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What Cooper Union grads actually do

Based on 399 notable Cooper Union alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

painter
122
artist
79
architect
48
sculptor
47
visual artist
30
writer
23
illustrator
23
photographer
22
designer
21
draftsperson
19
graphic designer
19
university teacher
16

Notable Cooper Union alumni

Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
screenwriter · engineer
Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan
illustrator · writer
Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban
architect · restorer
Linn Meyers
Linn Meyers
painter
Leonidas D. Marinelli
Leonidas D. Marinelli
inventor · radiologist
David Lynch
David Lynch
actor · lyricist
Grace Renzi
Grace Renzi
painter
Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli
painter · designer

Salary outlook for top Cooper Union career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr

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About Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France. The school was built on a radical new model of American higher education based on Cooper's belief that an education "equal to the best technology schools established" should be accessible to those who qualify, independent of their race, religion, sex, wealth or social status, and should be "open and free to all". The college is divided into three schools: the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. It offers undergraduate and master's degree programs exclusively in the fields of architecture, fine arts (undergraduate only), and engineering, with a shared core curriculum in the humanities and social sciences. The Cooper Union was one of very few American institutions of higher learning to offer a full-tuition scholarship to every admitted student, a practice it discontinued in 2014, instead offering a half-tuition scholarship to each admitted student. As of 2024, nearly half of its undergraduate students were attending on a tuition-free basis. In September 2024 the school announced that for the next four years, all students (including current students) would not pay tuition for their senior year.

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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