Cooper Union

Giving Day 2024

Some Great News!

Thanks to the incredible support from our Cooper alumni and our entire community - students, alumni, family, and friends - Giving Day 2024 surpassed all expectations!

Together, we far exceeded our $600,000 goal to support support student scholarships!

Your generosity is truly remarkable and brings us closer to our goal of full-tuition scholarships for all Cooper Union undergraduate students.

If you haven't contributed yet, there's still time. Simply click here to make a safe and secure donation.

Thank you for your unwavering support of The Cooper Union.

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.