Houghton College provides an academically challenging, Christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a changing world. Since 1883, Houghton College has provided a high-quality, deeply Christian education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from around the world. Explore over 70 programs offered at our scenic, residential campus in Western New York. Houghton College is located 65 miles southeast of Buffalo and 70 miles southwest of Rochester in Houghton, New York. On all sides of our 1,300-acre campus is the scenic beauty of the rolling hills and northern hardwood forests of Western New York. Launching in the fall of 2014, Houghton College Buffalo provides Houghtons high-quality, distinctly Christian education as an affordable non-residential option to students in and around the city of Buffalo, with studies leading to completion of an Associate in Arts degree.