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Innovators who take risks. Builders and creators who push ideas forward. Learners who want real challenges and real results. At Alfred University, you gain access to an affordable, high-quality education designed to move you toward your goals.
As a private university in western New York, Alfred helps you shape your own path through hands-on learning, close mentorship, and opportunities that test and strengthen your skills. Here, you can try, refine, and advance, without being limited by a set track.
Go beyond expected. Go outside the ordinary.
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Top-ranked Programs for You to Create
As a Saxon, you can combine majors across schools and shape an academic path that reflects your goals. Use the tool to search our programs.
Undergraduate
Power Your Growth
At Alfred, you’re encouraged to push beyond routine thinking and pursue work that matters. Our programs challenge you to analyze, create, and lead through experience. From hands-on projects to study abroad and student organizations, you’ll build the foundation for what comes next, far beyond your degree.
Graduate
Advance Your Expertise
Through the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies, you’ll build the expertise needed to advance your career. Choose from internationally recognized MS and PhD programs, as well as one of the nation’s top MFA programs.
Admissions + Aid
A Private Education at a Cost that Makes Sense
Alfred helps you access a price point comparable to many public universities. We connect you with scholarships, grants, and financial aid options that keep your tuition within reach.
The Alfred University Difference
What is Alfred University known for? Alfred doesn’t stay inside traditional lines, and we don’t expect you to, either. Since 1836, the university has attracted original thinkers, problem-solvers, designers, artists, and engineers who want more than a standard path.
Here, you join a community built on experimentation and practical innovation. You work alongside people who question assumptions, test ideas, and create solutions that matter. This is where unconventional thinking becomes real impact, and where you shape what comes next.
Alfred News
While many Alfred University students enjoyed spring break with rest and relaxation, fourth-year student Sofia Pizarro Lobos spent most of the week in New York City, working at the United Nations.