COMMUNITY COLLEGES WITH DORMS IN NY

When students go away for college, the dorms become their new home.

Housing for students are no longer just a tiny box with white cinderblock walls. College campuses now provide amenities such as private bathrooms, swanky common areas with a cafe or top-notch workout facilities.

Here are the 25 best college dorms in New York state, according to the latest ranking from Niche, a company that researches and compiles information on schools.

The methodology includes student surveys on the quality of campus housing, average housing cost, housing capacity, and student-housing crime rates.

#25 Mount Saint Mary College (Newburgh)

Enrollment: 1,750

Tuition: $28,890

Housing cost: $8,416

Acceptance rate: 90 percent

#24 Vassar College (Poughkeepsie)

Enrollment: 2,405

Tuition: $55,210

Housing cost: $6,730

Acceptance rate: 27 percent

#23 Nyack College (Nyack)

Enrollment: 1,179

Tuition: $25,350

Housing cost: $9,450

Acceptance rate: 100 percent

#22 SUNY Oswego (Oswego)

Enrollment: 6,868

Tuition: $8,191 (in-state), $17,841 (out-of-state)

Housing cost: $8,590

Acceptance rate: 55 percent

#21 Canisius College (Buffalo)

Enrollment: 2,474

Tuition: $36,454

Housing cost: $7,764

Acceptance rate: 78 percent

#20 SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam)

Enrollment: 3,321

Tuition: $6,670 (in-state), $16,320 (out-of-state)

Housing cost: $7,360

Acceptance rate: 72 percent

#19 St. Lawrence University (Canton)

Enrollment: 2,345

Tuition: $52,990

Housing cost: $7,356

Acceptance rate: 43 percent

#18 Nazareth College (Rochester)

Enrollment: 2,045

Tuition: $33,549

Housing cost: $7,470

Acceptance rate: 72 percent

#17 Pace University (New York)

Enrollment: 7,691

Tuition: $43,986

Housing cost: $19,053

Acceptance rate: 84 percent

#16 The College of St. Rose (Albany)

Enrollment: 2,510

Tuition: $31,612

Housing cost: $6,214

Acceptance rate: 84 percent

#15 New York University (New York)

Enrollment: 24,888

Tuition: $50,464

Housing cost: $12,814

Acceptance rate: 32 percent

#14 Medaille College (Buffalo)

Enrollment: 1,194

Tuition: $28,360

Housing cost: $13,500

Acceptance rate: 69 percent

#13 Paul Smith’s College (Paul Smiths)

Enrollment: 844

Tuition: $27,590

Housing cost: $8,000

Acceptance rate: 82 percent

#12 Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (Albany)

Enrollment: 895

Tuition: $32,840

Housing cost: $6,800

Acceptance rate: 69 percent

#11 Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs)

Enrollment: 2,643

Tuition: $52,596

Housing cost: $8,278

Acceptance rate: 29 percent

#10 Hilbert College (Hamburg)

Enrollment: 740

Tuition: $21,800

Housing cost: $4,850

Acceptance rate: 81 percent

#9 The King’s College (New York)

Enrollment: 520

Tuition: $35,400

Housing cost: $13,950

Acceptance rate: 41 percent

#8 Binghamton University, SUNY (Vestal)

Enrollment: 13,185

Tuition: $9,523 (in-state), $24,403 (out-of-state)

Housing cost: $9,567

Acceptance rate: 41 percent

#7 Yeshiva University (New York)

Enrollment: 2,628

Tuition: $42,000

Housing cost: $8,300

Acceptance rate: 51 percent

#6 Marist College (Poughkeepsie)

Enrollment: 4,966

Tuition: $36,780

Housing cost: $9,600

Acceptance rate: 41 percent

#5 Columbia University (New York)

Enrollment: 7,552

Tuition: $57,208

Housing cost: $8,166

Acceptance rate: 7 percent

#4 Hamilton College (Clinton)

Enrollment: 1,868

Tuition: $54,080

Housing cost: $7,320

Acceptance rate: 26 percent

#3 Houghton College (Houghton)

Enrollment: 998

Tuition:  $31,972

Housing cost: $4,838

Acceptance rate: 79 percent

File photo of Centennial Hall dorm at SUNY ESF. (David Lassman | The Post-Standard)

#2 SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (Syracuse)

Enrollment:  1,711

Tuition: $8,543 (in-state), $18,193 (out-of-state)

Housing cost: $8,300

Acceptance rate: 54 percent

#1 St. John Fisher College (Rochester)

Enrollment: 2,601

Tuition: $33,120

Housing cost: $7,780

Acceptance rate: 65 percent

32 New York colleges with the best dorms

Updated May 21, 2019; Posted Aug 05, 2016By Michelle Breidenbach | [email protected]0shares

