New York State College of Forestry

State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Motto	"Improve Your World"
Type	Public
Established	1911
Parent institution	State University of New York
Endowment	$22 million (2014)
President	Quentin D. Wheeler
Academic staff	127 full-time 47 part-time
Students	2,778 (2010)
Undergraduates	2,200
Postgraduates	578
Location	Syracuse, NY, USA
Campus	Urban and Rural
Colors	green, white & gold
Athletics	USCAA (HVIAC)
Nickname	Mighty Oaks
Sports	basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, woodsman
Mascot	Oakie
Website	www.esf.edu

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF, or ESF) is an American, specialized, doctoral-granting institution based in Syracuse, New York. It is immediately adjacent to Syracuse University, within which it was founded, and with whom it maintains a special relationship. ESF is a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. ESF also operates facilities in the Adirondack Park (including the Ranger School in Wanakena), the Thousand Islands, elsewhere in central New York, and Costa Rica. The College's curricula focus on the understanding, management and sustainability of the environment and natural resources. ESF is considered by Peterson's to be the premier college in the U.S. for the study of environmental and natural sciences, design, engineering, policy and management of natural resources and the environment. The college has expanded its initial emphasis on forestry to include professional education in environmental science, landscape architecture, environmental studies, and engineering in addition to distinguished programs in the biological and physical sciences. ESF is ranked at 43rd in the 2017 US News & World Report rankings of the top public national universities. It commemorated its centennial in 2011.

The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University was established in 1911 through a bill signed by New York Governor John Alden Dix. The previous year, Governor Hughes had vetoed a bill authorizing such a college. Both bills followed the state's defunding, in 1903, of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell. Originally a unit of Syracuse University, in 1913, the College was made a separate, legal entity.