SUNY--Fredonia

SUNY—Fredonia is a public institution that was founded in 1826. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,217 (fall 2022), its setting is rural, and the campus size is 256 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. SUNY—Fredonia's ranking in the 2024 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities North, #69. Its in-state tuition and fees are $8,795; out-of-state tuition and fees are $18,705.

Fredonia, part of the State University of New York system, is located in the western part of the state, just a few miles from Lake Erie. Undergraduates at SUNY—Fredonia can choose from more than 100 academic majors, and graduate students can pursue about 15 master’s degree programs, including speech pathology and audiology. SUNY—Fredonia also has a Lifelong Learning program that offers credit and noncredit courses that range from Defensive Driving to the Real Estate Salespersons Certification course.

On campus, students at Fredonia State, as it is sometimes known, can get involved in more than 100 organizations, write for The Leader newspaper, and take a break at the coffeehouse in the Williams Center. Student athletes can play for the Fredonia Blue Devils, which compete in various conferences of the NCAA's Division III. There are many notable SUNY—Fredonia alumni, including Brian Frons, former president of daytime programming at ABC; James McGraw, founder of education publisher McGraw-Hill; and Mary McDonnell, an actress who starred in the movie "Dances with Wolves" and appeared in the television show "ER."