Parsons School of Design
Graduate Programs
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Architecture Architecture MArch MArch
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Communication Communication Design Design MPSMPS
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Data Data Visualization Visualization MS MS
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Design Design andand Technology Technology MFAMFA
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Design Design andand Urban Urban Ecologies Ecologies MS MS
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Fashion Fashion Design Design andand Society Society MFAMFA
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Fashion Fashion Management Management MPSMPS
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Fashion Fashion Studies Studies MA MA
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Industrial Industrial Design Design MFAMFA
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Interior Interior Design Design MFAMFA
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Lighting Lighting Design Design MFAMFA
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Photography Photography MFAMFA
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Strategic Strategic Design Design andand Management Management MS MS
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Textiles Textiles MFAMFA
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Transdisciplinary Transdisciplinary Design Design MFAMFA
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Second-year students in the MFA Fashion Design and Society program present their work publicly each year, attracting industry and press attention.
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Parsons School of Design—recently named the Best School for Art and Design in the United States and ranked third in the world1—has offered innovative approaches to education
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NOW MORE THAN EVER, DESIGN is DRIVing CHANGE. REIMAGINE THE FUTURE—AND the role DESiGN will play.
since its founding in 1896. Today we’re the only major American art and design school within a comprehensive university, The New School, which also houses a rigorous liberal arts college, an outstanding performing arts school, a legendary graduate school, and other renowned programs. Here you can master established creative practices or advance emerging ones and study a range of university disciplines. Surrounded by fresh perspectives and the university’s extensive resources, you research and practice in broader, deeper, and more forward-looking ways. And guided by Parsons’ faculty, you produce work that addresses human needs and responds to the call for innovation and change. Through creative and critical thought and action, you work to improve the world by design.
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Overview
A Legacy of Groundbreaking Work Parsons gives students the tools they need to achieve professional success and prepares them to think beyond current paradigms to develop human-centered solutions to the pressing problems of the day. Our students arrive here with diverse interests, perspectives, and backgrounds; they graduate prepared to critically and creatively address the need for change in an evolving world. Parsons has pioneered art and design education since its beginnings, championing new movements and teaching methods that have shaped generations of artists, designers, scholars, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Programs at Parsons are grouped into the following five schools:
» School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) » School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) » School of Constructed Environments (SCE) » School of Design Strategies (SDS) » School of Fashion (SOF) Parsons Graduate Programs
This organizational structure supports Parsons’ educational mission, and its interdisciplinary approach builds community among students and faculty in related disciplines.
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13,079 Total enrollment at The New School
3,055 Total graduate enrollment at The New School
6,328 Total enrollment at Parsons
956 Total graduate enrollment at Parsons
56 Percentage of international graduate students at Parsons
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10:1 Student-to-faculty ratio at Parsons
Parsons’ faculty of leading design practitioners, artists, critics, historians,
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A Distinguished Faculty, a Collaborative Approach writers, and scholars reflects the spectrum of art and design disciplines. Instructors collaborate with students to develop technologies and refine research methodologies, creating work that is relevant to contemporary social, cultural, and economic systems. By combining art and design studio curricula with instruction in liberal arts and business, Parsons faculty members prepare students to lead in a range of fields and to excel in their creative practice. newschool.edu/parsons/faculty
A Diverse Learning Community Parsons, like The New School as a whole, is committed to achieving greater diversity by building a community that represents a variety of identities, origins, beliefs, and academic and professional practices. Parsons students come from all 50 states and more than 100 countries, making the university one of the most geographically diverse in the United States. Cultivating a learning environment in which all can thrive requires respect relevant to academia. It also develops in students a valuable capacity for productive collaboration with individuals of different perspectives and backgrounds in an increasingly global workplace. At Parsons, tomorrow’s designers, artists, and strategists devise innovative, thoughtfully considered solutions to a range of problems, including social inequities and injustices.
