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Choose excellent classroom instruction. Affordable SUNY tuition. A Long Island campus close to New York City. Career-igniting undergraduate programs. A commitment to tackling the social and environmental injustices of today’s world.
Majors Right For You.
The goal at SUNY Old Westbury is to prepare you to achieve your potential and to create the career – and life – you imagine.
Popular among the more than 40 majors on campus include:
- Accounting
- Education
- Biology
- Computer Information Sciences
- Psychology
- Media & Communications
You can team up with a professor and conduct research topical to your interests. Enroll in a Study Abroad program and experience more of the world around you. And, if your major is undecided, we have skilled advisers and career counselors to assist you in making the best decision for you.
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Small Classes, Excellent Faculty.
SUNY Old Westbury is a small college. But we’ve got big talent. Here, you will learn face to face from a diverse, internationally acclaimed faculty. And when we say face to face, we mean it with an average class size of 23 students.
The Old Westbury faculty is made up of instructors who are recognized experts in their fields. Just as importantly, they become experts in you – teachers interested in conveying their knowledge and in what kind of person you become.

A Transformational Student Experience.
Our goal is to extend learning beyond the classroom by emphasizing leadership education, applied learning and internships, critical thinking, student involvement, residential and commuter student life, civic engagement, and more.
We are committed to offering programming and services that support cultural competency and community-building as part of our promise to foster engaged students prepared for a life of active involvement as we together seek a more just and sustainable world.

A Place for Critical Conversations.
Old Westbury students learn as part of a student body of more than 4,000 men and women that not only reflects the demographics and diversity of the surrounding region but also makes space for critically important conversations between and within groups.
With the most diverse student body in the SUNY system, SUNY Old Westbury offers a timely education that allows students to learn about what it means to be active in a community that is committed to social and environmental justice. As a result, they discover themselves in new ways, while understanding our complex world, and imagining themselves as game changers for justice and sustainability.