Visit Campus

We offer many types of visits—you choose based on your schedule and interests.

Accepted Student Events

Whether you’ve previously visited campus or would like to see it for the first time before making your final decision, we welcome you to meet future friends and fellow students and chat with the professors and staff who will be guiding you throughout your time here. Accepted Events

Information Sessions and Tours

For a general overview of Purchase College, its academic programs, and life on campus, we offer Information Sessions and Tours. All are welcome to attend, but if you have a specific interest in the disciplines below, we encourage you to attend the program-specific sessions listed below.

Weekday Info Sessions

Saturday Info Sessions

Campus Tours Only

Campus Tours include stops at a sample residence hall room, dining facilities, classrooms, The Performing Arts Center, select studio/performance spaces, and the library. Register here.

Visual and Performing Arts

Prospective students should attend this session if you’d like to learn more about majors in art and design, music, acting, theatre design/technology, and film. Register here.

Express Portfolio Review Day

If you’re applying to our School of Art+Design, show your work to our faculty and be considered for immediate admission to Purchase based on portfolio and academic standards. February 1, 2019. The School of Art+Design also attend National and Regional Portfolio Days in the fall across the country, check out where you will find our faculty. 

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Dance

This session is specifically for prospective students interested in the Conservatory of Dance. Register here.

Transfer Tuesday

We can help you navigate during Transfer Tuesdays, which include an individual meeting with an admissions advisor, a group Q&A exclusively for prospective transfer students, and a campus tour. Register here

Interviews

Admissions interviews are not mandatory, but we do offer you the opportunity to have an interview with one of our admissions counselors. An interview will allow you to tell us more about yourself than can typically be expressed in a written application, and may help the admissions committee make a more informed decision about your enrollment.

 To schedule an interview, call the Admissions Office at 914-251-6300. Interview appointments are generally available on weekdays throughout the year. You should schedule an interview after you have submitted an application for admission.

Interview Policy

Open House

This immersive event features an information session, campus tour, community fair with academic programs and optional financial aid sessions and open studio tours in the conservatory buildings. Offered twice in the fall; October and November. 

Groups

We offer visits tailored to groups of ten or more people.

Visual Media Day

You’re often described as visually oriented. Spend the day learning about all of our visual arts programs, including film, photography, new media, theatre design/technology, graphic design, painting and drawing, printmaking, and sculpture through campus tours, open studios, and shop tours. Visual Media takes place each fall.