As enrollment at private colleges drops, SUNY campuses gain

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Jay Tokasz

SUNY Buffalo State, bursting at the seams this semester, has tripled up freshmen in some dorm rooms and turned to an unlikely source for help in housing transfer students.

Nearly 200 Buffalo State students will live in Canisius College residence halls this year – a consequence of growing enrollment at the public college and declining enrollment at the private one.

What’s happening at the two campuses, which are two miles apart, highlights a broader trend in college enrollment in Western New York.

Tens of thousands of New York residents will fill the halls and classrooms of the region’s 20 colleges and universities for the start of the 2014-15 academic year this week and next.

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