In The News

April 2012

New York Times: Cooper Union Will Charge Tuition for Graduate Students

Dr. Bharucha said that the college also needed to be more aggressive about making money from its work in technology, which includes starting businesses and licensing patents, but that the efforts could take many years to pay off.

Wall Street Journal: Cooper Union to Charge

Starting in 2013, the school expects to significantly expand its small graduate program, charge tuition for those students while creating online classes and adding more continuing-education courses.

Art in America: Cooper Union Will Charge Grad Students Tuition

New York's celebrated arts and engineering college Cooper Union will charge tuition of its graduate students next year, while continuing to offer full scholarships to its undergraduates, president Jamshed Bharucha announced today.

Inside Higher Ed: Engineering a Compromise

President Jamshed Bharucha, who took office last year, said the college would start a series of new fee-based programs, including master’s and other professional programs, online programs, continuing education, and interdisciplinary programs, to bring in new revenues.

March 2012

New York Daily News: Cooper Union students compete to...keep an egg from breaking in a fall

"I think this is one of the all-time great college traditions," said Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha. "This is low-tech, low-cost, high-brain."

February 2012

Yale Daily News: Merging the arts and sciences, one lecture at a time

Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha will deliver the second of the 2012 Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities at Yale University on Tuesday, February 21. His talk, entitled “The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States through Music,” is organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar on music and human evolution. Read more

December 2011

American Radioworks: Podcast Friday - Saving Cooper Union
Inside Higher Ed: Financial Advice
The Villager: Preisident Bharucha gives update on fixing Cooper’s fiscal woes
The Villager: Facing future, staying committed to founder's vision

November 2011

On October 18, 2011, The Cooper Union inaugurated its twelfth President, Jamshed Bharucha. The inaugural celebration included two days of programming for the Cooper Union and New York City community, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the institution’s rich history. These events, covered in the following pages, included student and faculty exhibitions, a colloquium on globalization and the future of education, a reception on New York City’s High Line and a street party outside of our historic Foundation Building.

Cooper Union Trustee and celebrated journalist and author Daniel Okrent spoke recently with President Bharucha about his plans for Cooper Union. Read more

Art In America: Future of Free - Q&A With Cooper Union's Jamshed Bharuchad
Brian Lehrer Show: Cooper Union and the Cost of Higher Education

October 2011

MarketWatch: Innovator Educator Jamshed Bharucha Inaugurated as 12th President of The Cooper Union
The Villager: Jamshed jams at inauguration as Cooper's president

June 2011

New York Times: When the Melody Takes a Detour, the Science Begins

March 2011

Education Update: Dr. Jamshed Bharucha, President, The Cooper Union
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Appointments, Resignations
Indiawest.com: Jamshed Bharucha to Leave Tufts to Head Cooper Union
Indus Business Journal: Bharucha new Cooper Union head
Silicon India: Tufts' Jamshed Bharucha to join Cooper Union as President

February 2011

Academic Impressions: People In the News
Associated Press: Tufts provost to head NYC's Cooper Union college
Black Tie Magazine: Cooper Union Board Elects Innovative Educator Jamshed Bharucha
Boston Globe / Boston.com: Tufts Provost Named Cooper Union President
India Abroad: Jamshed Bharucha to head Cooper Union College
India New England: Tufts provost named head of New York's Cooper Union
The Local East Village: The Day | New Year, Same Old Weather
New York Indian: Cooper Union Board Elects Innovative Educator Jamshed Bharucha
New York Times: Provost of Tufts University will be named President of Cooper Union
New York 1: Tufts Provost Selected as New President of Cooper Union
New York Wala: Cooper Union Gets New President
Tufts Daily: Tufts, Cooper Union praise provost's interscholastic efforts
The Villager: New C.U. President
Zoroastrian: Jamshed Bharucha Named President of Cooper Union in New York

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.