Welcome to Parsons. We’re designing a world you want to live in. Parsons School of Design—consistently ranked the #1 art and design school in the United States and #3 globally—has sent changemaking artists and designers out into the world since its founding more than 120 years ago. Today we’re part of The New School, a comprehensive university in New York City offering programs in subjects ranging from the liberal arts and humanities to public policy and more. Parsons is now integrated with our performing arts colleges—Mannes School of Music, the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, and the School of Drama—which offers a universe of new learning pathways and opportunities for creative collaboration. What does learning here look like? We champion radical experimentation. We ask bold questions with no easy answers. We see failure as a stepping stone to innovation and a life in art, design, and business. We make interdisciplinary practice relevant to society today. We partner with forward-thinking people and organizations. The “New” in “The New School” reminds us to stay ahead of changes in the world and fearlessly imagine what could be. The New School 2
We create in ways that improve the world by— • Focusing on people, biodiversity, and our ecosystem • Collaborating on processes that build inclusion, equity, empathy, and justice • Understanding that materials matter in a world facing climate change and calling for innovative ways of working • Employing the power of art, design, and creative media, technology, and management to foster community health, wellness, and justice
Our community is diverse and international. We come from around the world and enrich learning with our own backgrounds, traditions, perspectives, and practices. You’ll find creative peers—queer and gender nonconforming, secular and religious, extroverted and introverted, politically astute and politically questioning, representing all ethnic and class backgrounds—in every classroom. The city is your classroom. Courses take you out into one of the world’s most dynamic, creative, and innovative urban centers: New York City. You work directly with NYC’s groundbreaking people and organizations, draw on materials and resources found only here, and experience work whose impact reverberates worldwide. And to expand your global perspective, you can study at Parsons Paris, our Paris campus; learn with our study abroad partners; or take a course taught overseas.
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5,600+ total Parsons enrollment (4,300+ undergraduate, 1,300 graduate)1
#1 art and design school in the United States and #3 in the world2
“I started to look at the world completely differently through my education.” The New School
— Sea Briganti, BFA Product Design ’14; founder of the sustainable products firm Loliware
• First U.S. school to offer study programs in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, lighting design, and media studies and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration in design •O nly U.S. art and design school within a major research university
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“ The whole university is committed to breaking down silos and rules to arrive at a better future faster.” — Joel Towers, president of The New School and University Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design
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A COMMUNITY THAT EXTENDS BEYOND CAMPUS
You will meet peers and have the chance to form communities in various ways—in classes, school-led events, and clubs and organizations, including ones focused on school governance, student publications, and special interests and affiliations. Exercise classes, wellness activities, and sports also enrich your social life. International students have access to support from our International Student and Scholar Services team, who help admitted students with everything from getting visa paperwork together to finding community on campus. Parsons alums are a vital part of your new community. They’re active in NYC, in Paris, and in 112 countries around the world. Reunions and school events invite graduates back to campus to socialize, share their experience, and help current students find internships and jobs.
“The value of being at Parsons and involving the NYC community is that people here engage with new tools and begin thinking about how to make them more relevant to the world today.” — Jeongki Lim, associate professor of strategic design and management
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“Being surrounded by creatives in a city known for its diversity, innovation, and vibrancy encourages me to keep creating, keep exploring, and keep improving.”
Our students on community: In a recent Parsons collaborative project with Common Era, a nonprofit organization, students explored ideas about belonging and community. Learn more:
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a home in nyc
Parsons isn’t just in New York City—it’s in Greenwich Village, a dynamic center of artistic life. Known for the groundbreaking galleries, literary cafés, cinemas, and jazz venues that fill its tree-lined streets, the Village has drawn freethinkers from all over for decades. The setting creates the feeling that inspiration and innovation are just around the corner. If you want to explore further, you can take advantage of major subway hubs minutes from your building or residence hall. If you’re studying online, you benefit from access to the city through coursework and faculty who bring in industry professionals, resources, and creative challenges specific to NYC. Parsons’ many connections to city partners—sustainability experts at the United Nations, curators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, programmers at DOC NYC, speakers at our public programs, and Google leaders, to name a few—give you access to changemakers and rare opportunities to work on realworld projects. The city becomes your classroom, with its creative leaders as your professors.
