College Grades and Criteria
Grading Criteria
A = 100% tobacco-free campus policy (no tobacco use of any kind allowed anywhere on college property or in college vehicles). Although prohibiting e-cigarettes is strongly recommended and is the preferred policy, it was not included as an A grade when the criteria was originally developed and shared with colleges.
B = 100% smoke-free campus policy (no smoking allowed anywhere on college property or in college vehicles);
C = allow smoking in designated areas such as smoking huts, a parking lot, or other limited areas;
D = all other campuses with few (if any) outdoor restrictions such as those with smoke-free building entranceways or smoke-free perimeters around buildings.
I (Incomplete) = campuses that are in the process of establishing smoke-free and/or tobacco-free policies as evidenced by an active, administration-supported policy implementation committee.
Alphabetized College Grades as of July 1, 2015.
*Pluses and minuses were derived from a policy compliance score applied to colleges reporting a tobacco-free or smoke-free policy.
Adelphi University |
I |
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences |
A |
Albany Law School |
A- |
Albany Medical College |
B |
Alfred University |
D |
American Academy McAllister Institute |
C |
Bank Street College of Education |
A- |
Bard College |
D |
Barnard College |
B+ |
Boricua College |
C |
Bramson ORT College |
B |
Briarcliffe College |
D |
Brooklyn Law School |
D |
Buffalo State College |
A- |
Canisius College |
D |
Cayuga Community College |
A |
Cazenovia College |
B+ |
Clarkson University |
D |
Clinton Community College |
I |
Cochran School of Nursing |
B+ |
Colgate University |
D |
College of Mount Saint Vincent |
C |
Columbia University |
D |
Cornell University |
D |
Corning Community College |
A |
Crouse Hospital College of Nursing |
B+ |
Culinary Institute of America |
C |
CUNY Baruch College |
A |
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College |
A- |
CUNY Bronx Community College |
A |
CUNY Brooklyn College |
A+ |
CUNY College of Staten Island |
A |
CUNY Graduate Center |
A |
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism |
A |
CUNY Hostos Community College |
A |
CUNY Hunter College |
A |
CUNY Jefferson Community College |
A |
CUNY John Jay college of Criminal Justice |
A |
CUNY Kingsborough Community College |
A |
CUNY LaGuardia Community College |
A |
CUNY Lehman College |
A+ |
CUNY Macaulay Honors College |
A |
CUNY Medgar Evers College |
A+ |
CUNY New York City College of Technology |
A |
CUNY Queens College |
A- |
CUNY Queens School of Law |
A- |
CUNY Queensborough Community College |
A |
CUNY School of Professional Studies |
A |
CUNY Stella and Charles Guttman Community College |
A |
CUNY The City College of New York |
A+ |
CUNY York College |
A- |
Daemen College |
D |
Davis College |
A |
DeVry College of New York |
C |
Dominican College |
D |
Dowling College |
D |
D’Youville College |
A |
Elmira College |
D |
Erie Community College |
A+ |
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts |
D |
Excelsior College |
C |
Farmingdale State College |
I |
Fashion Institute of Technology |
B+ |
Finger Lakes Community College |
C |
Finger Lakes Health College of Nursing |
A |
Five Towns College |
D |
Fordham University |
D |
Fulton-Montgomery Community College |
C |
Hamilton College |
D |
Hartwick College |
D |
Helene Fuld College of Nursing |
A+ |
Herkimer County Community College |
D |
Hilbert College |
A |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
D |
Hofstra University |
D |
Houghton College |
A+ |
Hudson Valley Community College |
A |
Institute of Design and Construction |
B |
Iona College |
D |
Ithaca College |
C |
Jamestown Business College |
C |
Jamestown Community College |
A |
Jewish Theological Seminary |
C |
Keuka College |
C |
Le Moyne College |
A |
LIM College |
B- |
Long Island University |
D |
Manhattan College |
D |
Manhattan School of Music |
C |
Manhattanville College |
D |
Mannes College, The New School for Music |
D |
Maria College |
A |
Marist College |
D |
Marymount Manhattan College |
C |
Medaille College |
C |
Memorial and Samaritan Hospitals’ Schools of Nursing |
A- |
Mercy College |
C |
Metropolitan College of New York |
D |
Mohawk Valley Community College |
D |
Molloy College |
D |
Monroe College |
C |
Monroe Community College |
A+ |
Montefiore School of Nursing |
B |
Mount Saint Mary College |
D |
Nassau Community College |
D |
Nazareth College |
D |
New York Chiropractic College |
D |
New York College of Podiatric Medicine |
B |
New York Institute of Technology |
D |
New York Medical College |
B |
New York School of Interior Design |
B- |
New York University |
B |
Niagara County Community College |
B |
Niagara University |
C |
North Country Community College |
D |
Nyack College |
A- |
Onondaga Community College |
C |
Pace University |
B |
Paul Smith’s College |
A+ |
Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing |
B- |
Plaza College |
B+ |
Pratt Institute |
D |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
A |
Roberts Wesleyan College |
A |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
D |
Rockland Community College |
A |
Sarah Lawrence College |
B |
Schenectady County Community College |
A |
Siena College |
A |
Skidmore College |
I |
St. Bonaventure University |
D |
St. Elizabeth College of Nursing |
A+ |
St. Francis College |
I |
St. John Fisher College |
C |
St. John’s University |
D |
St. Joseph’s College of Nursing |
A+ |
St. Lawrence University |
D |
St. Thomas Aquinas College |
D |
Stony Brook University |
I |
Suffolk County Community College |
I |
SUNY Adirondack |
A |
SUNY Alfred State College of Technology |
C |
SUNY at Fredonia |
A+ |
SUNY Binghamton University |
D |
SUNY Broome |
C |
SUNY Canton |
C |
SUNY Cobleskill |
C |
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
D |
SUNY College of Optometry |
B |
SUNY Columbia-Greene Community College |
C |
SUNY Cortland |
A+ |
SUNY Delhi |
C |
SUNY Downstate Medical Center |
C |
SUNY Dutchess Community College |
I |
SUNY Empire State College |
D |
SUNY Genesee Community College |
C |
SUNY Geneseo |
D |
SUNY Maritime College |
C |
SUNY New Paltz |
D |
SUNY Old Westbury |
I |
SUNY Oneonta |
D |
SUNY Orange County Community College |
C |
SUNY Oswego |
A |
SUNY Plattsburgh |
D |
SUNY Polytechnic Institute |
I |
SUNY Potsdam |
I |
SUNY Purchase College |
I |
SUNY Sullivan Community College |
D |
SUNY Ulster |
B |
SUNY Upstate Medical University |
A |
SUNY, Morrisville State College |
D |
SUNY, Stony Brook University Hospital |
B |
SUNY, University at Albany |
D |
SUNY, University at Buffalo |
B |
Syracuse University |
C |
The College at Brockport |
I |
The College of New Rochelle |
C |
The College of Saint Rose |
A- |
The College of Westchester |
C |
The Cooper Union for Achievement of Science and Art |
D |
The Juilliard School |
C |
The King’s College |
B+ |
The New School |
D |
The Richard Gilder Graduate School |
B |
The Rockefeller University |
B- |
The Sage Colleges |
A |
Tompkins Cortland Community College |
C |
Touro College |
D |
Trocaire College |
A- |
Union College |
I |
University of Rochester |
D |
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry |
B |
Utica College |
C |
Vassar College |
A |
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology |
D |
Villa Maria College |
A |
Wagner College |
I |
Webb institute |
C |
Wells College |
C |
Westchester Community College |
A |
Yeshiva University |
C |