Campus Life

Campus Life | Campus Safety and Security | Greater Binghamton

1,000,000,000,000 things to do. (Okay, so we exaggerate).

The Princeton Review's "The Best 366 Colleges" (2007) list of "more to do on campus" ranks Binghamton University 17th in the nation.

But there’s so much to take in at Binghamton that four years will hardly seem like enough. Our students play as hard as they work in ways as diverse as they are themselves. A cappella singing, concerts, yoga, ballroom dancing, skiing and kayaking, student government, newspapers, TV and a radio station, coffee houses, theater, opera, intramural and club sports over 200 clubs and activities to choose from. Not to mention Spring Fling, Late Nite Binghamton and our 190-acre Nature Preserve. Listen to jazz at a local nightclub or cheer on our Division I Binghamton University Bearcats. Try your hand at acting or sculpting. And, if all of this isn’t enough, create your own organization or club. Binghamton is truly where you can excel at your interests. 

Our residential communities lie at the heart of campus life, providing a bridge to academics. Faculty masters and fellows, learning communities, area-based courses, first-year experience courses, linked courses and the Discovery Program enhance your learning experience. You get all of the benefits of a small community within a safe, diverse and thriving University campus. 

Greater Binghamton 

The Greater Binghamton Area has much to offer: two professional sports teams the Binghamton Senators and the Binghamton Mets, art galleries that are open late on the first Friday of every month for the First Friday Art Walk, parks, river walks and festivals, traveling opera and professional performances at The Forum and Tri Cities Opera, the Cider Mill Playhouse, Roberson Museum and Science Center and much more.

If you love to explore the great outdoors or plan to take up recreational activities, the Greater Binghamton area offers many local, county and state parks with walking, running, hiking and biking trails. The rivers winding among our rolling hills offer fishing, boating and kayaking activities and events. Rail trails are also popular with roller bladers, skate boarders and cyclists. Ski resorts welcome down hill skiers, snow tubers and snowboarders. Country Home (April 2007) ranked the Binghamton metropolitan area 9th among the Top 10 “Best Green Places” in the U.S. Among the top rankings were the metropolitan areas of Burlington, Vermont; Boulder, Colorado; and Springfield, Massachusetts.

So, there’s plenty of social and recreational life on- and off-campus!

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