The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, educating nearly 450,000 students in more than 7,000 degree and certificate programs on 64 colleges and universities located within 30 miles of every home, school and business in New York State, and online. There are 3 million SUNY alumni worldwide and one in three New Yorkers with a college degree is a SUNY alum.