At Geneseo, you'll join a community committed to inquiry, creativity, and reflection. You'll inquire whenever your work engages with meaningful questions about the world around us, create whenever you apply the skills you've learned in the classroom to new situations, and reflect whenever you make connections between your academic work and your personal goals and dreams.
Important information for students about the 20/21 academic experience.
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Study Abroad
At Geneseo, you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to practice inquiry and creativity in more than sixty countries as part of a study abroad program.
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Arts
At Geneseo, you’ll demonstrate your creativity and nurture your mind, body, and spirit by participating in a wide variety of musical, theatrical, and other artistic opportunities.
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Integrative Learning
At Geneseo, you’ll practice inquiry and creativity through community-based and independent learning opportunities at our Center for Integrative Learning.
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Undergraduate Research
At Geneseo, you’ll take inquiry to the next level by working with a faculty mentor who will guide you through research experiences that make a difference in the world.
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National Fellowships and Scholarships
At Geneseo, you’ll use your powers of inquiry and creativity to pursue major educational fellowships and scholarships such as U.S. Student Fulbrights, Goldwater Scholarships in mathematics and the sciences, and many more.
Geneseo’s academic programs will ask you to continuously reflect on your learning, your future plans, and your place in the world. Our Mission, Vision, and Values will help guide you; our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will help you find your place in our community; and our Geneseo Learning Outcomes for Baccalaureate Education will help you build a portfolio of skills that are essential in the 21st century. You’ll be empowered to tell the story about how your Geneseo experience reflects our common mission “to advance knowledge and inspire students to be socially responsible and globally aware citizens who are prepared for an enriched life and success in the world.”
Programs
Resources
Opportunities
Faculty and Instruction
87.9% of faculty hold a PhD or other terminal degree
1:18 faculty to student ratio
23 median class size
Academic Programs
50 undergraduate degree programs
25 interdisciplinary minors
graduate programs in accounting and education
49% of graduates have a double major and/or both a major and a minor
Program Highlights
Geography Field Studies
Geography students experience high-impact learning a number of ways, including a two-week intensive field studies course led by faculty through mountain, foothill, and prairie environments in Western Canada.
The course introduces students to geographical field observation as they examine the human-environment interactions and adaptations in Southern Alberta and British Columbia.
Students keep a field journal describing and reflecting upon their daily activities. They also participate in teaching by conducting advanced research and delivering presentations at designated locales along the route.
Academics News
4+1 Master's Degree Partnership with Claremont Graduate U.
The SUNY Geneseo Department of History has entered into an agreement with Claremont Graduate University (CGU) to offer an accelerated bachelor's-to-master's program in history or cultural studies with a concentration in museum studies.
Geneseo Names the 2021 Student Ambassadors
The College recently named the 2021 student ambassadors, who will each lead and complete various initiatives they feel are important in the areas of health, gender equality, arts promotion and preservation, identity, or science communication.
Geneseo Dance Ensemble to Perform "Dancing Without Limits"
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance Studies presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble’s Dancing the Liberal Arts in Dancing Without Limits, featuring live and digital works by dance studies faculty and student choreographers with 25 performers.