NYC HIGHLIGHTS 01 Apollo Theater (off-map) 02 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 03 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 04 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 05 Lincoln Center 06 Carnegie Hall 07 The Museum of Modern Art
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THE MAKING CENTER: HOLDING SPACE FOR CREATIVITY
Making is how we learn and bring ideas to life. It’s how we develop everything from computer games and documentaries to hand-sewn clothes to new businesses and blogs about policy or streetwear. At Parsons, making happens everywhere—in classroom discussions, out in Union Square, during study abroad research, all over campus. To give our community the space and tools needed for all forms of creativity, we carved out a total of 78,000 square feet on whole floors throughout campus. Called the Making Center, the facilities house ample studios, lightfilled workspaces, and stations equipped with traditional and contemporary tools for all media. You can gather there with peers day or night, check out selected equipment for off-campus work, and purchase materials such as wood, clay, and pattern paper for use in the Making Center. Making Center technicians oversee safe making spaces that include a wide range of tools and resources—including woodworking hand tools, CNC routers and laser etchers, ceramics equipment, sewing machines and looms, and photo, video, and printmaking tools. Here you can transform your concepts into finished work. Learn more: newschool.edu/parsons/making-center
“My favorite time in the Making Center is morning, when it’s sunny and clear; you can see the Empire State Building just up Fifth Avenue.” —Eva, technician, Wood and Metal Shops
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An expansive studio lets Photography students stage anything from a sprawling group portrait to an intimate still life to document work for their portfolios. Printers output photos onto fabric and on paper up to 58 inches by 120 inches in size. A dedicated space lets you check color and mount images. You can also explore analog photo processing in our renovated darkroom (see opposite page).
At one end of the Making Center are 3D printers handling materials ranging from clay to traditional filaments. At the other end are hand and power tools that let you cut, drill, bend, route, lathe, and sand wood—one of the most sustainable materials available—and work in metal.
Making Center Stores & Equipment Checkouts • Canon EOS DSLR cameras • Brooklyn Red multipurpose clay • Rives BFK rag paper • Shoemaking heel shanks • Structure handheld 3D scanners • Copper intaglio printmaking plates • ¾” Baltic birch plywood • PLA and TPU 3D printer fiber • Cold-rolled 18 gauge sheet steel • Bookbinding awl
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future in the making
From your first days in a Parsons undergraduate program, you’re in the Making Center, being trained in using tools and getting acquainted with new techniques and your fellow students. You work with your hands, experimenting with peers and learning about the impact of materials on your creativity—and on the planet. Hands-on learning is a key part of your Parsons education, and it’s often the way you refine your concepts and discover media and tools you’ve never worked with before. For those in a graduate program, the Making Center provides space to collaborate and equipment for working on complex and even larger projects. In many ways, the Making Center also offers you an immersion in daily life as a working design professional, in which collaborating with others—including technicians and team members—is how projects get done. At Parsons, making often begins with and results in research, and our libraries, computer labs, archives, research centers, audio editing suites, and on-campus exhibitions support your learning. Want to work with new sustainable materials? You can research them in the library, work with them in the Making Center, and see experiments by other makers in our galleries. Interested in the history of environmentalism in interior design? You can find documents in The New School Archives and explore non-toxic building supplies at Parsons’ Healthy Materials Lab.
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Our motion capture studio—equipped with green screens, cameras and sensors, and a CPU station for OptiTrack—is where the future of gaming, animation, and XR work is being workshopped.
Making sustainably: Find free discarded making materials at the Making Center’s N2 Woodshop, by the University Center’s first-floor elevators, and on the Free Shelf in room UC506.
casting, throwing, and hand-forming work occupy one half of a Making Center floor; in the other, printmakers work with silkscreens and stone, metal, and wood plates.
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Elle McDougald BBA Strategic Design and Management
Anthony Isaac MFA Industrial Design
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Juan Diego Silva-Zúñiga MA Media Studies
Eres-Ever Portman BFA Integrated Design
Chatwan Mongkol
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Leonard Hsiung BFA Fashion Design
Jiahao Li MA Fashion Studies
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Costas Constantinides BFA Design and Technology
Ross Myren MArch Architecture
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Sage Won BFA Communication Design
Ting-en Tsai BFA Illustration
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Briah Taubman BFA Fashion Design
Vanessa Clement BFA Product Design
Grant Hao-Wei Lin MFA Photography
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Amal Flower Kay BFA Design History and Practice
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Hualei Yu MFA Fashion Design and Society
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Migena Molla BFA Interior Design
Evelina Nolin MFA Fine Arts
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Alexandria Riesberg BFA Photography
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Greer Bateman MA History of Design
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Peter Min Soub Sim MFA Industrial Design
Summer Payton MFA Interior Design
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James Tonra BFA Illustration
Christian Meldrum MFA Lighting Design
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Your faculty mentors
Our award-winning instructors are essential partners in helping you explore disciplines and career options. They bring their real-world experience and contacts into the classroom, allowing you to take your work to the forefront of creative practice and make it relevant to the world today. They share new insights, techniques, and opportunities, energized by the city and by the university’s mission to make our future more equitable and sustainable through innovative creative thought and action. Faculty learn alongside students, respecting all points of view and experiences. They are committed to seeing students thrive.