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and an understanding of the many social, political, and economic contexts
An Urban Focus Cities are models of sustainable living because of the efficient resource use and forms of community life that are possible in densely populated areas. New York City is an ideal setting in which to study the ecologies of urban environments. The city also offers opportunities to explore emerging areas, such as the design of services and new entrepreneurial and business models. Parsons instructors are part of the city, too; most are working
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professionals who practice the disciplines they teach.
Parsons offers a comprehensive curriculum, providing students with many opportunities to collaborate across academic disciplines within a diverse intellectual community. And because Parsons is part of a large research university, students have access to courses in a range of subjects. Visit the university course catalog to see the variety of topics you can incorporate into your curriculum:
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TOP: Parsons Paris offers degree programs and short courses that apply Parsons’ renowned curriculum in the Parisian context. MIDDLE: The Parsons Festival is an annual event that includes exhibitions of student work in all disciplines. The festival brings together the academic community and the public to celebrate and explore design practice.
BOTTOM: Designers at Parsons’ PETLab gaming incubator and residents of St. Louis, Senegal, created a game to develop systems addressing climate-related disasters for the Red Cross/Red Crescent. Versions of the game have been tested in Namibia, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and the project was presented at the UN Climate Change Conference.
In addition to its graduate degrees, Parsons offers a variety of associate’s (AAS) degrees intended for mature students hoping to make a career change or add career-enhancing skills to their résumés. If you have a bachelor’s degree in an unrelated field and lack the formal training or
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degrees of difference
professional experience needed to be competitive for entry into a graduate degree program at Parsons, explore our AAS offerings at newschool.edu/ parsons-aas. Fields of study include Fashion Design, Communication Design, Interior Design, and Fashion Marketing and Communication. Graduate Minors In keeping with our commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and collaboration, The New School now offers graduate minors. These structured study pathways immerse you in disciplines outside of your primary field, expose you to alternative modes of research and practice, and broaden your skills and career options. Students in many of Parsons’ master’s programs have the option of completing a graduate minor in a complementary field, such as design studies or civic service design, or exploring other subjects and emerging interdisciplinary issues, such as impact entrepreneurship, global urban futures, and digital storytelling. newschool.edu/graduate-minors
Open Campus, The New School’s continuing education program, offers open enrollment courses with Parsons, enabling nondegree students of all ages to build portfolios, take art and design courses for credit or on a noncredit basis, or pursue certificates designed for career advancement. Intensive courses for undergraduate and graduate credit are offered each summer on the New York campus and in Parsons programs abroad. Some courses are offered online.
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Continuing studies through open campus
newschool.edu/parsons-continuing-studies newschool.edu/parsons-summer opencampus.newschool.edu Study Options at Parsons Paris The New School’s Parsons Paris campus offers courses, programs, and study abroad options, enabling students to benefit from our pioneering approach to learning in an intimate setting in a European capital. Our exclusive partnerships with the city’s premier art and design organizations, such as MAD (Musée des Arts Décoratifs), provide students with unique opportunities to broaden and enrich their learning. Parsons Paris offers a Master of Arts program in Fashion Studies. newschool.edu/parsons-paris Global Opportunities Parsons is a globally engaged school with a focus on international exchange. Enrich your education with diverse perspectives and applications of your learning in different contexts by taking advantage of study abroad offerings in cities including Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney, and Tokyo.
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Architecture M.ARCH Communication Design MPS Data Visualization MS Design and Technology MFA Design and Urban Ecologies MS Fashion Design and Society MFA Fashion management MPS Fashion Studies MA Fine Arts MFA
Industrial Design MFA Interior Design MFA Lighting Design MFA Photography MFA Strategic Design and Management MS textiles mfa Transdisciplinary Design Mfa Student work Gallery
FACING PAGE: Taylor Rodriguez, FitNest, product series and app. FitNest transforms rooms into exercise spaces through rearrangeable climbing holds, shelves, and grid panels that attach to walls, making them scalable. The app employs augmented reality to depict new climbing routes on the basis of the user’s preferred difficulty level. Complementing the wall and app are other FitNest implements that hold fitness gear, enable users to power devices through physical activity, and support tablets for viewing exercise videos.
