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