10:1 student-to-faculty ratio
Some Recent Faculty Awards • MacArthur Fellowship Lauren Redniss • Guggenheim Fellowship Selena Roy Kimball, Arthur Ou, Ben Thorp Brown, Andrea Geyer, Ester Partegàs • Fulbright Scholarship J. Michelle Hill • A rchitect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Award Andrew Bernheimer/Bernheimer Architecture, David J. Lewis/LTL Architects • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant Anthony Aziz • LIT Lighting Design Lifetime Achievement Award Craig Bernecker • Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice $2.5 million Study Award Joel Towers • Creative Capital Award Jonah Groeneboer
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Recent Books by Faculty • The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion by Otto von Busch • The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection by Kelly Walters, Jennifer Rittner, and collaborators • Diaries of War by Nora Krug • Fashion in American Life by Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters • Design and Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures by Marisa Morán Jahn • Sustainability and the Fashion Media: Spectatorship, Affect and Social Change by Morna Laing • DUMBO: The Making of a Neighborhood and the Rebirth of Brooklyn by Paul Goldberger
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A launchpad for success
Parsons prides itself on preparing graduates for a changing world. Instead of just training you in using specific tools, we cultivate curiosity and develop your problem-solving skills and a love of research, experimentation, and collaboration to take with you into your next chapter. For some, that involves work settings that call for creative innovators. For others, it leads to entrepreneurial start-ups that improve the world. Others use their Parsons education as a foundation for graduate studies here or at respected universities worldwide. Learn more: newschool.edu/parsons/after-parsons A Few Parsons Changemakers • Edward Hopper (Fine Art ’06), fine artist and commercial illustrator • Willi Smith (CGRD Fashion Design ’69), fashion designer • Sea Briganti (BFA Product Design ’10), Shark Tank winner and founder of the compostable dishware brand Loliware • Kevin Kwong (BFA Photography), author and screenwriter of Crazy Rich Asians • Marc Jacobs (BFA Fashion Design ’84), fashion designer and activist • Sheila Bridges (AAS Interior Design ’93), interior designer, TV personality, and entrepreneur • Lulu Men (Media Management ’20), producer of the Academy Award–winning documentary American Factory •R obert Wong (BFA Communication Design ’90), chief creative officer at Google Creative Lab •E mily Adams Bode Aurjla (BA Philosophy ’13/BFA Fashion Design ’13), designer and founder of BODE sustainable fashion •M aryellis Bunn (BBA Strategic
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Design and Management ’14), founder of the Museum of Ice Cream • Donna Karan (BFA Fashion Design ’87), fashion designer and philanthropist • Ai Weiwei (MFA Fine Arts ’83), fine artist and activist • Shih-Ching Tsou (MA Media Studies ’10), film producer, director, and actor
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School specifically because of its reputation for being socially conscious and civically engaged.” — Vladan Nikolic, professor of media studies and independent film director and producer
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• Habitat for Humanity
• Harvard University
• Soul Cycle
• Pratt Institute
• NBCUniversal
• Stanford University
• U.S. Office of Personnel
• Carnegie Mellon University
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• Rhode Island School of Design
• Perkins&Will
• School of Visual Arts
• Marvel
• Yale University
• Nike
• University of Stockholm
• NAACP Legal Defense and
• Central Saint Martins (University
Education Fund, Inc. • Meta • BMW • Netflix • Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) • Madewell • Boston Mayor’s Office • Amazon • Prada • Tillotson Design Associates • Samsung • Gucci Group • Mexico City Human Rights Commission • Condé Nast • Pentagram • BBC Studios America
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“ Instructors challenged me to find my own creative voice and keep pushing boundaries and keep my eyes open.” — Jamie Drake, BFA Environmental Design ’78; founder of the interior design firm Drake/ Anderson
that advanced my career opportunities but also broadened my perspective.” — Ellie Frymire, MS Data Visualization ’19;
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learning beyond the classroom
Anyone who is creative knows that learning and inspiration are everywhere. Here learning happens while you’re exploring start-ups at the nearby farmer’s market, posting on social media for breakout fashion firms, and experimenting with new regenerative materials over the summer. These opportunities include internships (nearly all students undertake at least one while studying), study abroad or with global organizations, and work with industry partners.