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History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA
TOP: Students in the Design Workshop created new lockers and changing room pavilions for the Sunset Park Recreation Center and Pool in Brooklyn. BOTTOM: Jordana Maisie Goot and Mochi Liu, project for spring 2013 Housing Studio.
ARCHITECTURE m.ARCH The Master of Architecture (MArch)
The MArch curriculum focuses on
program is a three-year NAAB-accredited
contemporary issues directly affecting the
professional degree for students holding
field, ranging from new representational
a pre-professional undergraduate
techniques to sustainable built and natural
degree in architecture or a four-year
systems. It prepares students to enter the
nonarchitecture degree. New York City
professional architecture community and
provides students with a comprehensive
shape the built environment and the field. The MArch is a program within Parsons’
experience and explore the formal and
School of Constructed Environments
sociopolitical dimensions of architecture.
(SCE), alongside related degrees in
Students work with the NYC Department
interior, lighting, and product/industrial
of Parks and Recreation, the NYC Housing
design. In the SCE studio, members of
Authority, and studios addressing
the diverse student body collaborate on
environmental challenges presented by
complex design problems, from interiors
sea level rise and storm surge.
to comprehensive architectural volumes,
In the studio course sequence, students address demands imposed by use, site,
public spaces, and urban design. Graduates have gone on to open their
context, structure, and construction.
own practices and work in prominent firms,
Interdisciplinary electives in history, theory,
including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Rogers
and technology highlight architecture’s
Marvel Architects, LevenBetts, Bernheimer
pivotal role in shaping culture. Students can
Architecture, Gensler, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis,
choose electives offered in other programs
Matter Architecture Practice, Smith-Miller
throughout The New School. Courses draw
Hawkinson, and Young Projects. Others
on Parsons’ network of municipal and
have pursued advanced study in fields
institutional partners, local practitioners,
including engineering.
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context in which to develop design-build
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School of Constructed Environments
and commercial clients, providing students with internship, design competition, and
MArch/MFA Lighting Design Dual Degree
research funding opportunities.
Those who wish to pursue studies in lighting
Students in the Design Workshop design and construct—from schematics to punch list—a project for a nonprofit client. Established in 1996, the workshop embodies the progressive values of Parsons and The New School. It unites
design and architecture can apply to the dualdegree program, a four-year, 120-credit-hour curriculum that combines the NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture and the MFA in Lighting Design. Interested students should apply directly to the dual-degree program; they will automatically be considered for admission to the individual Master
theoretical and hands-on learning and trains
of Architecture and MFA Lighting Design programs
students to develop practices to improve
as well.
the social and physical environment. Past projects include a sustainable laundromat
Career paths include
and information center for Hurricane
Architecture
Katrina survivors, a rooftop garden with
Urban planning
educational and recreational facilities for
Landscape design
NYC community.
Interior design For information on professional licensure, please visit newschool.edu/provost/
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Bronx youth, and a pool pavilion for an
Programs
School of Art, Media, and Technology
Communication Design MpS In an increasingly digital world,
postlaunch critical analysis of user
designers are often challenged to create
experience (UX) and user interface (UI).
technology-driven products and services
The New York City location enables you
for a variety of platforms and human
to take advantage of the city’s diverse
needs. Parsons’ Master of Professional
technology and design resources while
Studies in Communication Design
learning alongside like-minded designers
(MPS CD), with a concentration in
in the Parsons community.
