Executive Summary

Enrollment – Fall 2022

• Total census enrollment is 6,445, a decrease of 728 students (10.1%) from the previous fall

semester.

• Total undergraduate enrollment is 5,464. This is a decrease of 683 students (11.1%) from fall

2021. Full-time undergraduate enrollment is 4,861 a decrease of 523 students (9.7%).

• Total enrollment in the residence halls is 1,683. This is a decrease of 50 students (2.9%) from

fall 2021. Since fall 2018, residence hall occupancy has decreased by 28.9 percent.

Demographics – Fall 2022

• Ninety-six (96.0) percent of our total enrollment is from New York State. Fifty-four (54.0)

percent is from Erie County; seven (7.2) percent is from Niagara County; twenty-three (22.9)

percent is from the Metro NYC area, and twelve (11.9) percent is from other New York State

Counties.

• Fifty-two (51.8) percent of the college’s undergraduate enrollments are minority students.

percent of our undergraduates and seventy-four (73.9) percent of graduate student population

are women. This is a decrease of 0.4 percentage points for our graduate student population

from the previous fall.

New Students – Fall 2022

• New freshman enrollment is 1,276. This is a decrease of 89 students (6.5%) from fall 2021.

• New transfer enrollment is 435, a decrease of 52 students (10.7%) from fall 2021.

• New graduate enrollment is 306. This is an increase of 35 students (12.9%) from fall 2021.

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Academic Profile, First-time Full-time – Fall 2022

• The mean high school average for all first-time, full-time students increased to 84.0 from 83.4

last fall. The mean SAT Composite (verbal and math) score for all first-time, full-time

students increased to 1062 from 1052. For Fall 2021 and Fall 2022, SUNY has directed

campuses to be test-optional due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For fall 2022, only 13% of the

First-time, Full-time matriculated students submitted standardized test scores. This resulted in

a larger than expected increase in SAT Composite scores in fall 2021 and fall 2022.

• The mean high school average for honors students increased 0.6 points is 94.6. The mean

SAT score for honors students is 1160.

FTE – Fall 2022

• Total FTE is estimated at 5,568. This is a decrease of 619 FTE (10.0%) from fall 2021.

• Total undergraduate FTE is estimated at 4,979. This is a decrease of 605 FTE (10.8%) from

fall 2021.

• Total graduate FTE is estimated 589, down 14 FTE (2.3%) from the previous fall.

School of Arts and Sciences – Fall 2022

sixteen (16.1) percent of the total college enrollment and ten (10.1) percent of the

undergraduate population. The School of Education’s graduate enrollment of 483 represents

forty-nine (49.2) percent of the graduate population and is the largest of the four graduate

schools.

School of the Professions – Fall 2022

• Total enrollment is 2,388, a decrease of 212 students (8.2%) from fall 2021. The school

represents thirty-seven (37.1) percent of the college’s total enrollment and forty (40.1)

percent of the total undergraduate enrollment. The school represents twenty (20.2) percent of

the graduate enrollment.

First-Time, full-time, One-Year Retention Rate at Buffalo State (fall 2021 Cohort)

• The first-time, full-time retention rate is forty-nine (49.3) percent, one (1.0) percentage point

higher than last fall. First-year retention rate increased to fifty-three (52.6) percent from forty-

seven (47.0) percent for the School of Arts & Sciences. First-year retention decreased for

School of Education and School of the Professions from the previous fall. The School of

Education first-year retention was the highest among the three schools at 59.5% and the

School of the Professions was the lowest at 45.7%.

• First-year retention rate for residential students increased from forty-three (42.7) percent to

forty-five (44.5) percent. First-year retention rate for commuter students increased from fifty-

2020 cohort. Muriel A. Howard Honors program (MAH) has the highest retention rate among

all cohorts for fall 2021.

• First-year retention rate for Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students decreased to

forty (39.7) percent from fifty-one (50.5) percent when compared to the fall 2020 cohort.

• First-year retention rate for female students (51.7%) is higher than the first-year rate for male

students (46.6%). Male student first-year rate decreased by 1.9 percentage points from fall

2021. Since fall 2017, our female retention rate has decreased 12.2 percentage points from

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