State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly known as University at Buffalo (UB) is a public research university, established in the year 1846 as a private medical school to train the doctors for the communities of Buffalo.

The university has multiple campuses located in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, USA. UB offers 84 bachelors, 184 masters and 78 doctoral degrees, and it is the largest of the four comprehensive university centers within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. From its inception until 1962, the private school was known as the University of Buffalo. Once it became a state university, the name was changed, but many Alumni still refer to it by the former name.

University of Buffalo was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1989. UB's alumni and faculty have produced a President of the United States, astronauts, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other notable individuals in their fields. The University houses the largest state-operated medical school and features the only state law school, architecture and urban planning school, and pharmacy school in the state of New York.

University Campuses:
The University at Buffalo is the state’s largest and most comprehensive public university and is spread across three campuses:

• North Campus,
• South Campus,
• Downtown Campus, and
• Teaching hospitals

Elegant Cultures of the University:
The first season of the MTV show Fraternity Life and the second season of Sorority Life were filmed at UB. Also, the NBC show Jesse starring Christina Applegate took place in Buffalo, and external shots for the show were filmed at South Campus.

University Conveniences:

Libraries:
In all the three campuses there totally nine libraries, amplified with more than 3.6 millions of books, volumes through wide-range of digital resources such as, electronic journals, databases and also world’s largest collection of James Joyce manuscripts and artifacts.

University Nomenclature:
Ever since, the evolution of the State University of New York at Buffalo formed in 1998, there are three names considered for the university. In addition to that there is another fourth name acceptable for reference to athletic programs:

1. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York - This is the full name, used by the university for formal communications to national audiences.
2. University at Buffalo - This is the less formal name, used within the university, and with many outside groups that are familiar with the University at Buffalo.
3. UB – It is the acronym for the term University of Buffalo, which is the preferred casual term to refer to school.
4. Buffalo - It is the standard name for the athletic department of the university.

Entry Requirements:
As an international student, you have to reveal your English proficiency skills with either of the following standardized tests with indicated minimum test scores. Many programs require taking either or the combination of standardized admission tests such as, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS varying depending on the chosen program. Every student has to meet the entry requirements of the university, as per the following indications:

Minimum English Proficiency(University Level)

• TOEFL (iBT) – 79
• IELTS (with no subsection score below 6.0) - 6.5

For certain study programs, university accepts Conditional Admission based on slightly lower scores, but Conditional Admissions are not valid for many programs.