Cooper Union

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Everything we know

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About

instance of	college private not-for-profit educational institution
inception	1859
founder	Peter Cooper
native label	Cooper Union
industry	higher education
language used	English
academic calendar type	semester

Location and contact

country	United States
located in the administrative territorial entity	Manhattan
location	Cooper Union Foundation Building
street address	7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003 · object of statement has role: library 29 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10003 · object of statement has role: dormitory 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003 · object of statement has role: headquarters 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10008 · object of statement has role: office 21 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY 10003
postal code	10003-7120
coordinate location	40.7293, -73.9906
official website	https://cooper.edu/ · language of work or name: English

People and numbers

count of students	875 · sourcing circumstances: near · 2010s
employees	436 · September 2020
admission rate	18% · 2020
admission yield rate	50% · 2020

Rankings and recognition

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	baccalaureate colleges: diverse fields very high undergraduate postbaccalaureate: arts & sciences-dominant four-year, very small, primarily nonresidential four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in professions plus arts & sciences, high graduate coexistence
heritage designation	National Register of Historic Places listed place · criterion used: A · subject named as: Cooper Union · subject has role: NRHP building · since 15 October 1966 New York City Landmark · since 15 March 1966 National Historic Landmark · subject named as: Cooper Union · since 4 July 1961 New York State Register of Historic Places listed place · since 23 June 1980

Finances

endowment	$867,509,372 · 30 June 2020
total assets	$1,117,500,055 · 30 June 2020
funder	Open Society Foundations · prize money: $50,000 · award rationale: to provide general support · 2022 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $52,000 · award rationale: to support The Cooper Union School of Art's Intra-Disciplinary Seminar, a series of lectures, open to and free for the public, by artists, theorists, activists, designers, writers, curators and other practitioners involved in the arts from positions that embody an interdisciplinary approach or that imply new uses for disciplinary traditions · 2021

Structure and memberships

has part(s)	Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · 1896–1 July 1968 Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
owner of	41 Cooper Square

Other facts

official shop URL	https://store.cooperunion.com/ · language of work or name: English
significant event	mixed-sex education · since 1859

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (3)

image	Cooper Union by David Shankbone.jpg
logo image	Cooper Union.svg
spoken text audio	Wikipedia Audio - Cooper Union (Overview & History).wav · language of work or name: English · recording date: 2018

Wikimedia and technical details (5)

Commons category	Cooper Union
topic's main category	Category:Cooper Union
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Cooper Union alumni
described by source	Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition · statement is subject of: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Cooper Union The American Cyclopædia · statement is subject of: The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Cooper, Peter Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921 · statement is subject of: Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cooper Union The New Student's Reference Work · statement is subject of: The New Student's Reference Work/Cooper, Peter
social media followers	13,320 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 31585636 · 3 February 2023 9,540 · YouTube channel ID: UCdZoogU41DBdMWbqRqeHlVg · 20 September 2025 Earlier figures (3) 13,399 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 31585636 · 1 March 2022 13,161 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 31585636 · 3 January 2021 12,665 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 31585636 · 19 April 2020

Identifiers in other databases (49)

BIBSYS ID	99022235
Canadiana Name Authority ID	ncf10120965
CANTIC ID	981058514473106706
CRIS Unique Site Number	06101.000441
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Facebook username	cooperunion
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GND ID	50320-4
GRID ID	grid.254672.0
Harper's tag	cooper-union-for-the-advancement-of-science-and-art
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID	organization/720895962150
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Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID	190372
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ISNI	0000000121702034
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Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID	50320-4
Libraries Australia ID	36524444
Library of Congress Authorities ID	n80051138
LittleSis organization ID	57888
LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID	ny0359
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	8031829
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New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID	0202
New York Times topic ID	organization/cooper-union-for-the-advancement-of-science-and-art
NRHP reference number	66000540
NYC Building Identification Number (BIN)	1008788
Open Funder Registry funder ID	100014532
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SNARC ID	Q97802
Union List of Artist Names ID	500303899
Vatican Library VcBA ID	494/16814
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WordNet 3.1 Synset ID	03108333-n
X (Twitter) username	cooperunion · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 12,665 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 31585636 · 19 April 2020
Yelp ID	the-cooper-union-new-york
YouTube channel ID	UCdZoogU41DBdMWbqRqeHlVg · subject named as: The Cooper Union · number of works: 731 · number of subscribers: 9,540 · number of viewers/listeners: 740,130 · 21 September 2025
‎Scilit organization ID	2523
‎Yale LUX ID	group/bfb480f2-0ae9-4241-b33e-479b84bc2637