Admissions
Looking for a small, close-knit campus filled with incredible, hands-on learning opportunities? Our Admissions Office can help make Elmira College YOUR place.
Grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, Elmira College provides a collaborative and supportive environment that enables students to become active learners, effective leaders, responsible community members, and globally engaged citizens.
The legacy of academic excellence at Elmira College runs deep with a heritage and culture that have been forward-thinking from day one, as the first college for women with a course study equivalent to men's.
At Elmira, you’ll have opportunities that shape your future, raise your sights and equip you with targeted tools and skills to succeed in the professional world. Join a community that’s close-knit, fun-loving, and just the right amount of quirky.
Elmira College makes a private education more affordable than you realize, with a number of ways to get the financial assistance you may need. Our financial aid office can guide you through options, including scholarships, grants, loans, and work-study programs.
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Looking for a small, close-knit campus filled with incredible, hands-on learning opportunities? Our Admissions Office can help make Elmira College YOUR place.
With over 35 majors and minor areas of concentration, Elmira College lays the foundation for a diverse, cross discipline education, encouraging you to both specialize and explore.
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Individual interests or unusual career goals may lead an Elmira College student to customize an academic program to meet his or her intellectual and professional aspirations.
Individualized Studies allows you to customize your degree program if you have professional goals that don't perfectly fit within our current programs.
Most students who pursue this option complete the requirements for an established major and sometimes a minor, but work far in advance with faculty and career advisors to set up a special internship for late in the junior year or in the senior year. A few work with two advisors to develop their own major from the hundreds of existing courses. In the past, students have developed individualized majors such as arts management, advertising, scientific illustration, sports marketing-management, museum studies, and art history.
A wide variety of career options are available based on how you customize the program to meet your academic needs.
An outline of your proposed major, with a written rationale explaining its purposes and objectives, must be submitted for approval to the Provost no later than the registration date for Winter Term of your junior year. These documents must bear the recommendation of the advisor – or more than one if your major is interdisciplinary – and be accompanied with a formal request for approval from the division.
For a BA: At least 90 of the required credits must be in the liberal arts and sciences.
For a BS: At least 60 credits must be in the liberal arts and sciences.
Your major must include at least 36 credits, with at least 12 credits from courses numbered 3000 or above, at least 18 credits from a single discipline or closely related disciplines, and a writing intensive (WRT) course.
If you still have a few questions and would like an Admissions Counselor to reach out, click here to request more information.
Do you have questions about the Individualized Studies program? Please contact us.
