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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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  • #11

    On 2025 Top Public Schools List
    (U.S. News and World Report)

  • $10,826

    Average Award for New and Continuing Students

  • 73%

    Undergrad Students Receive Financial Aid

  • $2.4m

    Merit and Talent Scholarships Awarded

  • 12:1

    Student to Faculty Ratio

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 Life

Upcoming Events

New Orleans Songbook artists
Apr
6

Jazz At Lincoln Center Presents: New Orleans Songbook

Luther S. Allison, piano
Quiana Lynell and Milton Suggs, vocals

5:00pm
Square illustration with many swirled colors in the background, the Purchase College logo, and the words Alumni Showcase
May
3

AW25: Alumni Showcase

Join us for an afternoon celebrating the passion and purpose of the creative and entrepreneurial Purchase alumni community! 

1:30pm - 7:30pm
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center artists
May
3

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

After beginning with Bach, who used six voices to compose his fugue-on-demand for Frederick the Great, the group splits for Classical and Romantic string trios, before re-combining in Strauss’s Sextet from Capriccio and Tchaikovsky’s blockbuster “Souvenir de Florence.” 

5:00pm