Ithaca College

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a small suburb.

Overview

Ithaca College was established in 1892 as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. It was established by William Egbert and became a private college in 1931. The college is famous for its communications program. Its campus is spread across an area of more than 750 acres on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. In addition to the Ithaca campus, IC has various satellite campuses. It is organized into the following academic divisions:

• Division of Graduate Studies
• Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
• Roy H. Park School of Communications
• School of Business
• School of Health Sciences & Human Performance
• School of Humanities & Sciences
• School of Music

IC has various national and independent fraternities and sororities. However, IC's administration removed most of the Greek letter organizations from campus in the 1980s due to many vastly publicized hazing incidents. The remaining Greek organizations include Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Iota.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in media, music, drama and performing arts, nutrition and exercise therapy, therapy and counseling, and photography and commercial art.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High percentage of students are from out-of-state.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Large number of students.
• Good faculty-to-student ratio.
• High faculty salary.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).

School characteristics:

• The school is private, not-for-profit.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Masters Colleges and Universities I.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 6,448 in 2009-2010 (6,579 full-time equivalent).

About 44% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 56% of the class.

Undergrads are 91% of enrolled students and graduate students are 9%.

Students under 25 years old represent 98% of the student body. About 0% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Ithaca provides on-campus housing for 4,395 of its 6,579 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Empire Eight for major sports.

Graduate School Focus

Ithaca offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Postbaccalaureate With Arts & Sciences (Fields Other Than Education And Business).

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ART STUDIES (3 awarded)

• Art/Art Studies

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (190 awarded)

• Accounting
• Business Administration and Management
• International Business/Trade/Commerce

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (11 awarded)

• Computer and Information Sciences

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (13 awarded)

• Environmental Science
• Environmental Studies

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (62 awarded)

• Acting
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts
• Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology
• Theatre/Theatre Arts Management

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (149 awarded)

• Art Teacher Education
• Biology Teacher Education
• Chemistry Teacher Education
• Education/Teaching Individuals - Speech or Language Impairments
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• English/Language Arts Teacher Education
• French Language Teacher Education
• German Language Teacher Education
• Health Teacher Education
• Mathematics Teacher Education
• Music Teacher Education
• Physical Education Teaching and Coaching
• Physics Teacher Education
• Secondary Education and Teaching
• Social Studies Teacher Education
• Spanish Language Teacher Education

FINE ARTS (12 awarded)

• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
• Fine/Studio Arts

LAW (7 awarded)

• Legal Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (231 awarded)

• Anthropology
• Applied Economics
• Creative Writing
• Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• French Language and Literature
• German Language and Literature
• History
• Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies
• Italian Language and Literature
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Social Sciences
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Speech and Rhetorical Studies

MATHEMATICS (10 awarded)

• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Mathematics

MEDIA (269 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs
• Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia
• Journalism
• Mass Communication/Media Studies
• Organizational Communication
• Radio and Television
• Recording Arts Technology/Technician

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (13 awarded)

• Hospital and Health Care Facilities Administration/Management
• Public Health Education and Promotion

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (58 awarded)

• Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist
• Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences
• Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

MEDICINE (5 awarded)

• Gerontology
• Public Health

MUSIC (97 awarded)

• Conducting
• Jazz/Jazz Studies
• Music Pedagogy
• Music Performance
• Music Theory and Composition
• Music

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (165 awarded)

• Athletic Training/Trainer
• Health and Physical Education
• Health and Physical Education/Fitness
• Kinesiology and Exercise Science
• Occupational Therapy/Therapist
• Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
• Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (90 awarded)

• Cinematography and Film/Video Production
• Film/Video and Photographic Arts

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (7 awarded)

• Philosophy
• Philosophy and Religious Studies

SCIENCE (43 awarded)

• Biochemistry
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (270 awarded)

• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Physical Therapy/Therapist
• Psychology