OVERVIEW

Now is the time to use intellect and action to make a critical impact on the world.

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School is an academic space like no other. Designed for courageous intellectuals, our curriculum is as flexible, current, and bold as our community. At Lang, students learn to investigate new ideas by asking big questions. They break from convention, studying and collaborating across all schools and colleges at The New School, including a renowned design school, a stellar performing arts college, and world-famous graduate schools. This integrated approach to liberal arts places Lang students at the forefront of theory, practice, and global innovation.

Small classes, a commitment to social justice, and our location in the heart of New York City help us constantly reimagine college education. Students here don’t retreat from the world. They engage with it.

1 of 5 colleges in our university

1,880 Number of students at Lang

9:1 Average student-to-faculty ratio at The New School

WHO WE ARE

For a century now, The New School has been a renowned, socially engaged university and a hub for new, groundbreaking ideas and the people that generate them.

Students at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts are direct inheritors of The New School’s tradition of working for change. Inspired by academic freedom that transcends traditional boundaries, our students go out and create real change even before graduation.

A COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITY

Every day, scholars at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts benefit from being part of The New School, the only university where a world-famous design school, Parsons School of Design, comes together with forward-looking colleges that include the College of Performing Arts, The New School for Social Research, and more. This unique position allows our students to take classes and declare minors across the university, conduct interdisciplinary research, and collaborate in new and unexpected ways.