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Course Fee and Fee Waivers

2025-26 Tuition & Fees  

Tuition for Summer 2025: $3,950 for our 6-week courses; $1,950 for our 3-week course. Note that for 2026, Summer STEM course fees are subject to be increased.

STEM Saturdays courses for the 2025-25 academic year range between $2,000-$3,000/course.

Fee Waivers

The overarching goal of our programs is to offer an engineering and design experience to all students, regardless of their ability to pay.  Full and partial fee waivers are available to students who qualify. The amount of the fee waiver is need-based and assessed based on financial documentation and family circumstances.  Priority is given to students from New York City who live within its 5 boroughs. We have a limited number of seats available for students who require fee waivers. To that end, fee waivers are not guaranteed for all students who apply and are accepted into our STEM programs. .

Students will receive a notice of their fee waiver award when they receive their acceptance letters.  All notices and letters will be sent by email to the student.

Payment Schedule

A non-refundable deposit of 50% of tuition is due two weeks after you receive your offer email.  The remaining balance is due on June 2, 2025.  Seats will be given to waitlisted students if your balance is not paid by the deadline.

If a student withdraws before the start of the program, and has paid the full course fee, they can request a refund of 50% of the course fee. The first deposit is non-refundable. 

Payments

Though we prefer electronic payments, there may be a time whereby you must write a check. Checks should be made out to 'The Cooper Union' and mailed here:

The Cooper Union
Attention: Yvonne Thevenot, Director
Summer STEM Program
7 East 7th Street
Building: 30 Cooper Square - Room 308
New York, NY 10003

 

 

 

  • 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.