Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Binghamton University, or Binghamton University, State University of New York, commonly referred to as BU, is a public research university in the U.S. state of New York. The university is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Since its establishment in 1946, the university has grown from a small liberal arts college, Harpur College, to a large doctoral-granting institution, presently consisting of six colleges and schools, and is now home to more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The legal and official name of the university is the State University of New York at Binghamton.Binghamton University is currently ranked 97th among the 281 national universities ranked in the 2014 U.S. News America's Best Colleges and Universities ranking and has been called a "Public Ivy". The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified the university as RU/H (Research Universities with high research activity). Binghamton University is famous for the quality of education given the affordable price. For many years, the university has been ranked top 10 best value public colleges. In 2013 President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting and delivered a speech on affordable college education in Binghamton University.Since the current university president Harvey Stenger took the office in 2012, the university has made several ambitious strategic moves, including drawing a Road Map to PREMIER which depicts a comprehensive plan for becoming the premier public university of the 21st century, proposing to establish a new School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy by 2017, and aim to increase the enrollment to 20,000 by 2020 (with 14,000 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students.)Although the university's mailing address is set in Binghamton, its main campus is actually located in the town Vestal, with a secondary education center located in downtown Binghamton. The Vestal campus is listed as a census-designated place for statistical purposes and had a residential population of 6,177 as of the 2010 census.. }
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- Binghamton_University abstract "Binghamton University, or Binghamton University, State University of New York, commonly referred to as BU, is a public research university in the U.S. state of New York. The university is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Since its establishment in 1946, the university has grown from a small liberal arts college, Harpur College, to a large doctoral-granting institution, presently consisting of six colleges and schools, and is now home to more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The legal and official name of the university is the State University of New York at Binghamton.Binghamton University is currently ranked 97th among the 281 national universities ranked in the 2014 U.S. News America's Best Colleges and Universities ranking and has been called a "Public Ivy". The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified the university as RU/H (Research Universities with high research activity). Binghamton University is famous for the quality of education given the affordable price. For many years, the university has been ranked top 10 best value public colleges. In 2013 President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting and delivered a speech on affordable college education in Binghamton University.Since the current university president Harvey Stenger took the office in 2012, the university has made several ambitious strategic moves, including drawing a Road Map to PREMIER which depicts a comprehensive plan for becoming the premier public university of the 21st century, proposing to establish a new School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy by 2017, and aim to increase the enrollment to 20,000 by 2020 (with 14,000 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students.)Although the university's mailing address is set in Binghamton, its main campus is actually located in the town Vestal, with a secondary education center located in downtown Binghamton. The Vestal campus is listed as a census-designated place for statistical purposes and had a residential population of 6,177 as of the 2010 census.".