Campus Facts
UB General Trivia
Student Stats
Life on Campus
Academic Life
100
About this many students reside in on-campus housing.
What is 7,500?
100
Founded in 1862, UB merged with the SUNY system in this year.
What is 1962?
100
The average incoming student from Fall 2012 scored a combined 24-29 on this test.
What is the ACT?
100
This event series has brought visitors such as Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, the Dalai Lama, and Toni Morrison to campus.
What is the Distinguished Speakers Series?
100
The percentage of classes with fewer than 50 students.
What is 75%?
200
This campus houses the College of Arts & Sciences and the Schools of (Graduate) Education, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Law, Management, and Social Work.
What is North Campus?
200
Rounding up to the nearest thousand, UB enrolled approximately this many students in Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional programs in 2011.
What is 29,000?
200
In 2012, this percentage of students enrolled from outside New York state.
What is 15%?
200
More than 180 clubs as well as galas, movies, and concerts are organized by this entity.
What is the Undergraduate Student Association?
200
With a 16:1 student to faculty ratio, this is UB's average class size.
What is 34?
300
This campus houses the Schools of Architecture & Planning, Dental Medicine, Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Public Health & Health Professions.
What is South Campus?
300
UB awards this amount of financial aid annually.
What is $140 million?
300
At five times the national average, 11% of students will do this during their time at UB.
What is study abroad?
300
Civic Engagement and Research Exploration are two of these living/learning programs at UB.
What are Undergraduate Academies?
300
Students who cannot find their niche in UB's major/minor offerings may wish to pursue this option.
What is a special major?
400
This campus includes sites such as the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, UB Center for Clinical and Translational Research, UB Biosciences Incubator, Educational Opportunity Center, Research Institute on Addictions, Ira G. Ross Institute and Jacobs Executive Development Center.
What is Downtown Campus?
400
UB spends $350 million on this annually.
What is research?
400
Among 2,700 universities, UB ranks 17th in this aspect.
What is international student enrollment?
400
First seen in 1997, this is the official name of UB's blue bull mascot.
What is Victor E. Bull?
400
Including combined degrees, the College of Arts and Sciences has this many undergraduate degree programs.
What is 51?
500
UB has at least six of these, which aim to connect academics, life on campus, and extracurricular interests.
What are learning communities?
500
Awarded the highest rank in the SUNY system, UB has 36 of these.
What are SUNY Distinguished Professors?
500
The middle 50% of incoming students in Fall 2012 had this high school GPA range.
What is 3.3 - 4.0?
500
Presented by the University Student Alumni Board, this mud volleyball tournament occurs every April.
What is Oozefest?
500
Focusing on unique classes like The Science of Sweat Socks and Modern Plagues and Pestilence, these small classes are targeted at freshmen and sophomores.
What are Discovery Seminars?
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