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Application Information and Instructions

Please Note: The Fall 2019 undergraduate application is now available! Apply to Cooper Union now! Spring admission is only available for Early Decision School of Art Transfer applicants. Cooper Union does not offer summer admission.

First Year

Transfer

Masters

Non-Matriculating Student Programs

Undergraduate Deadlines

The Cooper Union uses the Common Application as its undergraduate application. The Office of Admissions treats every application in the same manner, whether it is submitted electronically or on paper.

Early Decision for Fall 2019 Applications

Regular Decision for Fall 2019 Applications

  • School of Architecture: January 7, 2019
  • School of Art: January 7, 2019
  • School of Engineering: January 7, 2019 

Hometest & Studio Test Dates: Please click here for the dates that the Hometest will be sent to Art applicants. Please click here for the dates that the Studio Test will be sent to Architecture applicants.

Graduate Deadlines

Please Note: The Fall 2018 Master of Architecture II and Master of Engineering applications are now closed. The Fall 2019 graduate applications will be available October 2018.

Fall 2019 Masters Applications

  • Master of Architecture II: January 7, 2019
  • Master of Engineering: March 29, 2019

  • 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.