Digital Product Design, offers you the
You graduate from the program
cutting-edge conceptual design methods
with your own unique, forward-looking
and technical skills you need to meet
aesthetic anchored in professional skills
this growing marketplace demand.
and knowledge acquired throughout the
This program is tailored to practicing
program, which include entrepreneurship,
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designers seeking to enhance their digital
strategic working methodologies, and
skills and leadership potential as well
contemporary prototyping. You are prepared
as professionals with relevant design
for digital design work settings, with
experience who want to enter the field of
competence in various industry-standard
digital product design. It encompasses
technologies, including contemporary
the full product development cycle in
front-end development skills (HTML, CSS,
communication design—from idea
and JavaScript), and experience navigating
conception to prototyping to feedback-based
professional partnerships with teams
refinements—and familiarizes you with
and clients.
business strategy. In this one-year, 30-credit program, you
The MPS CD program is housed in Parsons’ School of Art, Media, and
develop creative problem-solving strategies
Technology, along with MFA Fine Arts, MFA
for relaying and translating messages,
Design and Technology, MFA Photography,
information, and ideas. The full-time course
and MS Data Visualization. You can
of study is built on four components:
supplement core courses with related
instruction in advanced core design
university-sponsored public programs and
competencies, practices and methods
an elective offered at Parsons or another
courses, external partnerships, and the
school or college of The New School, such
core studio sequence. Parsons faculty—
as a class in psychology, marketing, data
skilled at bringing together design thinking,
science, or another field.
aesthetics, and technology—guide you in exploring innovative composition and
Career paths include
visualization methods, interaction design,
Interaction design
typography, and industry best practices.
User interface (UI) design
The specialized course of study provides coding experience and involves the iterative process and a range of collaboration
User experience (UX) design Digital product design Product management
and teamwork strategies. You work from design conception and pitching through
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TOP: Diana Mejia, Compass. Using data about people’s favorite local sites, Compass generates travel routes that guide users to intriguing but often overlooked urban highlights. MIDDLE: Nikhil Misra, Is the New York Dream Still Real? Using this digital interface, users engage with the question of whether NYC is still a sanctuary for displaced people
by challenging them to guess the numbers of individuals accepted in recent years. They then record their estimates in a graph and compare it with one produced with official data. BOTTOM: Husani Barnwell, Power Up Fitness. This digital tool enables users to track workout goals, view lifting techniques in AR format, and connect with other gymgoers in real time.
TOP: Jonathan Thirkield, Visualizing Poetic Space: Mapping Dante’s Comedy. Thirkield’s 3D interactive tool is designed to help readers engage deeply with Dante’s Divine Comedy. The interface reimagines the poetic space of the literary classic using Javascript, the Three.js 3D library, and a MongoDB database. MIDDLE: Jacob Romer, Narrating Gender Inequality in Africa. Romer’s interactive digital tool enables users to see gender-related statistics for various nations. BOTTOM: A student presents her digital tool, created in a class partnership with the United Nations.
Data Visualization MS Parsons’ Master of Science in Data
The program’s setting in New York City,
Visualization is a multidisciplinary
a technological hub and pioneer of open-
program in which students develop skills
source culture, offers invaluable industry
bringing together visual design, computer
access. Students collaborate with industry
science, and statistical analysis.
leaders and external partners from the
The presentation of data plays a
New York City
School of Art, Media, and Technology
government, nonprofit, and commercial
critical role in the shaping of opinion,
sectors. Faculty invite guest lecturers and
policy, and decision making in today’s
critics to share their insights and expose
increasingly global society. Giving students
students to new possibilities in data
a competitive edge as they enter the field,
visualization and related career paths.
the MS program responds to the growing demand for experts who can turn data
Career paths include
into insight.
Data analysis Digital design Advertising and branding
year of full-time study or two years of
Journalism
part-time study. Housed in Parsons’ School
Business consulting and analytics
of Art, Media, and Technology, the program
Strategy management
integrates theory and studio practice,
Strategic planning
so that students acquire the creative,
Entrepreneurship
quantitative, and coding tools needed to
Social enterprise
analyze and depict data, gaining a holistic
Public policy
understanding of context, audience, and
Trend forecasting
objectives.
Business intelligence
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MS Data Visualization’s 30-credit curriculum can be completed in one
In the MS in Data Visualization, students obtain the diverse skill set needed to succeed in a range of data interpretation–related careers. Students graduate with portfolios demonstrating their ability to create databases and Web-based software tools that reflect an understanding of data analysis and information visualization for varied
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applications.
