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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 November.  Please mark your calendar for those dates on Friday, November 9th, 16th and 30th beginning at 3:30pm.  Registration is available online.
    We welcome you to visit our events and exhibitions as well.  Please follow those programs at: http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions as many are open to the public.

  • Engineering

    The School of Engineering will be hosting a limited number of small group tours for prospective engineering students and their families. For information on attending these tours, please visit the engineering tour calendar.
    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.