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Campus Description:
Located in a small, cosmopolitan city in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, Ithaca College combines the individual attention of a small private college with the world-class facilities of a large university.

Ithaca was founded in 1892 as a music conservatory and today continues that commitment to performance and excellence. Its modern, residential 650-acre campus, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, is home to 6,400 students in its Schools of Business, Communications, Health Sciences and Human Performance, Humanities and Sciences, and Music, and a Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies. The College offers over 100 degree programs with teacher certification options in over a dozen fields, and a student-teacher ratio of 12:1 ensures plenty of personal attention from our award-winning faculty.

An Ithaca education emphasizes active learning in the classroom and beyond. Students may participate in dozens of co-curricular and extracurricular activities - the College has 26 highly competitive varsity teams, more than 160 campus clubs, campus magazines, a student newspaper, two radio stations, and a television station, and showcases hundreds of concerts, recitals, lectures, and theater performances annually. Satellite campuses in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and London and study-abroad programs in some 50 countries provide additional educational and professional opportunities.

The College's vibrant campus overlooks Cayuga Lake in one of the nation's top college towns, which is further enriched by neighboring Cornell University and an international population from dozens of countries. This diversity is reflected in the local cable channel's international programming, and in the places of worship, grocery stores, and ethnic restaurants throughout the Ithaca area.

Sports:
Varsity Sports: Women's: basketball, crew, cross-country, field hockey, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball. Men's: baseball, basketball, crew, cross-country, football, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, wrestling.

Intramural Sports: basketball, bowling, dodgeball, floor hockey, golf, ice hockey, indoor and outdoor soccer, kickball, softball, tennis, touch football, volleyball.

Club Sports: Variety of activities available, such as basketball, lacrosse, downhill skiing, softball, rugby, ultimate frisbee.

Clubs and Activities:
Ithaca College's over 180 student organizations range from the Aging and Gerontological Education Society to the International Business Association, from the Sign Language Club to Kuumba Repertory Theater. In addition, several national and international organizations, such as Amnesty International, maintain chapters on campus.

Fall 2008 Data


First-time, full-time student enrollment profile:

67.2% enrolled in top quarter of HS class

27.4% enrolled in top 10% of HS class

SAT critical reading mid-point range: 530* to 630**

SAT math mid-point range: 530* to 640**

*75% of the enrolled students scored at this level or better. **25% of the enrolled students scored at least this or better.

ACT:

Campus Demographics:

	All Undergraduate Students	All Graduate Students
% NYS Resident	43.8%	59.3%
% Resident of other states	53.7 %	32.8%
% International	1.6 %	5.9 %
% Live on campus	76.6 %	Did not collect %
% American Indian / Alaska Native	0.6 %	0.4 %
% Asian / Pacific Islander	4.3 %	2 %
% Black/African American	3.3 %	1.5 %
% Hispanic/Latino	4.4 %	2.9 %
% International	1.7 %	5.9 %
% White, Non-Hispanic	69.3 %	80.2 %
% Unknown Race / Ethnicity	16.4 %	7 %

Average financial aid package for first time, full-time undergraduate students with financial need:
$29,600


Financial Aid Data From Year:
2009

Average amount of institutional non-need scholarship/grant awarded to first time, full-time undergraduate students:*
$8,718
*NON-need based scholarships and grants do not depend on financial need and may be awarded for academic achievement, or talent in athletics, music or other fields (merit awards).


Special Programs:
Cross registration for courses is available with Cornell University and Wells College. Hundreds of internship options exist for students with special opportunities available through the College's program affiliates in Washington, D.C., London, England and Los Angeles, California. Clinical practica and affiliations are integral parts of curricula in health sciences programs. Ithaca College administers its own semester-long study abroad programs in London, in addition to sponsoring student exchanges with universities in the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain, and Sweden. Short-term summer and winter session programs are offered each year, in a variety of countries. Students may also study various disciplines and pursue internships in many other countries around the globe through affiliation agreements with other study abroad providers. With careful planning, students in any major can study abroad. The Washington Semester Program is an internship-centered program in the nation's capital designed to meet the academic and professional interests of students from a variety of majors. Ithaca College offers a Planned Studies program. Students develop an individualized educational goal and then select appropriate courses to meet that goal. This may lead to either a B.A. or a B.S. degree. In addition, the College offers a 3-2 engineering degree with Cornell University, Clarkson University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Binghamton University; 3-1 optometry program with the Pennsylvania College of Optometry and the SUNY College of Optometry; and a one-semester marine biology program at Duke University Marine Laboratory and the Sea Education Association.