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SUNY Potsdam Rated in Top 50 Master’s Universities in U.S. by Washington Monthly Magazine

Washington Monthly has ranked The State University of New York at Potsdam at No. 47 in the country in its national master’s universities ratings, in the magazine’s 2023 College Guide. Since the rankings were first created 18 years ago, SUNY Potsdam has continually climbed the list.

SUNY Potsdam Police Academy Sees Largest Cohort in Eight Years

The SUNY Potsdam Law Enforcement Training Institute is bursting at the seams as it prepares students for professions struggling to fill their vacancies. The police academy this fall welcomed its largest class in eight years, moved into new space on the Potsdam campus to accommodate the growth, and received a rare infusion of energy as retired law enforcement veterans entered the academy both to learn new skills and to share their decades of field experience with the cohort.

SUNY Potsdam Announces President’s & Dean’s Lists for Spring 2023

SUNY Potsdam honored 904 students who excelled academically in the Spring 2023 semester by naming them to the President’s List and Dean’s List.

SUNY Potsdam Celebrates Class of 2023 at Commencement

The State University of New York at Potsdam honored the Class of 2023 in the shadow of the Satterlee Hall clocktower, surrounded by thousands of guests, on Saturday, May 20. A short drizzle of rain prior to the ceremony didn’t deter the joyous graduates—or the proud families and friends there to celebrate them.

Robert & Beverly Washburn Rehearsal Room Dedicated, in Special Ceremony at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music

Excited chatter and the scattered sounds of scales gave way to lively tunes in the premier ensemble rehearsal room at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music on Friday, April 21. For the crowd gathered to honor two longtime members of the Crane community, Dr. Robert B. Washburn ’49 and Beverly Darnell Washburn ’63, the setting and the soundtrack couldn’t have been more appropriate.

SUNY Potsdam’s Newest Online Grad Program Helps Address Teacher Shortage in Middle/Secondary Science Education

SUNY Potsdam is adding to its growing list of virtual graduate programs, with a new 100 percent online option for the College’s longstanding Master of Science in Teaching (MST) degree in adolescence education: science, which leads to certification in Grades 7 to 12.

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