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SUNY Canton: Opportunity, Excellence, Success
The Student Body:
- Approximately 3000 students attend SUNY Canton
- Gender is split evenly
- The average age of students is 20
- The average number of students in each class is 22
SUNY Canton: An Education that Leads to a Career
The State University of New York at Canton is a public, coeducational, residential college located on a spacious campus along the banks of the Grasse River. There are miles of beautiful trails circling the campus, with wonderful scenic landscapes. Its northern location places SUNY Canton close to the Adirondack Mountains, the St. Lawrence River, and major cities including Ottawa and Montreal.
SUNY Canton is a vibrant community of people learning and growing together. The College has a continuing record of excellence in providing a career-driven educational experience.
Academics
SUNY Canton is Northern New York's four and two-year college for technology, health, management and public service. SUNY Canton offers nearly 20 majors leading to bachelor's degrees, more than 20 programs leading to associate degrees, and several programs leading to one-year certificates.
The College’s highly-qualified faculty members are renowned for their professional hands-on approach to education. Most have on-the-job professional experience, are licensed in their fields, and are current practitioners in their professions who have both outstanding academic credentials and sound technical experience.
Many of SUNY Canton’s majors are available in class, online, or both. The College’s online branch, SUNY Canton OL, offers more than 100 courses each semester. Students can learn in a flexible and convenient self-paced environment while taking courses that will lead to a career.
SUNY Canton joins with other colleges and universities to provide for other opportunities in fields such as business administration, forestry and medicine. Graduates of two-year programs may stay and continue in a bachelor's degree programs, transfer to another institution, or begin their careers immediately. The college even offers an MBA program with SUNYIT so students can get their master’s without leaving the area.
Tutoring services were rated #1 among similar institutions in a student survey and are offered free of charge, and can help students to increase their success regardless of their individual skill levels or backgrounds.
Within six months of graduation, more than 90 percent of each graduating class enter productive careers or continue their education after graduation.
Campus Environment
Academic facilities include eight academic buildings, containing numerous specialized labs and computerized “Smart Classrooms” for practice in nearly every discipline. Students have hands-on opportunities to work with large and small animals in the Veterinary Science Technology labs, investigate crimes in the Criminal Investigation wing, and create videos, art, and digital images in the Graphic and Multimedia Design labs.
The Southworth Library, is a hub of arts and technology at the College. The library houses more than 65,000 volumes, open computer labs, 300 periodical subscriptions, and 1,500 video and audio recordings, as well as access to more than 25 electronic information research databases, and the college’s archives. The Information Services department is also located in the library and provides technical support and laptop loans for mobile computing.
All students receive an e-mail account and can access the Internet in the computer labs or via network access in wireless hotspots around campus.
The College’s four residence halls house 850 students in single rooms, doubles, and suites. Special theme floors allow students to select living and learning options best suited to their interests. There's even a residence hall that allows small pets. Chaney Dining Center provides meals for residential students, and various themed eateries located around the campus make it easy to grab a quick bite to eat.
The college provides a fitness center located at the back of Chaney Dining Center. There is also a recreational gymnasium, a synthetic turf soccer field, tennis courts, an outdoor volleyball court, and other recreation areas. SUNY Canton’s sports teams compete in the NAIA Sunrise Conference and include men's and women's basketball, cross country, and soccer; men's ice hockey, and baseball; and women's softball, and volleyball. Students with the appropriate eligibility can play for their entire four years at the college.
There are also numerous sporting club-level options including men’s lacrosse, men’s ice hockey, and indoor soccer.
There are numerous student clubs, and the Miller Campus Center serves as the focal point for a wide range of cultural and recreational activities. Since the campus is located in a residential community that welcomes college and community interaction, students find that SUNY Canton provides a fine blend of college learning and fun.
Accreditations and Affiliations
SUNY Canton is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which is an institutional agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Individual programs at the College carry other accreditations, including the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, The American Veterinary medicine Association, The National League of Nursing, Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, The American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation.
SUNY Canton is a member of the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, a four-college consortium that also includes Clarkson University, the SUNY Potsdam and St. Lawrence University. The Associated Colleges, with nearly 12,500 students in two villages 11 miles apart, expands opportunities through such activities as cross-registration for courses at the other three campuses, coordination of social events, and library privileges at all four college libraries.
