Alumni Resources

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The Center for Career Development warmly invites alumni to take advantage of the wide range of professional development resources available at Cooper Union. These include one-on-one career counseling appointments, access to our comprehensive online job and internship platform, 12twenty, and a variety of workshops and career-related events hosted throughout the year. 

While our services are primarily designed to support current students and recent graduates, we understand that career development is a lifelong journey. We welcome the opportunity to meet with alumni—particularly those who have graduated within the last several years—and we will always do our best to offer guidance, support, or referrals whenever possible. 

Cooper Union alumni remain a vital part of our community. Your experience, insight, and generosity continue to enrich our students’ professional journeys. Alumni frequently play a key role by serving as mentors, offering internships or job opportunities, participating in panels or workshops, and sharing their career stories. If you're interested in staying involved, we’d love to connect and explore ways you can contribute to our shared mission of student and alumni success.

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Career Development

 

Recruit at Cooper

 

Mentor a Student in Engineering

 

Alumni Affairs & Development

 

  • 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.