What Is EOP?

EOP provides a vehicle for admission to college for those who need it. EOP also provides invaluable counseling and tutoring support services to students whose economic and educational circumstances have already placed them at a disadvantage. EOP provides all participants with a counselor who has the sole responsibility of providing academic and personal support to program students.

Also an essential and critical service provided to all EOP students, considering the backgrounds of EOP students, tutoring services are above and beyond what the campus normally offers.

EOP students are also provided with Direct Aid funds to assist with college expenses excluding tuition. Direct Aid awards play a small, but nonetheless crucial role in completing the student financial aid package.

  • EOP is not a minority or race-based program; it is ethnically and racially diverse.
  • EOP is not a financial aid program.

EOP Students

  • Buffalo State typically enrolls up to 500 EOP students annually. An average of 150 new EOP students are admitted each year.
  • EOP students have been identified as students who have the talent and ability to succeed in college but have been placed at a disadvantage by financial and academic circumstances.
  • EOP students are successful students. At Buffalo State, approximately 50% hold GPA's ranging from 3.0 to 4.0.
  • Approximately 93 percent of EOP students have family incomes of less than $25,000 per year.
  • Despite their lack of resources, EOP students contribute toward their own education through self-help; work, personal/ parental loans, and family contributions 
  • Many former EOP students have been accepted and/or are currently enrolled in Buffalo State graduate programs on an openly competitive basis. Many others are successfully competing, succeeding, and contributing to their careers, families, and communities.