A multimillion-dollar construction project completed in 2007 added a new athletics facility, a student center, and expanded and enhanced the college's library.

In addition to customized training, a complete schedule of dozens of non-credit professional development programs is offered to individuals.

Both on-campus and online classes are offered to help people learn skills needed to improve their positions in the workforce.

Tompkins Cortland was one of the first community colleges in New York to offer on-campus housing, beginning its residential life program in 1999 with two buildings.

Through a combination of transfer credits and study in the United States students may receive complementary degrees from their home university and at Tompkins Cortland.

Students and community members have the chance to take faculty-led trips to Puerto Rico, Cambodia, Colombia, Ireland, Italy, Nicaragua, and Spain.