Eight Schools, One University

The New School is a legendary, progressive university comprising eight schools bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 9,400 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. From its Greenwich Village campus, The New School launches economists and actors, fashion designers and urban planners, dancers and anthropologists, orchestra conductors, filmmakers, political scientists, organizational experts, jazz musicians, scholars, psychologists, historians, journalists, and above all, world citizens — individuals whose ideas and innovations forge new paths of progress in the arts, design, humanities, public policy, and the social sciences. In addition to offering 70 graduate and undergraduate degrees, the university offers certificate programs and more than 1,000 continuing education courses to 13,000 adult learners every year.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES

If one can imagine it, wonder about it, or aspire to it, it is probably taught at The New School for General Studies, America’s first university for adults. Here, you can complete a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts or a certificate program in one of six areas of expertise; earn a master’s in Media Studies, International Affairs, or Creative Writing; or take your pick of nearly 1,000 continuing education courses taught by scholars, artists, and other professionals who practice what they teach. At The New School for General Studies, an exhilarating and accommodating educational experience awaits every calling or curiosity at every stage of life.
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THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

The New School for Social Research is the graduate center for the core social sciences and philosophy that began its life in 1933 as the University in Exile, the legendary haven for refugee European scholars. Here, world peace and global justice are not theoretical ideals; they are the central, practical goals of every course of study. As demanding ethically as it is academically, The New School for Social Research awards master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology, economics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology, and offers interdisciplinary MA programs in historical studies and liberal studies. For those up to the task of aligning the world with the possible, there is no greater training ground than this venerable, ever-current institution.
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MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY

Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy hones the instincts and skills of graduate students and working professionals to the necessary edge for breaking higher ground in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Milano offers master’s degree programs in health services management and policy, human resources management, nonprofit management, organizational change management, and urban policy analysis and management; an esteemed doctoral program in public and urban policy; and highly focused professional development programs. Innovative, practical, and prescient, training at Milano turns new techniques and theory into prosperity and advancements in the ways people make things work.
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PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN

Parsons The New School for Design is one of the premier degree-granting college of art and design in the nation. Its graduates and faculty appear on the short list of outstanding practitioners in every realm of art and design — creative, management, and scholarly. Choice professional internships, interdisciplinary collaborations, and international study opportunities augment Parsons’ 23 undergraduate, graduate, and certificate offerings encompassing 34 areas of study. Responsive to societal needs and predictive of cultural trends, Parsons makes tangible, usable, and beautiful the New School mission of bringing positive, innovative change to the world.
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EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS

Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts provides an exceptional undergraduate experience for students for whom the traditional template of the ivory tower is too far removed from the issues and intrigues of the world at large. Under the mentorship of faculty advisors, recent high school graduates and young transfer students from around the world develop their own curricula within and across 12 paths of study: Cultural Studies and Media; Literature; Writing; the Arts; Philosophy; Psychology; History; Science, Technology, and Society; Social and Historical Inquiry; Urban Studies; Religious Studies; and Education Studies. With Greenwich Village as a campus and recognized scholars, writers, and artists as instructors, students at Lang enjoy a unique advantage over their peers at other institutions.
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MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC

Mannes College The New School for Music is a first-rate conservatory of classical music located in the preeminent American capital of classical music. Mannes provides a professional trajectory for the serious graduate or undergraduate student of music, nurturing preparatory instruction for children from 4 to 18 years of age, and classes for adult students at every level of proficiency, including beginners. The Mannes community is made of students from every corner of the world and instructors from the heights of the world of music: scholars, composers, conductors, and performing artists from some of the world’s most revered orchestras, ensembles, and opera companies. Mannes students are featured in most of the more than 400 concerts produced by the school each year at its two concert halls or at venues throughout the New York metropolitan area. An extraordinary level of training, opportunity, and exposure is the hallmark of Mannes The New School for Music.
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THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA

The New School for Drama takes talent and works, shapes, and nurtures it to an exquisite dimension of readiness for a life and career in the theater. The New School has a long and rewarding history of involvement with the theater. Artistic voices as distinctive as Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando found their singularity here, under the wing of Dramatic Workshop director Erwin Piscator and a faculty that included Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Today’s students are taught by a cadre of notable New York theater professionals to achieve that same authority of authenticity, as they work toward an MFA in Acting, Directing, or Playwriting. Classes are small, demanding, and gloriously rewarding. And with theater in the air and on its streets as surely as on its hundreds of stages, New York City provides an unrivaled curriculum in observation and an incalculable wealth of professional opportunity. At The New School for Drama, the aspirations of serious actors, directors, and playwrights are taken seriously and taken far.
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THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

Jazz. The only way to learn it is to live it. So that’s the way we teach it at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Through intensive study with master players in the center of the jazz universe, you’ll be immersed in the music’s traditions while being pushed to breach its boundaries with your own distinctive sound. Here, you can earn a BFA or a combined BA/BFA in conjunction with Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Faculty members are renowned professional musicians who will teach you as much about working as they will about playing, in small, ensemble classes augmented by exceptional performance and internship opportunities. New School Jazz fuses art, life, and education to produce a new breed of jazz, blues, and contemporary musician — artistically, professionally, and academically ready to take on the world.
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