Discover a new kind of university in New York City, one where scholars, artists, and designers come together to challenge convention and create positive change. Our university takes full advantage of its location in one of the most vibrant and diverse cities globally. Our colleges include Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the College of Performing Arts, The New School for Social Research, the Schools of Public Engagement, and Parsons Paris.
Since our founding in 1919, The New School has redrawn and redefined intellectual and creative thought boundaries as a preeminent academic center. Our rigorous, multidimensional approach to education dissolves walls between disciplines and helps nurture progressive minds. Students have the academic freedom to shape their unique, individual paths for a complex and rapidly changing world at our university.
With leading-edge faculty and world-renowned alumni, we are committed to developing students who will impact the world and solve the most pressing social issues of our time.
The New School's leadership team sets the course for the university's academic, intellectual, and creative rigor. Committed to excellence in all areas, our university leaders ensure that we adapt and respond to contemporary issues, create an inclusive community, and foster an environment in which students challenge convention through scholarship and creative exploration.
The New School's future will be shaped by the core values that have defined our past: academic freedom, tolerance, and experimentation.
The New School prepares students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, thus making the world a better and more just place. We will ensure that our students develop both the skills that a sound education provides and the competencies essential for success and leadership in the emerging creative economy. We will also generate practical and theoretical knowledge to understand our world better and improve the local and global communities.
We are and will be a university where design and social research drive approaches to studying our time issues, such as democracy, urbanization, technological change, economic empowerment, sustainability, migration, and globalization. We will be the preeminent intellectual and creative center for effective engagement in a world that increasingly demands better-designed objects, communication, systems, and organizations to meet social needs.
Our multidimensional academic programs free students from conventional boundaries, allowing them to learn deeply from many perspectives. They can explore courses across our colleges and disciplines and become immersed in multiple learning areas related to their areas of interest. The benefits of this academic freedom are enormous.
By stretching yourself beyond traditional academic pathways, you will grow intellectually and creatively, expand your problem-solving capabilities, and become prepared to affect a complex world. Your critical thinking skills will be honed as you prototype innovative solutions and receive firsthand experience through seminar-style and project-based learning.
Our rigorous academic approach at The New School goes beyond developing scholarly knowledge to help you uncover and actualize your passion and vision. Ultimately, you will forge a unique path that will forever change the way you investigate and create throughout your life.
Imagine an academic experience in which you chart your course of study and have the opportunity to engage in deep intellectual inquiry and to seek answers to pressing problems through creative discovery.
Our multidimensional academic approach fosters critical thinking and creative problem-solving. At The New School, a place where hard work and autonomy coalesce, students are afforded the freedom to explore and chart a unique course of study. Through our integrated curriculum, students can pursue multiple pathways and disciplines.
Study abroad through The New School and see the world in new ways. With our study abroad programs, students immerse themselves in another culture and develop an enhanced sense of self-awareness while growing academically and creatively.
Our approach to advising means you have one place to go for academic and career help. You will receive ongoing, holistic support from professional academic and career advisors who work with you to design your personalized degree pathways and prepare to effect change in the world after graduation.
The New School's labs, centers, facilities, and institutes provide creative, collaborative spaces that extend academic exploration and creative development beyond the classroom. Students work side by side with faculty to generate groundbreaking work that challenges traditional approaches to problems and their solutions. We want to get to know you through your application, hear your voice, and explore your potential. We hope you get to know yourself better through the application process, too.
Whether you decide to apply to Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the College of Performing Arts, The New School for Social Research, the Schools of Public Engagement, or Parsons Paris, you will have the opportunity to explore courses across the colleges that make up our university, crossing disciplines and charting your unique academic path.
We recognize that the application process might seem challenging. Selecting the right school is an important decision. Our college admission team is available to help you navigate this critical journey and make a choice that will affect your intellectual and creative potential in profound ways.
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