What will Purchase make possible for you?
Welcome to
a college as
unique
as you.
A diverse community of unconventional thinkers have found a home for their big ideas at Purchase College. We bet you’ll fit right in.
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What we value
Sustainability
Ranging in scale—from light bulbs and plastic bottles to entire buildings—our sustainability efforts represent a core value.
Recent Efforts
Culture of Inclusivity
Feel the raw energy created by the amazing blend of people who unabashedly express themselves as they choose, in a judgment-free environment.
Campus LifeUpcoming Events
Purchase New Music
Genre-breaking string ensemble Sybarite5 join Purchase New Music Ensemble for a concert featuring world premiers by Purchase composers, alongside hits from Sybarite5’s playlist.
Contemporary Ensemble
Contemporary Ensemble explores and transgresses the boundaries of classical music, performing music of the mid 20th Century to the modern day, including composers such as Boulez, Messiaen, Glass, Adès, Adams, Reich, Pärt, and recent works by composers yet well known!
Purchase Chorus
Purchase Chorus brings together students from across the campus to present choral masterworks in styles ranging from the Renaissance to the present day.