Programs
School of Art, Media, and Technology
DESIGN & TECHnology mFA Career paths
Designers today face two fundamental challenges: the
include
increasing influence of design within society and the
Creative technology
expanding role of technology within design. The Master
New media art
of Fine Arts in Design and Technology program provides a
Game design
lively environment in which to address these challenges.
Wearable technology
Working with peers in related programs, you explore a
Motion graphics
broad spectrum of creative disciplines, from fine art and
Digital filmmaking
photography to creative technology. The full-residency, two-year, 60-credit MFA in Design and Technology (MFA DT) curriculum is studio based, but
positions held by
critical thinking and study of the design process are central
Recent Graduates
to the program. Areas of practice include user experience
Open standards developer
and interaction design, physical computing, game design,
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Google+ Design analyst Frog Design Inc. Creative technologist Google Creative Lab Interaction designer IBM Design Creative technologist New York Times R&D Lab
new media art, digital fabrication, data visualization, statistical analysis, and critical design. Students develop their ideas through prototyping, synthesizing research and practice. Graduates embark on careers in creative, academic, commercial, and educational fields that engage with the growing influence of technology. In Collaboration Studio courses, students work with industry firms and nonprofits on real-world projects. Past partners include Apple, Eyebeam, Human Rights Watch, Mozilla, NASA, the Red
Senior UX design lead
Cross, Samsung, and the Whitney Museum of American
Microsoft Bing
Art. Students collaborate with peers from other schools
Interaction designer Disney Interactive Mobile interaction designer Nokia Research Center Beijing Creative manager Interbrand Founder and game designer Large Animal Games
and colleges of The New School, an urban university emphasizing civic engagement. MFA DT is housed in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons, alongside programs in Communication Design, Fine Arts, Photography, and Data Visualization. Students supplement core courses with electives offered throughout Parsons and other schools and colleges of The New School.
Installation Category finalist Adobe Design Achievement Awards
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TOP: Students prepare their installations for the MFA Design and Technology Exhibition at the Parsons Festival. MIDDLE: Su Zhang, Small World. Small World is an interactive pop-up book that engages children in learning about the water cycle, using AR and cell phones to transform the pages. BOTTOM: Ren Du, Echo. A soundscape that mimics the sound of rainfall through PVC pipes, plastic bags, and wire coils, Echo comments on the dangers of romanticizing nature. FACING PAGE: MFA DT students inspect their code for an interactive project.
TOP: Students conducting research in Brazil participated in a studio project, drawing on their design skills to develop collaborative urban initiatives. MIDDLE: An on-site visit sparked discussion of the impact of Brazil’s first housing cooperatives. Developing planning and design schemes for sustainable, equitable cities is central to the program’s course of study. BOTTOM: The Sunset Park Gazette, a community publication collaboratively developed by students and local residents. Students used their design skills to communicate about complex urban phenomena with audiences ranging from community members to academics to public officials.
design & urban ecologies ms The 60-credit Master of Science in Design
with contested territories affected by
and Urban Ecologies radically reframes
globalization, deindustrialization, migration,
the study of urban environments and
climate change, uneven development, and
design approaches to cities. Combining
shifts in urban policy and governance. A sequence of design studios connected
with activism and community practice,
to other courses enables students to
students gain the skills needed to
combine research, policy, planning, design,
address contemporary urban challenges.
and activism through civic, nonprofit, and
In accordance with The New School’s
public partnerships. Subjects explored
commitment to environmental and social
include external forces transforming
justice, students design and implement
low-income areas; privatization and
strategic projects to bring about change in
commodification of housing, health, and
urban environments on a global scale. This
public services; solidarity economies and
studio-driven program is part of Parsons’
cooperative practices; the social, economic,
School of Design Strategies (SDS).
