100% agree, the Purchase College campus is terrible. However the jazz students and faculty are super plugged into the NYC jazz scene. The program director is the director of the bird land big band, other professors are session and working musicians. I was there twice this week for spring masters recitals which featured many of the other students in the combos. It’s a great sense of community it seems.
My hs sophomore son said “why would you want to go to Oberlin to study jazz when you can be here with all these NYC players?” I found it hard to disagree