University at Buffalo, The State University of New York - Administration and Organization

Administration and Organization

Buffalo is a public university and is one of four university centers of the 64 campuses in the State University of New York (SUNY) which enrolled 467,845 students and employed 33,455 faculty in 2011. SUNY is governed by a 17 member Board of Trustees, 15 of whom are appointed by the Governor of New York and the remaining two members being elected from the Student Assembly and University Faculty Senate. Carl McCall is the Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees and Nancy L. Zimpher is the Chancellor of the SUNY system. Satish K. Tripathi was appointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees as the 15th president of the University at Buffalo in April 2011 after previously serving a six-year tenure as the UB provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. He receives compensation of $385,000, $115,000, and $150,000 annually from each of the university, SUNY Research Foundation, and the UB Foundation respectively.

The University at Buffalo Foundation (UB Foundation) was chartered in 1962 as an independent non-profit corporation and is controlled by a privately-appointed board of trustees. It serves as a vehicle to raise private funds for the university, develop real estate, and manage endowment investments on behalf of the university. The foundation managed a $685.2 million endowment for FY2011.

UB is organized into 13 academic sub-divisions.

• The School of Architecture and Planning is the only architecture school in the SUNY system and offers the only accredited professional masters degree in architecture. The School of Architecture and Planning awarded 96 baccalaureate degrees and 69 master's degrees.
• The College of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1915 and is the largest and most comprehensive academic unit at UB with 25 academic departments, 12 academic programs, and 21 centers and institutes across the humanities, arts, and sciences.
• The School of Dental Medicine was founded in 1892 and offers accredited programs in DDS, oral surgery, and other oral sciences.
• The Graduate School of Education was founded in 1931 and is one of the largest graduate schools at UB. The school has four academic departments: counseling and educational psychology, educational leadership and policy, learning and instruction, and library and information science. In academic year 2008-2009, the Graduate School of Education awarded 472 master's degrees and 52 doctoral degrees.
• The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was founded in 1946 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in six departments. It is the largest public school of engineering in SUNY.
• The Law School was founded in 1887 and is the only law school in the SUNY system. The school awarded 265 JD degrees in the 2009-2010 academic year.
• The School of Management was founded in 1923 and offers AACSB-accredited undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral degrees.
• The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is the founding faculty of the UB and began in 1846. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the biomedical and biotechnical sciences as well as a MD program and residencies.
• The School of Nursing was founded in 1936 and offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in nursing practice and patient care.
• The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences was founded in 1886, making it the second-oldest faculty at UB and the only pharmacy school in the SUNY system.
• The School of Public Health and Health Professions was founded in 2003 from the merger of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and the UB School of Health Related Professions. The school offers a bachelor's degree in exercise science as well as professional, master's and PhD degrees.
• The School of Social Work offers graduate MSW and doctoral degrees in social work.
• The Roswell Park Cancer Institute Graduate Division was founded in 1898 by Roswell Park and is the oldest comprehensive cancer center in the world. It offers five PhD programs and a MS program in basic and translational biomedical research related to cancer.