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Architecture

The School of Architecture hosts small group tours during the school year and summer.
For more information and to register for a tour (registration required), please contact the school at (212) 353-4220 or architecture@cooper.edu

Art

The Cooper Union actively participates in events sponsored by The National Portfolio Day Association.

The School of Art also hosts Portfolio Review days in the fall. The dates for Fall 2013 will be:
Friday, November 8th, 2013
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
Friday, December 6th, 2013
Please register online to secure a place on one of these dates.

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 on attending these tours, please visit the engineering tour calendar.

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.