Siena College occurs as nationally recognized Catholic liberal arts college situated in the suburban community of Loudonville, New York, two miles north of Albany. Siena College was founded inside 1937 by Franciscan friars. A college is composed of iii schools of learning: School of Liberal Arts, School of Science & School of Business. Siena students typically profit from either a College’s proximity to Albany, a hub of political & ethnical activity & a center of Tech Valley, by getting practical internships (& around the future, careers) in government, the arts, science & business.

A 164-acre Siena College campus is known throughout a community for its gold-domed building, Siena Hall, which has turn into two symbol & signature. Wholly renovated & updated by using electronically enhanced schoolroom & the state-of-the-art fiscal technology center inside 2004, Siena Hall is okay, a reminder of the College’s rich history likewise as a wellspring for innovative teaching & learning. Recent additions to a Siena campus include the J. Spencer & Patricia Standish Library, which houses a Yates Gallery, & a Sarazen Campus Center.

A Siena Locate Institute (SRI), which was founded within 1980, conducts public opinion poll that come quoted per national media (Future York Days, USAToday, etc.) & easily-known authors (e.g. Betty Boyd Caroli within her book 1st Ladies). Within 1982, SRI conducted the world's number one Ranking of Foremost Ladies. Additional recently, SRI has conducted studies inside a 1st Woman President & hosted the Number 1 Woman President Symposium in March 2005. SRI is regularly conducting polls on Future York's consumer stock & polls before elections.

Siena sponsors Eighteen sports teams that compete at a NCAA Section I personally level. Seventeen Saints' sports teams compete in the MAAC, with hockey swimming in the Northeast Conference. Around 1989, a Siena mens' five caught a united states's attention sustaining the number 1 spherical NCAA Tournnament triumph (80-78) complete third seed Stanford. A Siena mens' five processed a second unlikely leap into college basketball's large stage inside 2002 sustaining an ESPN televised opening around triumph above Alcorn State-- a Saints late fell to national champion Maryland prior to 20,000 fans at a MCI Center around Wa. This was a team's third hike to the 'Heavy Dance".

Siena students participate the college's regionally popular radio station (WVCR) http://www.wvcr.com/. Other activities include: choral groups, concert band, dance, drama/theater, literary magazine, music ensembles, musical theater, band, student government, student newspaper (The Promethean), student film society, and symphony orchestra.

The campus' main building Siena Hall was completed in 1938. Other notable classroom buildings are Foy Hall (1940), Kiernan Hall (1987) and Roger Bacon Hall (1967). Siena's dormitories are Plassmann Hall (1955), Ryan Hall (1966), Hennepin Hall (1968), Hines Hall (1948), Padua Hall (2001). The senior townhouses are McCloskey Square and Cushing Village.

Notable Siena graduates include: Governor George Deukmejian, former governor of California William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize winning author Kenneth J. Ringler Jr. , Executive Director, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Congressman Jack Quinn His Excellency Harry Flynn, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis Raymond Fisher, vice president of Daimler-Chrysler Corp. Ron Vawter, actor (Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs, Sex Lies and Videotape) Douglas Colbeth, president and CEO of Kinaxis, former president and CEO of Spyglass, a pioneering Internet developer Kathleen Jimino, Rensselaer County Executive, NY Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the NRA Bob Danzig, The Hearst Corporation, ranking senior executive Jeffrey W. Connelly, General Electric Vice President for GE Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies His Excellency Roberto González Nieves, Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico