Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Data & Information Overview

Find out more about how Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ranks, how diverse it is, what majors it offers, and other essential facts below. Want to know more about a specific stat? Just click on its tile, and you'll go to a page that goes more in-depth on that subject. You can also use the links below to go directly to any section on this page.

• Rankings
• Admission and Acceptance
• Faculty
• Retention and Graduation Rates
• Diversity
• Cost
• Student Debt
• Average Earnings
• Location
• Majors
• Online Learning
• Related Schools

How Well Is Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Ranked?

2021 Rankings

College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art was awarded 14 badges in the 2021 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is fine and studio arts.

Overall Quality

College Factual ranked Cooper Union as #338 out of 1,715 colleges and universities in the country on its 2021 Best Colleges list.

Cooper Union also holds the #36 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Cooper Union?

Acceptance Rate

With an acceptance rate of 13%, Cooper Union is one of the most selective schools in the country. Good grades and high test scores alone may not be enough to get you into the school, so do your best to submit a stellar application.

Average Test Scores

About 70% of students accepted to Cooper Union submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 650 and 740. Math scores were between 660 and 790.

Cooper Union received ACT scores from 40% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 28 and 34.

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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Faculty

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Cooper Union it is much better at 9 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.

The full-time faculty percentage at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is 18%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.

Retention and Graduation Rates at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Freshmen Retention Rate

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art has a freshmen retention rate of 96%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.

Graduation Rate

The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Cooper Union for first-time, full-time students is 64%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.

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Excellent Overall Diversity at Cooper Union

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 857 undergraduates at Cooper Union with 854 being full-time and 3 being part-time.

Cooper Union Diversity Score

When calculating the overall diversity score for a school, College Factual does not just look at the percentage of women and racial-ethnic minorities*. Instead, it looks to see how good of a mixture a school has with regard to gender, ethnicity, age, and location of origin.

With an overall score of 88.96 out of 100, Cooper Union is one of the most diverse schools in the nation.

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How Much Does Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Cost?

The overall average net price of Cooper Union is $15,524. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Cooper Union

$0-30 K	$30K-48K	$48-75	$75-110K	$110K +
$8,252	$9,215	$9,419	$18,403	$33,544

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Cooper Union, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Cooper Union, approximately 25% of students took out student loans averaging $4,906 a year. That adds up to $19,624 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Cooper Union is 5.8%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

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How Much Money Do Cooper Union Graduates Make?

The pay for some majors is higher than others, but on average, students who graduate with a bachelor's degree from Cooper Union make about $64,900 a year during their first few years of employment after graduation. This is good news for future Cooper Union graduates since it is 63% more than the average college graduate's salary of $39,802 per year.

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Location of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a private not-for-profit institution situated in New York, New York. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

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Contact details for Cooper Union are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	7 East 7Th Street, New York, NY 10003-7120
Phone:	212-353-4100
Website:	www.cooper.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/cooperunion
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/cooperunion

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 7 majors graduated from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Of these students, 180 received undergraduate degrees and 41 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts	47	$21,600
Electrical Engineering	40	NA
Mechanical Engineering	33	NA
Civil Engineering	20	NA
Chemical Engineering	17	NA
General Architecture	15	NA
General Engineering	8	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

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Related Schools

If you’re considering Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, here are some more schools you may be interested in knowing more about.

• Drexel University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of New Haven

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
• Image Credit: By Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.