College in Westchester County NY

Purchase College, SUNY:
Purchase College, SUNY, located 20 miles north of Manhattan in Westchester County, New York, is a public liberal, visual, and performing arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Arts, Sciences, Liberal Arts and Education. Purchase College, SUNY is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Located 20 miles north of Manhattan in Westchester County, the Purchase College campus sits on a 500-plus acre estate settled in 1734 by Judge Thomas Thomas. The Administration complex was built in the 1920s and occupied by the Chisholm family as a working farm until 1967 when New York State governor Nelson Rockefeller purchased the property to create Purchase College. Master architect Edward Larrabee Barnes created "a city within the country" - buildings clustered around a plaza, surrounded by fields and meadows. In addition to Barnes, seven other major architects helped to design individual buildings.