Suffolk County Community College is the second largest multi-campus college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, enrolling 20,000 students.  It offers degree and certificate programs in business; communications and the arts; computing; health, community and human services; liberal arts/university parallel; and technical, scientific and engineering studies.  The original full-time faculty of fewer than a dozen professors has grown to almost 400.  By 1998, the college had graduated more than 64,000 persons.  In addition, SCCC is one of the leading community colleges in the nation in producing Phi Theta Kappa Academic All-Americans.

Each year Suffolk County Community College prepares graduates to enter the work force in such marketable areas as medical records, opticianry, physical therapist assistant, medical assisting, travel and tourism, restaurant management and many other fields.  Other students transfer to four-year colleges and universities to complete their baccalaureate degree.  Suffolk graduates have gone on to  study at such institutions as Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, New York University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the State University of New York.