SUNY at Purchase College Top Questions

It's isolated away from New York City.

The most frustrating thing about Purchase is that the dorm buildings are not kept very well.

Although most of the online courses offered were amazingly well organized and executed. Due to the fact that it is a new format some of them need more work to be at the level a student deserves. As the online curriculum matures I assume it will improve, but it’s not quite there yet. More research and development is needed.

The help in the office and lack of guidance counceling

It is isolated. Without a car you are stuck there.

For those without a car, transportation. The school is in an oddly inconvenient place. Close to big pedestrian cities, but not close enough. The school, in a physical sense, is bleak and unattractive. Most of the academic buildings and dormitories exist in a state of disrepair. As is to be expected, funding in a public school is not comparable to that of a private institution, but even for a state college the facilities are meager at best.

To much Alcohol. Some of the Conservatories are really pretentious and aren't so great.

This school is famous for red tape and R.A.s and C.A.s that harass students get your parents involved when these things happen.

The most frustrating aspect is trying to get healthy, good food on campus with my very demanding class and reahearsal schedule.