and environmental impact of urban mobility;
The first of its kind in the United States,
public spaces and infrastructures in relation
the MS Design and Urban Ecologies program
to development and management shifts;
employs design as a methodology with
and the role of women-led efforts in
which to explore and counteract social,
advancing social and spatial justice.
economic, political, and environmental injustices within urban ecosystems. Using
Career paths include
world cities like New York as a laboratory,
Urbanism
students develop a deep understanding
Urban and regional planning
of the forces influencing urban decline,
Housing policy, development, and management
restructuring, and development. They work in teams—collaborating alongside and within the communities affected—to devise design strategies, spatial configurations,
Community organizing and development Public and urban policy Strategic design Development of social, cultural, and environmental enterprises
and infrastructures that lead to the
Urban research and analysis
transformation of social relations and urban
Nonprofit management
environments.
Neighborhood restructuring and planning
This two-year program brings together
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urban planning, policy, and design
New York City
School of Design Strategies
Government administration
students with diverse educational and professional backgrounds. They become agents of change by drawing on the academic strengths of Parsons and other New School colleges, including The New School for Social Research and the Schools of Public Engagement. Using innovative methodologies and guided by internationally recognized urbanists,
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designers, and activists, students engage
Programs
School of Fashion
fashion design & society mfa Career paths
This MFA program is the first graduate program of its
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kind in the United States. Both interdisciplinary and
Fashion design
international in scope, this program for advanced studies
Textile and knitwear design
in fashion design trains a small cadre of world-class
Fashion direction
designers, who develop a global understanding of fashion.
Curation Research
Innovative and progressive, the Fashion Design and Society master’s program offers students the opportunity to make substantive contributions—both professional
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and conceptual—to the field of fashion design. Students in this two-year, 60-credit program learn to consider design, production, and distribution cycles as well as the social, critical, ecological, and communication dimensions of fashion in self-directed projects supported by the
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fashion industry. Visiting professional practitioners
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such as photographers, art directors, artists, curators,
Le Monde (Paris)
choreographers, and business consultants engage regularly
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with students in their coursework and are central to the collaborative strength of the program. Graduate collections are presented at New York Fashion Week each September, attracting press, stylists,
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buyers, and other industry insiders. Students have won or
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placed as finalists for the LVMH Prize, Swarovski & Vogue
ID Magazine
Talent New Generation Award, International Woolmark
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Prize, International Talent Support (ITS) awards, VFILES, and H&M Awards. Graduates have gone on to work as designers at major companies including NIKE, Tory Burch, Oscar de la Renta,
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Under Armour, Alexander Wang, Jason Wu, JW Anderson,
Schön!
Theory, Marc Jacobs, Rag & Bone, Opening Ceremony,
Fashionista
Kanye West for Adidas, Ralph Lauren Collections, Everlane,
Collezioni Trends Marie Claire (U.S.) Textile World SO-EN (Japan)
St. John, Burberry, Donna Karan International, Calvin Klein, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, COACH, GAP, Reed Krakoff, and Narciso Rodriguez. In addition to working for top firms, many of our graduates go on to start their own high-profile labels and brands. The program was initiated with the support of Parsons alumna and designer Donna Karan and has received further support from major names in fashion such as LVMH, Kering, Diane von Furstenberg, the Swarovski Foundation, and UNIQLO.
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TOP: Selected looks from the 2017 Thesis Collections (Generation 6) by program graduates (from left to right): Zoe Champion, INLAY; NIHL (Neil Patrick Grotzinger), Masculine Effeminacies; Caroline Hu, That Moment.
ABOVE LEFT: Ruby Hoette ’12, graduate exhibition at Li & Fung, New York. ABOVE RIGHT: Yong Guo, Hualei Yu, Moana Mao, presentation board for Homeless But Not Hopeless, a fall 2017 Design Studio 1 collaboration with Rikers Island, NYC.
