Press Releases

Fall 1995
Southampton Identified as Top Science College

Contact: Jane Finalborgo
(516) 287-8313 Phone
(516) 283-4081 Fax

The Southampton Campus of Long Island University has been identified by Peterson's Guides, a major publisher of college guidebooks, as one of 200 colleges and universities in the United States that offers an outstanding undergraduate program in the sciences and mathematics.

The College will be included in a new book to be published by Peterson's in early 1996. The book, Top Colleges for Science -- Leading Programs in the Biological, Chemical, Geological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences, will be the first-ever college guide to the nation's leading undergraduate science programs.

The Southampton Campus was selected from among 1,500 four-year colleges and universities initially identified according to the classifications listed the 1994 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. An analysis was conducted on each of these institutions based on three major criteria: the number and percentage of alumni who earned doctorate degrees in the sciences and mathematics from 1988-1992; the number and percentage of undergraduates earning their degrees in the sciences and mathematics from 1988-92; and the number and percentage of alumni who were awarded National Science Foundation Fellowships in the sciences and mathematics from 1990-94.

Southampton, which was selected to be among the final 200 institutions included in the book, offers "one of the nation's strongest programs in undergraduate science and mathematics," according to Peterson's.