SUNY Polytechnic Institute

The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Polytechnic Institute or SUNY Poly) is a public university in the town of Marcy, New York, in the Utica–Rome metropolitan area. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, serving as its institute of technology. The institution was established as the Upper Division College at Herkimer/Rome/Utica in 1966.

SUNY Poly is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The university has programs in the disciplines of engineering, engineering technology, and other programs and degrees in business administration, technology, nursing, design, professional studies, and the arts and sciences. It offers undergraduate and graduate study, with no doctoral programs.

The university was initially established in 1966 as a graduate and upper-division (transfer) institution known as the Upper Division College at Herkimer/Rome/Utica. Beginning in 1969 the school offered classes in temporary locations such as classrooms at an elementary school and a disused mill building, and at extension sites for several years until the first buildings were constructed on the permanent Marcy campus in the 1980s. After a decade of growing enrollment, the school took on a new name in 1977, the State University of New York College of Technology at Utica–Rome. A decade later, in 1987, the school finally moved to its present location in Marcy and, two years later in 1989, changed its name again, becoming the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica–Rome (SUNYIT).

In 2002, the SUNY Board of Trustees approved a mission change, enabling SUNYIT to add lower-division programs in professional, technological, and applied studies to its upper-division offerings. In 2003, SUNYIT admitted its first class of freshmen, becoming a four-year institution.

The university adopted its current name, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, with the 2014 merger of the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, previously part of the University at Albany. This merger created five colleges within the institute: the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering, the College of Health Sciences, the College of Business Management, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. This was part of a larger effort by state government to create a nanotechnology hub in the Mohawk Valley.

In September 2016, SUNY Poly President Alain E. Kaloyeros was charged with felony bid rigging. He was consequently suspended as president without pay. Kaloyeros was convicted in 2018, but the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Kaloyeros's conviction in 2023.

In its 2016 tax filings, SUNY Poly disclosed investments in a number of box-office bombs produced by Ron Perlman, including a $750,000 investment in Pottersville.

In 2022, semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed opened a plant at the Marcy Nanocenter at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.