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Budget Guide

This budget guide has been prepared with the hope that it will assist students in anticipating their financial needs while attending The Cooper Union. Based on our experience with students, we believe this to be a realistic guide for a nine-month academic year. It should be used as a guide and obviously does not reflect the exact costs involved in individual cases.

Budget Guide for 2013-2014

Architecture & Art

Includes $1,550 Student Fee, $250 general Lab and Studio Materials Fee, an average $1800 for books and supplies, and $700 for transportation.

Commuter$7,525
Dormitory Resident$20,845
Off-Campus Resident$22,025


Engineering

Includes $1,550 Student Fee, $250 general Lab and Studio Materials Fee, an average $1000 for books, and $700 for transportation

Commuter$6,725
Dormitory Resident$20,075
Off-Campus Resident$21,225

 

NOTE: Students without health insurance must add a Health Service and Insurance Fee of $1,100.

  • 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.