These are some ways that SUNY Purchase integrates the arts. The State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase has 4,000 undergraduates, widely known as an arts school, it has the motto of Think Wide Open.
Purchase College is a hands-on, community-focused institution made up of artistic and open-minded individuals. This ideal-sized campus has a beautiful setting and a welcoming and collaborative atmosphere.
Forty percent of undergraduates graduate with a degree from the School of Arts. Purchase offers BFA conservatory programs in dance, music, theatre arts, the School of Art and Design, and film.
All students participate in a honors-level senior project before they graduate, for example in the film school a student may move from writing a thesis to writing or producing an original screenplay or film.
Each semester, the night before finals begin, college faculty and staff stay late on campus to serve breakfast to hungry, cramming, stressed-out students during Pancake Madness.
No small drag competition, Fall Ball has students spending months perfecting their acts and organizers bringing in some of the greatest guest drag performers in the country.
Diverse, Creative, Artsy, Edgy, Inclusive, Low-key, Non-judgmental. Eighty-two percent of students are New York residents, and the remainder come from 40 states and 30 foreign countries.