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Please note: The Offices of Admissions, Records and Registrar, and Financial Aid, are currently located on the 6th floor of 30 Cooper Square. 

Our summer schedule will be in effect from Monday, June 9, through Friday, August 29, 2014.

During this period, Cooper's business hours will be Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Regular business hours resume on Tuesday, September 2, 2014.

Architecture

The School of Architecture hosts small group tours during the school year, from September through April. A limited number of tours of The School of Architecture will be offered during Summer 2014. Dates and times to be determined. Pre-registration is required for these tours. Please contact The School of Architecture Office at (212) 353-4220 or architecture@cooper.edu for further information.

Art

The Cooper Union actively participates in events sponsored by The National Portfolio Day Association across the US and Canada. You can view a list of the events Cooper Union reps will attend for 2014-2015 here. 

The School of Art also hosts Portfolio Review days in the fall. These open houses are the best time to visit the School of Art. This year's dates will be November 7th, 14th, and 21st, and December 5th.* Registration and more information about portfolio review on Cooper's campus will be posted in early fall.

* Sabbath observers may request a Thursday review rather than a Friday. 

We welcome you to visit our events and exhibitions as well, which are open to the public unless otherwise specified.

Engineering

The School of Engineering hosts small tours for prospective engineering students and their families. Registration is required. For information and to register, please visit the engineering tour calendar. Summer tours will begin in mid-June. Tours will take place Mondays, Thursdays, and some Tuesdays.

Teachers and counselors who would like to arrange a small group tour for students seriously interested in engineering may email Abby Davis at adavis@cooper.edu

If you have any questions about the application process or to register for the tours, please e-mail admissions@cooper.edu

  • 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.