State University of New York at Purchase

The State University of New York at Purchase, also known as Purchase College and SUNY Purchase, is a public liberal, visual, and performing arts college in Purchase, New York, United States, a part of the State University of New York system. It was founded in 1967 and was designed as a school that would combine conservatory training in the visual and performing arts with liberal arts and sciences programs. It has conservatory programs in Theatre ... more

The State University of New York at Purchase, also known as Purchase College and SUNY Purchase, is a public liberal, visual, and performing arts college in Purchase, New York, United States, a part of the State University of New York system. It was founded in 1967 and was designed as a school that would combine conservatory training in the visual and performing arts with liberal arts and sciences programs. It has conservatory programs in Theatre Arts & Film, Music, and Dance, as well as schools in the Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences, and Art+Design. It has an enrollment of approximately 4,000 students, and is one of the Princeton Review's top 368 American Universities. The School of Humanities and its programs aim to help students in conceptualizing, interpreting, and imagining the worlds of human experience in words, in images, and through historical time. The school has departments and programs in Art History, Cinema Studies, Creative Writing, Drama Studies, History,... less