there are a large variety of colleges in the suny system with some overlap in specialties from site to site. suny divides its campuses into four distinct categories: university centers/doctoral-granting institutions, university colleges, technology colleges, and community colleges. suny also has a unique relationship with its statutory colleges which embeds state-funded colleges within other institutions such as cornell university and alfred university. students at the statutory colleges have the benefit of state-subsidized tuition while receiving all of the campus life amenities of the host institutions.