Internships Your academic and career advisor can help you find positions that complement your studies, allow you to develop industry-ready skills, and open up paths to employment. New York City is home to leading companies, cultural organizations, and nonprofits that hire creative people of all disciplines. Our team places students with groundbreakers like Nike, HBO, The Trevor Project, Tory Burch, NBC Sports Group, and the International Rescue Committee (IRC). newschool.edu/parsons/internships
Study Abroad Parsons helps you expand your global awareness through study abroad programs and partnerships that give you international perspectives and experience. You can undertake short-term to year-long stays overseas at Parsons Paris and other institutions. Courses and extracurricular projects featuring international partners and instructors extend your network and options. newschool.edu/parsons/study-abroad
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“In my internship at EILEEN FISHER, I got a good overview of fashion production cycles and also how my creative work on campus.” — Lucy Jones, BFA Fashion Design ’15; CEO of the lifestyle brand FFORA
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Industry Partnerships Parsons’ premier position within NYC’s creative community means that you’re supported by our universe of makers, strategists, scholars, and entrepreneurs. Faculty members and advisors help you channel your growing set of skills toward real-world needs and creative challenges like those you will find in work settings. Industry partnerships build your abilities and expose you to people, organizations, and tools that broaden your career horizons. newschool.edu/parsons/industry-engagement
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• Adobe
• WantedDesign
• Roblox
• KEDS
• United Nations
• NYC Department of Transportation
• LG AI Research
• Blu Dot
• NASA
• AARP
• NYCxDesign
• Centre Pompidou
• Trust for Governors Island
• Brompton
• Amorim Cork
• IKEA
• Fondation Azzedine Alaïa
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Rockwell Group
• Notion
• Stonewall National Monument
• Teen Vogue
Visitor Center
• MM6 Maison Margiela
• Aquafil
• Fresh
• BioDesign
• Areaware
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Pfizer
• Microsoft
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Housing Our residence halls and other university facilities are clustered around Parsons’ buildings, so you have ready access to computer labs, the Making Center, and our 24-hour University Center, which houses the cafeteria and the art and design library. Our dorms offer a safe environment and facilities including free laundry machines, and residence hall staff organize many social, educational, and cultural activities. All first-year full-time undergraduates at our NYC campus must live in on-campus housing, at newly reduced rates, unless they meet waiver eligibility. For details, visit newschool.edu/housing. Dedicated housing is also provided for graduate students. Some students choose to live in off-campus apartments.
FINANCIAL AID Parsons’ comprehensive financial aid program provides competitive meritbased scholarships and need-based aid for those who qualify. All applicants, including international students, are automatically considered for merit aid. We also participate in government grant, loan, and work-study programs as well as programs for veterans of the U.S. armed services. Some graduate programs offer special fellowships and teaching assistantships; you can speak with an admission counselor or program director to learn what is available. For more information on financing your education, visit newschool.edu/studentfinancial-services and email questions to sfs@newschool.edu. The New School 48
“The school’s energy is endlessly inspiring.” — Alvaro Velosa, Master of Architecture ’14; designer at Bjarke Ingels Group
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Your next steps
There’s much more to Parsons than what’s described in these pages. Explore our website and social media to learn more. If you’re planning to apply, prepare a portfolio and consider the following tips from our admission team.
First Impressions: Preparing a Portfolio Members of our admission committee want to know how you approach creativity and academics. For most applicants,¹ the portfolio is the primary way of showing your skills, who you are, and what inspires you.
Portfolio Tips • Choose pieces that demonstrate your technical and conceptual abilities. • Create new portfolio work to present a cohesive picture of who you are, the process you follow, and the media you use. • Take the time to document (photograph, edit, render, etc.) and sequence portfolio pieces. • Help reviewers understand your work by adding titles, dimensions, media, and short descriptions (including information on whether you collaborated on a work or used special tools like AI software). • Set aside your portfolio for a few days and then review it again to ensure it’s ready.
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For information on preparing an undergrad portfolio, visit newschool.edu/ parsons/portfolio-help. If you’re a graduate program applicant, you can find instructions specific to your program at newschool.edu/parsons/portfoliorequirements-graduate. Want feedback on your portfolio before applying? Join us at an in-person or virtual National Portfolio Day event or schedule a campus visit. To find admission events, visit newschool.edu/parsons/admission-events.
Apply Ready to apply? We can help! Staff in Admission and in International Student and Scholar Services provide ongoing enrollment support. Visit newschool.edu/ parsons/apply.
