Stony Brook University, widely regarded as a SUNY flagship, was established in 1957 as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers of mathematics and science. The first campus was located in Oyster Bay, Long Island, on the grounds of a former Gold Coast estate. Part of the State University of New York system, the University has grown tremendously and is now recognized as one of the nation’s important centers of learning and scholarship — carrying out the mandate given by the State Board of Regents in 1960 to become a university that would “stand with the finest in the country.

Stony Brook University offers the following areas of expertise.

• Anthropology
• Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Ecology and Evolution
• Geosciences
• History
• Marine and Atmospheric Sciences