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SUNY Oswego moved up in the most recent “public good” rankings from Washington Monthly that measure higher education’s contributions to bettering the world through service, research and improving the lives of its graduates.

SUNY Oswego sophomore public relations major Tatienna Samuels is one of nine inaugural students taking part in a new SUNY Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) career development fellowship.

SUNY Oswego recently celebrated the successful startup of its Advancing Completion through Engagement (ACE) program, a transformative four-year model that has been widely demonstrated to increase student completion rates and narrow opportunity gaps.

SUNY Oswego climbed to #37 from #39 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “2025 Best Regional Universities in the North” and earned the #9 spot in the North for social mobility, according to the publication released on September 26, 2024.

The renovations of iconic Hewitt Hall, with an expected completion date of August 2025, will bring to life the values of SUNY Oswego’s School of Communication, Media and the Arts: innovation, inspiration and interdisciplinary collaboration. This $80 million project converts the historic former student union into a state-of-the-art media and visual arts center, creating an “arts corridor” between Tyler and Hewitt halls.

An ongoing commitment to contribute to the common good and to student success helped SUNY Oswego continue on the Washington Monthly list of top Master’s Universities for its advancement of quality academics and the public good.

Students from the SUNY Oswego Technology Student Association continued their run of success in conference competitions, earning three second-place finishes and one fourth-place nod at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference in Memphis in March.

With the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being in the path of totality for a total solar eclipse on April 8, SUNY Oswego will host student research, viewing opportunities, planetarium shows, children’s activities, lectures from experts and more on its lakeside campus.

On Feb. 2, 2024, SUNY Oswego's student-run TV station, WTOP, made history with a broadcast team of all women.