The New School has been a leader in progressive education since our founding in 1919. Today we are the only comprehensive university that integrates a major design school with renowned schools in liberal arts, social sciences, and performing arts. An open relationship between disciplines allows us to supplement our core academic essentials of communication literacy, critical thinking, and empirical reasoning with collaborative project-based learning and making. Our unique curriculum prepares New
School students to solve problems in creative and innovative ways, see patterns where others don't, and become lifelong reflective learners who lead with a contextually relevant and socially aware orientation. Steeped in these shared capacities, our
students graduate ready to succeed in a rapidly evolving world that values ideas, solutions, and the people who create them.