The State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome (SUNYIT) is a campus of the State University of New York located just north of Utica in the town of Marcy. Established by the SUNY Board of Trustees on June 14, 1966, SUNYIT is the State of New York's public institute of technology. SUNYIT is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. A $225-million-dollar partnership between SUNYIT and State University of New York at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering was announced in 2009; construction projects on the SUNYIT campus totaling $100 million are underway. More than 2,900 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs in technology and professional studies on the SUNYIT campus and online. SUNYIT students come from all over New York, many other states, and more than 20 other nations. Originally a graduate and upper-division institution, the college offered classes in temporary locations and at extension sites for several years until the first buildings were constructed on the permanent Marcy, New York campus in the 1980s.