Meet Our Admission Team Contact our admission team online or introduce yourself at an admission is the best first step. Admission appointments and other in-person and virtual events help you learn more and take your next steps. 212.229.5150 or 800.292.3040 admission@newschool.edu newschool.edu/admission/contact
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PROGRAMS & STUDY OPTIONS
From the moment you begin as an undergraduate, you’re part of the First-Year Experience, in which you discover new tools and techniques and encounter ideas, classes, and people who challenge you to go beyond convention and your comfort zone. Never used a power drill before? You will in your first semester. Haven’t defended your creative ideas in front of others? You’ll get help doing that, too. Not sure that group work is interesting? It is when your teammates speak four languages between them and are designing voting reforms. If you’re considering a graduate degree, you may be more interested in our unique programs and changemaking faculty. You’ll also want to explore resources like our studios and tools, extensive libraries, and interdisciplinary research centers, where you can work hands-on with peers and faculty from a range of disciplines—much as you’ll do in the workplace. Shown at right are Parsons’ interdisciplinary degree programs, which span established art and design disciplines as well as emerging ones including strategic design and new media.
Dual-Degree Study: BA/BFA If you want to combine in-depth study of art and design and the liberal arts, consider our five-year BA/BFA (sometimes called “BAFA”) pathway, in which you earn a BA at The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and a BFA at Parsons. newschool.edu/babfa
“ In the first year, you have to keep going when you make mistakes; there’s no time to go back and redo. You learn to trust yourself.” —Emily Nachbauer, BA Psychology/BFA Photography ’21
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DEGREE PROGRAMS Architectural Design BFA Architecture MArch Architecture and Lighting Design Dual Degree MArch/MFA Art, Media, and Technology BFA¹ Communication Design BFA, MPS Data Visualization MS Design and Technology BFA, MFA Design History and Practice BFA Fashion Design BFA Fashion Design and Society MFA Fashion Design and the Arts MFA¹ Fashion Management MPS Fashion Studies MA Fine Arts BFA, MFA History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA
Illustration BFA Industrial Design MFA Integrated Design BFA Interior Design BFA, MFA Interior Design and Lighting Design Double Major MFA Lighting Design MFA Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship BA, BS Media Management MS, graduate certificate Media Studies MA Photography BFA, MFA Product Design BFA Strategic Design and Management BBA, MS Textiles MFA Transdisciplinary Design MFA newschool.edu/parsons/academics
Minors enable you to explore your interests, acquire new skills, and stand out on job and graduate school applications. newschool.edu/academics/minors
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SUMMER INTENSIVES Summer Intensive Studies in New York allows pre-college students (ages 16– 18) and college and adult students to experience Parsons' curriculum through immersive, hands-on studio learning. Over the course of three weeks, students work closely with expert faculty and industry guest speakers to create original work, build their portfolios, and earn three college credits. Pre-college students get a sense of the Parsons college experience and have opportunities to connect with the Parsons Admission team and explore next steps after high school. newschool.edu/parsons/intensives-and-summer-programs
PARSONS ACADEMY Parsons Academy enables students in grades 3 through 12 to explore fashion, art, and design in New York City through challenging noncredit courses. Programs include Saturday classes in the fall and spring as well as a two-week summer program. Online courses are also available for high school students seeking to develop their portfolios and prepare for college admission. newschool.edu/parsons/youth-pre-college-programs
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WE ARE THE NEW SCHOOL Since its founding in 1919, The New School has been a center of independent thought, dialogue, and action. We are a community that applies integrative approaches to global problems and leads the systemic change needed to make the world more equitable, more sustainable, and better designed for all. Today our university is made up of colleges offering courses in art, design, media, and performing arts and in the liberal arts and social sciences.
Get in touch and take the next step Contact our team, learn about admission requirements, attend an admission event, or make an appointment.
Contact the Office of Admission 212.229.5150 x2 or 800.292.3040 x2 thinkparsons@newschool.edu
For important information including accreditation, student rights, campus safety statistics, and tuition and fees, visit newschool.edu/your-right-to-know. Published 2026 by The New School. The New School is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Photo credits: David Barron, Chris Eckert, James Ewing, Ben Ferrari, Michelle Gevint, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images, Matthew Mathews, The New School, Jacob Arthur Pritchard, Martin Seck, Matthew Septimus, Michael Kirby Smith, Phillip Van Nostrand. This brochure is printed on 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper with UV inks that conserve energy and material and do not release VOCs into the atmosphere—reflecting the university’s embrace of environmental responsibility.