Sunny Morrisville

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Located in scenic Central New York, SUNY Morrisville is a model of innovative applied education—a place where students begin crafting exciting careers through real-world experiences.

Morrisville's 3,000 students, who hail from diverse backgrounds across the state and around the globe, choose from more than 75 associate and bachelor's degree programs that embrace agriculture, technology, business, social sciences and the liberal arts. Among them are strong programs in specialized areas such as renewable energy and resources, aquaculture, automotive technology, equine science, dairy management, nursing, wood technology, resort and recreation management, and information technology.

The Norwich campus, located 30 miles south of Morrisville, also offers associate degree programs. The campus currently serves approximately 600 commuter students enrolled in industrious career and technical areas as well as liberal arts transfer programs.

As home of the Mustangs, SUNY Morrisville boasts 17 intercollegiate athletics programs which compete at the NCAA Division III level. Established in 1908 as a college of agriculture, SUNY Morrisville became a founding member of the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1948.

SUNY Morrisville traces its beginnings to 1908 when it was chartered as the New York State School of Agriculture at Morrisville. It was founded as a progressive public coeducational institution in response to New York's unsafe food systems and spiraling prices in the face of widespread farm abandonment by families. Its mission was to be a true farmer's school, training persons directly for the practical operations of farming. In addition to specialized courses offered in the two program areas of agriculture and home economics, school founders established requirements so that graduates also would be educated broadly in the liberal arts and sciences and would be committed to sustaining both their family enterprises and their local communities.

For its first 80 years, Morrisville continued to offer two-year degrees while expanding to more than 50 academic programs, each offering specialized instruction aligned largely to meet the needs of a dynamic New York workforce for technicians and operatives. Beginning in the 1990s, in response to the rising demand for supervisory and entrepreneurial talent in New York's agriculture and technical sectors, Morrisville was authorized to offer bachelor's degrees.

While Morrisville has transitioned into a technologically advanced college with a rich diversity of both associate and bachelor's degree programs, its core mission has remained steadfast throughout its history: to educate and prepare graduates as future leaders in their specialized professions and their communities.

At SUNY Morrisville, our drive is unrelenting, our convictions are unwavering and our momentum is unstoppable. We are unyielding in our pursuit of the most realistic, practical and innovative approaches to hands-on education. If you believe hard work and determination are the path to success, we are ready to help you achieve your goals. So keep your head up and your eyes forward as you explore the adventure ahead of you, finding the perfect program where our faculty and staff can mentor you.

We know that paying for college is a big deal. We’re here to help! Here you’ll find what you need to know about tuition, fees, housing and meal costs, as well as great resources for meeting those expenses through scholarships and financial aid.

Students in the degree programs of residential construction, automotive, dairy, equine, wood products technology, restaurant management, diesel technology, travel and tourism, renewable resources, aquaculture and horticulture all realize important career-ready experiences from these enterprises. That list represents a subset only of the college's associate degree programs with these enterprise-based institutes.

For bachelor's degree programs, the commitment to applied learning continues with 95 percent of these graduates completing a full-semester internship requirement for their capstone academic experience. Together, these experiential learning opportunities offer diverse settings for students to create and innovate, design and build, cultivate and harvest, breed and rehabilitate, troubleshoot and repair, analyze and sustain, and diagnose and heal. It is no coincidence that many present-day learning outcomes can trace their origins to those adopted at Morrisville a century ago to promote sustainable farms and communities.

Classrooms, labs and other formal learning is the core of your college education, but there is so much more to the college experience. SUNY Morrisville will be your home for the next few years, and we know you want to see what it’s like to eat, sleep and live on campus. Here you’ll learn more about being a Mustang and the community of doers you’re about to join!

All incoming applications are evaluated for academic strength, and Mustang Merit Scholarships are offered to students based on the merits of past academic performance and, for incoming freshman, standardized test scores. To maximize scholarship opportunity, early applications are encouraged. Scholarship amounts are subject to change based on fund availability. To guarantee the awarded amount, students must comply with response requirements as outlined in the award and/or acceptance letters. Unless otherwise noted these scholarships do not cover the cost of college tuition and will be applied to non-tuition related expenses up to total cost of attendance.

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