The State University of New York at Stony Brook (commonly referred to as Stony Brook University, SUNY Stony Brook, or SBU) is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York in the United States. It is the youngest among university centers of the state, and has grown to be a flagship institution of New York,[3][4] consistently being ranked as the top public university in New York by multiple publications.[5] [6][7] The university is one of the 62 research universities that comprise the Association of American Universities (AAU), an invitation-only organization of leading research universities in North America. It is also a member of the larger Universities Research Association[8] for which Samuel L. Stanley[9] is council president. It has been ranked among the top thirty-five public research universities in the United States,[10] and among the top 1% of universities in the world.[11] Stony Brook has additional smaller campuses in Manhattan and Southampton.
The university was founded in 1957 in Oyster Bay as State University College on Long Island. What would become the university moved to Stony Brook in 1962.[12] Since its establishment in Stony Brook, the university has expanded to include more than 200 major buildings with a combined area of more than 11 million gross square feet[13] across 1,454 acres of land.
The university owns the Stony Brook University Medical Center, co-manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and in 2005 acquired land for a Research & Development Park adjacent to its main campus, and has four business incubators across the region. The university has a regional economic impact of over $4.6 billion annually accounting for nearly 4% of