Welcome Week 2025

Welcome Week 2025

Welcome Week will be an in-person series of workshops, experiences, and social engagements to prepare you for the start of this new adventure! 

IMPORTANT NOTE: The updated 2025 Welcome Week 

schedule has not yet been confirmed or posted!

More updates will be shared in the coming weeks. Please continue to check this page for updates, as well as your Cooper Union email address once you have one & it is activated. If you would like to learn a bit more and see a sample of what happened/was covered during Welcome Week last year (2024), please see below. Remember, the updated 2025 schedule and specifics around ResHall move-in, the math placement exam, orientation sessions, and excursions will be shared as soon as they confirmed in the coming weeks! 

Welcome Week 2024:

Welcome Week begins on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 and continues through, and includes, Monday, September 2, 2024 (Labor Day); the move-in date for those living within the Residence Hall will be August 28*. We encourage all students to plan accordingly as attendance at our on-campus Welcome Week activities is essential. Students who cannot attend will miss key information including the time spent meeting peers and building new friendships. During Welcome Week, you will meet key faculty, advisors, staff, and peers and build bonds and friendships that will last throughout your time at Cooper Union and beyond. 

Find the full schedule for Summer Orientation and Welcome Week 2024 here. In the meantime, please review essential information found on our Fall 2024 Admitted Students page found here. 

All new students should plan to be in New York City for our in-person Welcome Week activities.

*Please note that Housing Offers will be sent in the 3rd week of June

 

IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR PARENTS:
 
Join the Cooper Union Newsletter: https://cooper.edu/about/newsletters
 
Slides from the Opening Parent Session by Dean Grace Kendall can be found here in the coming days. 

  • 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.