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Unlock Your True Potential
At Ithaca College, you’ll transform daily experiences into storyboards, compositions, and business plans. You’ll discover opportunities to learn in late-night conversations or courtside chats. You’ll expand your potential and unlock your whole self.
A Home Away from Home
Ithaca College is a place where you can find a home being exactly who you are.
Academic Programs and Schools
We offer more than 70 academic programs in our five schools led by expert faculty who are committed to you and your future.
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Push Boundaries, Unearth Discoveries
Our community thrives as students form connections, ask questions, uncover solutions, and challenge the status quo. We celebrate achievements while aiming for more progress and new discoveries ahead.
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Hands-On Spaces
Studios, stages, clinics, and laboratories help you hone your craft, whether you’re in the arts, health fields, business, media, or sciences.
$215M
Overall
Awards were made in grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study to IC students last year.
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Waterfalls Near Campus
Natural splendor is never in short supply in Ithaca, including cascading water. "Ithaca is gorges” for a reason.
Admission
We’re a natural home for thinkers and explorers. Choose from more than 70 undergraduate majors and 12 graduate degrees, and work with mentors who will support and stretch your talents.
Undergraduate Admission
On our collaborative campus, undergraduates work alongside faculty—and one another—in more than 70 majors and 70 minors, student organizations, and other exciting opportunities to spark questions and inspire solutions.
Graduate Admission
Develop your expertise and invigorate your long-term potential with professional degree programs, practical leadership courses, and specialized certificates.
Cost + Financial Aid
Paying for college can feel overwhelming. Our office is here to help you determine costs and navigate financial aid applications.
Scholarships
Our scholarships for new students are offered to those who excel in academics, artistic talent, community service, and leadership—or meet special circumstances.
Visit Us!
Experience the power of IC’s eclectic and energized community! Plan a tour on campus, or check out one of our virtual tours.
Ithaca Commitment
No surprises. No secrets. No stress. Know the full cost of your next four years—from day one. At Ithaca College we want to make figuring out how much your education will cost a little easier.
- Simplified financial aid process
- Four-year financial forecast
- One-on-one financial aid appointments
- A free IC Advantage course you can take online the summer before your first semester
Create Your Own Story
You’ll write adventures and overcome obstacles in new ways. Whether you have goals in place or you haven’t decided what your future holds, opportunities at Ithaca will allow you to explore your potential to its fullest.
Life at IC
Explore our distinctive community. Revel in the music. Head to a game. Join a Service Saturday. We’re a natural habitat for next-gen thinkers, innovators, performers, and seekers looking to make things happen.
Center for Student Success
We help students strategize and connect with IC resources that support academic, social, and financial wellness.
Health, Wellness, and Support
We offer an extensive array of mental and physical wellness services including counseling, coaching, and fitness centers.
About Ithaca, New York
"Gorge-ous" Ithaca, New York, has been ranked a #1 college town in the U.S. There's a good chance you won't run out of new things to do or places to explore.
Spotlights: The Ithaca College Story
A collection of introductions to the Ithaca College story—about those who continue to write it. Meet students, faculty, alumni, and other IC community members who took risks, embraced setbacks, and iterated their way to success.
Antara Sen & Beth Ellen Clark Joseph
Landing Out-of-This-World Opportunities
On a NASA mission, Antara Sen ’22 and Professor Beth Ellen Clark Joseph set national research and lifelong friendship into motion.
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Nick Capodilupo
Daring Stages and Stadiums
Nick Capodilupo ‘24 found his voice and his vigor as a vocal performance major and football player at Ithaca College.
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Kara Cusolito & Aaron Munzer
Growing the Future
Whether feature writing or farming, IC alumni Kara Cusolito ’08 & Aaron Munzer ’08 are building the future with their own hands.
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Featured Events
We keep busy at Ithaca College. Join us for concerts and stage performances, lectures and workshops, athletic events, club meetings, art exhibitions, and dozens of other opportunities to engage in the here and now.
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Ithaca College News
We create lots of buzz. Dive into our successes, campus highlights, and research innovations.
Blue + Gold = Green
IC’s 2024–25 sustainability goals build upon previous achievements and deliver a bold challenge to galvanize students, faculty, and staff while positioning the college among leaders in the region and across the national higher education landscape.
Undergrads, Big Ideas
Whalen Symposium offers undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct rigorous research.
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Forest Findings
Student-faculty team measures the carbon-sequestering powers of IC Natural Lands.
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Rooted in Purpose: A Gift that Grows Greener
Eric and Karen Smith Simon ’95 are investing in sustainability—and in the idea that purposeful giving can power whatever matters most to you.
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