legislature later changed the new college's name to the Geneseo Normal and Training School before it officially opened on September 13, 1871.
In 1962, the school adopted its current name, "State University of New York College at Geneseo". Just two years later, in 1964, the school began to offer four-year bachelor's degrees in subjects other than education.
== Academics ==
Geneseo is a public liberal arts college with 61 undergraduate majors, 5 master's programs, and 67 interdisciplinary minors. The most popular majors, in descending order, are education, business, the social sciences, biology, and psychology.
Geneseo is part of the New York Space Grant Consortium, and is provided grants by NASA to support outer-space related research on-campus..
=== Administration ===
Following the retirement of long-time President Christopher Dahl, Denise Battles became the college's president in July 2015. Melinda Treadwell will assume the role on October 27.
== Rankings and admissions ==
=== Admissions ===
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