Life at IC | Ithaca College

Build Your Community

Feel at home away from home. Host a movie night with your roommate, relax with friends over a tasty meal, and join a student organization to find those who share your passions.

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Residential Life

Laugh, study, get a good night's sleep, and build relationships that last a lifetime in Ithaca’s student housing communities.

Dining

Pop in for a cup of coffee or settle down for a healthy meal with friends in one of our comfortable, casual dining facilities.

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Student Organizations and Clubs

Find your people. Connect with others over your passion for service, culture, gaming, or—you name it—in more than 200 student groups.

Athletics

Feel that IC pride! Our athletes (known around campus as Bombers) are champions on and off the field. Whether you compete for one of our 27 Division III teams, play a club sport, or applaud them, you’ll be a part of the Bomber family. We cheer. Loudly.

Student Support and Wellness

Every aspect of the Ithaca College campus is designed to equip you to face challenges and to empower you to succeed. Check out our student support programs, academic, career, and health services, and more campus initiatives.

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Academic Support

We're here for you. Whether you want to change your major or prepare for exams, experts and advisors will help you finetune your goals, access tutoring, and stay on track in your program.

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Career Guidance

The Center for Career Exploration and Development helps you take all the right steps to land your dream internship and plan your career. And it doesn’t stop at graduation—we're a lifelong resource.

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Health & Wellness

Your physical, mental, and emotional health are our top priority. We have the medical, wellness, and mental health professionals and facilities that will make your college life all you want it to be.

Be change. Be changed.

Together, we stand for inclusion, belonging, equity, environmental sustainability, and global perspectives. We look at progress as a willingness to be changed—and to change others.

BIPOC Unity Center

We affirm, empower, and welcome students to be their whole selves, building bridges and providing culturally validating spaces.

Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, & Services

Find resources and people who help cultivate an inclusive campus environment where LGBT people live, learn, work and thrive.

Sustainability on Campus

Discover IC’s LEED-certified buildings, reuse programs, IC Natural Lands, among other sustainability initiatives at IC.

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Living in Ithaca

From stunning waterfalls, scenic hiking trails, and an award-winning farmers market to a “killer music scene,” Broadway-caliber theatre, eclectic restaurants, and a business startup incubator—it’s no wonder we were voted the #1 college town in the U.S.

Explore Ithaca

Inspire and Be Inspired

Bring your unapologetic self—your deepest passions, wackiest hobbies, loudest instruments, and wildest ideas—to our one-of-a-kind community. When your whole self is supported, your whole attention can be devoted to creating the world you want to live in. 

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Majors and Minors

Find your niche and explore your side interests in focused bachelor’s degree programs and one-off elective courses alike.

Trans-Supportive College/University

With a 5 out of 5 rating on the Campus Pride Index, IC is deeply committed to inclusive programs, policies, and services for LGBTQ+ students — and started National Pronoun Day.

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Student Orgs & Clubs

Put your passions and interests to work with like-minded people. You can even start your own club to bring your favorite hobby or volunteer opportunity to campus.

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.

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Duda Formoso

Build Your Community

Athletics

Feel that IC pride! Our athletes (known around campus as Bombers) are champions on and off the field. Whether you compete for one of our 27 Division III teams, play a club sport, or applaud them, you’ll be a part of the Bomber family. We cheer. Loudly.

Student Support and Wellness

Be change. Be changed.

Living in Ithaca

Inspire and Be Inspired

Spotlights: The Ithaca College Story

Seasons of Empowerment

Making Powerful Impressions

Modeling Your Mission

Daring Stages and Stadiums