a variety of funding opportunities, programming, student services, and funding for departmental and student organizations.
The oldest campus newspaper is The Statesman, which was founded in 1957 when the university was in Oyster Bay. Other publications include the Stony Brook Press, Stony Brook Independent, Blackworld, and the Asian American E-Zine. Stony Brook also has a campus-wide public radio station, WUSB, which serves most of Long Island and dedicates programming to Stony Brook athletics and other events on campus.
Stony Brook once had a reputation as a commuter school, though in 2024, more than half of its undergraduates live on campus, as do a quarter of its graduate students. Around 83% of freshmen students are on-campus residents. Other schools have since adopted similar practices to increase residential numbers.
=== Student body ===
In fall 2021, the university had an enrollment of 26,782 students: 18,010 undergraduate students and 8,772 graduate students.
Of all students, 23,072 (86 percent) are …
