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For the 11th time in US News & World Report’s 16 years of college rankings, SUNY Geneseo has earned the #1 spot for Best Undergraduate Teaching in the Regional Universities—North category.

Washington Monthly selected SUNY Geneseo as one of only 25 colleges and universities in the United States as a Best-in-Class College.

SUNY Geneseo is included in Princeton Review's book The Best 391 Colleges: 2026 Edition and is named to their "Best Regional Colleges: Northeast" list.

SUNY Geneseo’s efforts to support first-generation college students have earned national recognition from FirstGen Forward, which recently welcomed the College into its 2025–26 cohort.

The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society named SUNY Geneseo to its 2025 Transfer Honor Roll.

The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College for 2025.

SUNY Geneseo was named a 2025–26 Voter Friendly Campus (VFC), one of 272 campuses in 39 states and the District of Columbia by Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

SUNY Geneseo has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting.

The Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition includes SUNY Geneseo as one of its 511 featured “green colleges.”

For the 10th time in U.S. News & World Report’s 15 years of college rankings, SUNY Geneseo has again earned the #1 spot for 2025 Best Undergraduate Teaching in the “Regional Universities—North” category.

At the 47th Phi Beta Kappa Society's (PBK)Triennial Council Meeting in Baltimore this summer, SUNY Geneseo's chapter, Alpha Delta of New York, was honored with a Certificate of Recognition from the national organization.

SUNY Geneseo was recognized with a Bronze Seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for its students' nonpartisan democratic engagement.

SUNY Geneseo is included in Princeton Review's The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition and their "Best Regional Colleges: Northeast" list.

SUNY Geneseo earned first place in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings of nearly 600 master’s universities for contribution to the public good.

SUNY Geneseo has claimed the No. 5 spot of public colleges and universities in Fiske Guide to Colleges' top 20 Best Buy Colleges and Universities for 2025.

The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College for 2024.

The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society named SUNY Geneseo to its 2024 Transfer Honor Roll.

The Department of Physics & Astronomy at SUNY Geneseo was recently awarded a letter of commendation from the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for its "outstanding contributions to the education of future physics teachers."

SUNY Geneseo received the 2024 Highly Established Action Plan Seal from ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge.

SUNY Geneseo is ranked #5 out of 647 institutions in the number of graduates who went to earn a research doctorate degree between 2013 and 2022.

SUNY Geneseo has again been named one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review.

SUNY Geneseo is among the top selective colleges in the nation for serving students from low-income backgrounds, according to a list recently published in The New York Times Magazine.

SUNY Geneseo is in the top ten for undergraduate teaching, innovation, and top public schools. 

SUNY Geneseo earned first place in Washington Monthly’s annual college rankings of more than 604 master’s universities for contribution to the public good.

SUNY Geneseo is included in The Princeton Review's 2024 The Best 389 Colleges and in its "Best Regional Colleges: Northeast."