New York's premier academic medical center, training physicians and health professionals since 1834.
SUNY Upstate is an upper-division transfer and doctoral university specializing exclusively in health care careers. The Norton College of Medicine (renamed 2021) offers the MD degree and joint degrees (MD/MBA, MD/PhD, MD/MPH). The College of Graduate Studies awards PhD and MS degrees in biomedical research disciplines including biochemistry, neuroscience, and pharmacology. The College of Nursing offers BS, MS, Post-Masters Advanced Certificate, and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degrees. The College of Health Professions provides nine health care programs including physical therapy, physician assistant, and medical imaging sciences.
The main urban campus spans 99 acres in Syracuse's University Hill neighborhood, adjacent to Syracuse University and SUNY ESF. Key facilities include Upstate University Hospital (752-bed teaching hospital), Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital, Institute for Human Performance, Upstate Cancer Center, Clark Burn Center, and multiple clinical specialty centers. A clinical campus in Binghamton, established 1976, hosts approximately one-quarter of third-year medical students. The university operates over 400 clinical sites throughout Central New York and maintains affiliations with Syracuse VA Medical Center and Crouse Hospital.
As one of 140 US academic medical centers, Upstate University Health System serves over 1.8 million people annually. Research expenditures exceed $35 million, concentrated in five basic science departments with over 450 active clinical trials. The system includes the region's only Level I trauma and burn center, Level I pediatric trauma center (1 of 4 in New York), comprehensive stroke center, and designated AIDS center. Faculty physicians provide patient care, teaching, and research at University Hospital and affiliated institutions.
Tracing its roots to Geneva Medical College (1834), the institution became Syracuse University College of Medicine (1871) before joining SUNY in 1950. The college granted the first MD to a woman (Elizabeth Blackwell, 1849) and the first MD to an African-American woman in New York (Sarah Loguen Fraser, 1876). Over 8,000 SUNY Upstate alumni physicians are licensed in the US, generating $24.8 billion in economic activity and supporting or employing over 140,000 people.