants, loans, and part-time employment are available for eligible students.
• Oneonta's 250-acre main campus has 30 instructional and support buildings, including a new state-of-the-art field house.
• The College at Oneonta was a founding member of the State University of New York system in 1948