32: Cornell University

Ithaca, NYStudent Surveys on Campus Housing:  3.6 out of 5 – 156 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,680Housing Capacity: 52%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

31: SUNY Geneseo

Geneseo, NYStudent Surveys: 3.6 out of 5 – 63 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,518Housing Capacity: 60%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

30: Adelphi University

Garden City, NYStudent Surveys: 3.6 out of 5 – 97 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,620Housing Capacity: 29%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

29: Daemen College

Amherst, NYStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 26 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,800Housing Capacity: 38%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

28: St. Lawrence University

Canton, NYStudent Surveys: 3.6 out of 5 – 34 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,286Housing Capacity: 99%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

27: SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome

Utica, NYStudent Surveys: 3.6 out of 5 – 20 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,250Housing Capacity: 57%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

26: The Sage Colleges

Troy, NYStudent Surveys: 3.7 out of 5 – 32 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,830Housing Capacity: 59%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

25: Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Brooklyn, NYStudent Surveys:  3.6 out of 5 – 38 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,500Housing Capacity: 30%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

Photo by David Lassman

24: Syracuse University

Syracuse, NYStudent Surveys: 3.7 out of 5 – 264 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $14,460Housing Capacity: 58%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

23: SUNY Cortland

Cortland, NYStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 65 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,040Housing Capacity: 53%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

22: St. John Fisher College

Rochester, NYStudent Surveys: 3.7 out of 5 – 38 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,158Housing Capacity: 52%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

21: Colgate University

Hamiilton, NYStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 87 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,970Housing Capacity: 94%Student Housing Crime Rate: 1 per 1000

20: Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Albany, NYStudent Surveys: 3.5 out of 5 – 17 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $10,200Housing Capacity: 71%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

19: Mount Saint Mary College – New York

Newburgh, NYStudent Surveys on Campus Housing:  3.8 out of 5 – 41 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,556Housing Capacity: 69%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

18: New York University

New York, New YorkStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 355 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $16,486Housing Capacity: 59%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

17: Union College – New York

Schenectady, NYStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 55 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,856Housing Capacity: 87 %Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

16: St. Bonaventure University

Saint Bonaventure, NYStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 25 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,086Housing Capacity: 92%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

15: Vassar College

Poughkeepsie, NYStudent Surveys:  3.8 out of 5 – 48 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,570Housing Capacity: 98%Student Housing Crime Rate: 1 per 1000

14: Nazareth College

Rochester, NYStudent Surveys:  3.7 out of 5 – 50 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,466Housing Capacity: 65%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

13: Barnard College

New York, New YorkStudent Surveys:  3.8 out of 5 – 28 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $14,660Housing Capacity: 92%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

Photo by Stephen D. Cannerelli

12: SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry

Syracuse, NYStudent Surveys:  3.9 out of 5 – 19 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $15,120Housing Capacity: 33%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

11: SUNY College at Oneonta

Oneonta, NYStudent Surveys:  3.8 out of 5 – 71 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,530Housing Capacity: 63%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

10: Roberts Wesleyan College

Rochester, NYStudent Surveys: 3.7 out of 5 – 31 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $9,840Housing Capacity: 61 %Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

9: Niagara University

Niagara UniversityStudent Surveys:  3.8 out of 5 – 27 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $11,950Housing Capacity: 54%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

8: Houghton College

Houghton, NYStudent Surveys: 3.8 out of 5 – 36 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $8,252Housing Capacity: 100 %Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

7: Skidmore College

Saratoga Springs, NYStudent Surveys:  3.9 out of 5 – 64 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,628Housing Capacity: 81%Student Housing Crime Rate: 1 per 1000

6: Canisius College

Buffalo, NYStudent Surveys:  3.9 out of 5 – 73 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,516Housing Capacity: 46%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

5: Binghamton University, SUNY

Vestal, NYStudent Surveys:  3.9 out of 5 – 194 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,028Housing Capacity: 59%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

4: Marist College

Poughkeepsie, NYStudent Surveys:  4.0 out of 5 – 69 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,600Housing Capacity: 62%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

Photo by David Lassman

3: Hamilton College

Clinton, NYStudent Surveys: 4.0 out of 5 – 27 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $12,150Housing Capacity: 98%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

2: Hilbert College

Hamburg, NYStudent Surveys:  4.1 out of 5 – 18 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $8,890Housing Capacity: 34%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

1: Molloy College

Rockville Centre, NYStudent Surveys:  4.1 out of 5 – 37 respondentsAverage Housing Cost: $13,590Housing Capacity: 10%Student Housing Crime Rate: 0 per 1000

About the data:

The website Niche ranked college dorms based on the following criteria:

  • Student surveys: 70 percent
  • Average housing cost: 10 percent
  • Housing capacity: 10 percent
  • Student housing crime rates: 10 percent

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