So, cross out this sentence, and write a better one! Creative writing is an arts program for people who create with words. It is guided by a faculty who practice the art. On a campus that values art. Located just 30 miles north of where that art shouts out to the world. Writing remains the skill most central to thinking, and to success. It may even put you on the road to fame.

A Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History is an undergraduate degree program that focuses on the study of human history, societies, cultures, and events. The program typically spans four years and is offered by various colleges and universities worldwide.

A Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary degree program that focuses on understanding and addressing environmental issues from various perspectives, including scientific, social, political, and economic aspects. This program typically spans four years and is offered by many colleges and universities worldwide.

To respond to the changing demands of communication professionals, we provide students with skills and knowledge in TV production, public relations, and advertising. Although Purchase College has several majors related to media and communication, what sets this degree apart from others is that it helps students gain practical skills they can use in the creation and sale of television entertainment and corporate products and services and provides an integrated approach to the study of content production, public relations, and advertising.

The laptop in your backpack. The phone in your pocket. The game console in your bedroom. To you, they’re not just devices that work as if by magic. They’re understandable and controllable, and you want to help make that magic happen. A computer science degree at Manhattanville starts you down that road. Courses in applied and theoretical computer science will give you the skills necessary to enter the business world or pursue graduate study in computer science. The variety of course offerings also allows ample opportunity for non-majors to increase their computer skills.

Manhattanville’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Nursing for traditional 4-year and transfer students, an accelerated second degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing for students who already hold a Bachelor’s degree, and a Master of Science in Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner.

The Gender Studies program, which offers a major leading to the BA as well as a minor, examines gender and sexuality from a variety of approaches, from anthropology to psychology, literature to performance.

We’ve never had more tools at our disposal to communicate with each other than we do right now. Communicating effectively, though – and being able to command the attention of an audience at a time when everybody is trying to get their own message out there, too – becomes more challenging all the time. You’ll gain those skills at Manhattanville, where our curriculum emphasizes media studies, including media history, theory, criticism, law, ethics, and digital production. And you’ll be just 30 miles from New York City, home to countless print, broadcast, and online media outlets. Manhattanville students routinely put the lessons they learned here to work: Our students have recently interned or have been hired by ABC News, ABC News Radio, CNN America, CNBC, Rolling Stone Magazine, Nickelodeon, The Colbert Report, Sirius XM Radio, The Creative Group, The Creators Project, Seventeen Magazine, Music Choice, and Viacom.

A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting is a degree program that provides comprehensive training in the performing arts, with a specific focus on acting and theater performance. The program typically spans four years and is offered by various colleges, universities, and conservatories worldwide.

Anthropology is the most cutting-edge and interdisciplinary field in the social sciences. Anthropology is the study of culture and what it means to be human. We examine everyday life and ways of thinking that shape our identities. Most importantly, we look at the wide diversity of identities within and across cultures, globally. In no other field do you have the freedom to combine the mind-shifting experiences that come with deep immersion in a foreign culture with political action, philosophical meditation, creative writing, new exciting theories, video production, and music performances.

It’s the molecular basis of life, disease and immunity, heredity and evolution, and the Earth’s ecological balance. It’s everything…and it’s exciting. Studying biology at Purchase puts you at the center of the dramatic advances in this rapidly expanding field. You’ll actively participate in your education and you’ll study and pursue research with accomplished faculty.

At Purchase, history isn’t just about knowing what has happened; it’s about understanding it. It’s about figuring out how society works and where we fit into it. If you’re looking to untangle the complexities of the world, a major in history might just be for you. Far more than the mere memorization of dates and events, history is a living world waiting for us to set it free.

In an increasingly complicated world, where the very idea of objective truth is being challenged, it falls to journalists to dig, untangle, and tell us what’s going on … before the facts are brushed away. As a journalism major, you’ll learn how to gather, assess, and disseminate information and ideas. You’ll be challenged to find new ways of thinking, and new ways of approaching problems.

Economics is our drive, our struggle, our passion, our world. Economics almost seems like magic. It’s part mathematics, part sociology, part psychology, and part clairvoyance. It’s people trying to predict future trends and human behavior in an ever changing world. And it’s everywhere. At Purchase, we want you to come away not thinking about big banks and Wall Street, but about scarcity, poverty, freedom, and equality. 

An English and Global Literatures degree from Purchase College teaches you to write well and think critically, preparing you for a number of career paths. Our graduates have received PhDs, become teachers, worked as editors, published award-winning novels, written for television and emerging social media markets, practiced law, started businesses, and much more.