Five Towns College is dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and scholarship. As an independent college, IT seeks to enrich and to be enriched by the professional and cultural life of the Metropolitan-Long Island Region. The College serves the cause of business, education, literature and jazz/commercial music with emphasis on the performing arts and the entertainment industry. It offers programs leading to Associate, Bachelor, and Master's degrees that are designed for students preparing for careers as professional performers, composers, educators, recording engineers, cinematographers, producers of video music, journalists and business executives. The College seeks to foster, in those who participate in its intimate community, a noble commitment to ethical, intellectual, and social values and seeks to encourage and stimulate the pursuit of lifelong learning. It encourages its students to respect the differences of others as well as to develop their own unique talents to the fullest. Its distinctive curricula integrates the performing and liberal arts with rigorous academic inquiry, research, and practical experience, preparing its graduates to become ethical, literate participants in society with a global perspective.