TOP: Faculty organize industry networking and knowledge-sharing events to enhance students’ educational and professional opportunities. A recent panel included Jeff Carvalho (left), managing director of HighSnobiety, and Christopher Lacy (right), program faculty member and former director of Customer Experience, Learning and Strategy at Barneys New York. MIDDLE: The evolving fashion retail landscape demands creative entrepreneurs who can help identify business opportunities, establish a brand voice, and develop compelling communications to consumers. BOTTOM: Project-based curricula bring together student teams to address aspects of fashion management, from research and product line development to supply chain planning and marketing and selling models.
FASHION MANAGEMENT Mps
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School of Fashion
The new master’s program in Fashion Management at Parsons prepares students to advance and transform
Career paths
their careers in the evolving fashion business landscape.
include
In this one-year Master of Professional Studies (MPS)
Fashion and brand management
program, students learn to challenge industry paradigms
Fashion styling
and develop groundbreaking concepts for fashion businesses, start-ups, and apparel-related services. Parsons’ MPS Fashion Management program guides students to consider the field of fashion as a system.
Fashion production Fashion editorial Merchandising Brand management Fashion marketing
The 12-month course of study challenges students to investigate a range of phenomena connected to the rapidly changing fashion industry, including technology,
online learning
innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, consumer
option
psychology, strategic management, and new business
The Fashion Marketing MPS
and start-up models. Students engage in conversations
has been designed to
on balancing creativity and commercial concerns,
accommodate the needs of
reinventing existing business systems, solving problems
working professionals around
sustainability and social responsibility at all levels of the industry. The program is designed to attract a dynamic cohort of working professionals with fashion industry experience and individuals with undergraduate degrees and backgrounds
the world. Parsons provides the opportunity to complete this degree entirely online, enabling you to take all of the courses remotely as part of a global learning community.
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related to social media and e-commerce, and promoting
in other disciplines related to retail and consumer goods industries. Students develop insights and strategies that influence consumers’ perceptions, shopping habits, and interactions with brands and designers. Guided by expert faculty and experienced industry practitioners, students identify business opportunities, find new ways to streamline processes for maximum profitability and efficiency, and develop rapid innovation techniques that unlock emerging possibilities for retail. Students graduate with in-depth knowledge of and advanced skills in global and local manufacturing, ethical production, value chains, marketing, and merchandising. The curriculum consists of a series of intensive course modules. Throughout the program, students gain real-world experience with New York City fashion companies and ateliers through case studies, internships, and guest lectures by fashion industry experts, which provide them with a portfolio of experiences that can be immediately applied in careers advancing innovation
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within the fashion industry.
Programs
School of Art and Design History and Theory
fashion studies ma In the groundbreaking interdisciplinary
Students have the opportunity to spend
Master of Arts in Fashion Studies
a second-year semester at Parsons Paris,
program, students develop a critical
where they have unparalleled access to
understanding of fashion and its complex
some of the most prominent fashion and
intersections with identities, histories,
textiles collections in France through the
and cultures in the contemporary world.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Palais
MA Fashion Studies investigates the
Galliera (see page 13 for more information).
material and visual dimensions of fashion
Depending on their research interests,
as dress, image, and bodily practice and as
MA Fashion Studies students may wish to
a major cultural industry that positions the
supplement their studies with the Graduate
individual within society and the world.
Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Students in the two-year, 42-credit
(GSS), designed to promote intellectual
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program are challenged to explore the
collaboration on issues of gender and
interdisciplinary theories and methodologies
sexuality in a variety of disciplines.
that have shaped fashion studies and to
The program also offers two optional
contribute to its advancement. Core and
pathways, in fashion curation and fashion
elective courses open up broad perspectives
journalism, enabling students to gain
on fashion and its connections with design,
deeper knowledge of fashion curatorial
production, consumption, imagination,
and archival practice or fashion journalism
representation, embodiment, and identity.
through a series of electives offered by the
Informed by perspectives from a variety of
program and others at the university.
disciplines, courses examine material from
MA Fashion Studies graduates have
art history, museum studies, gender studies,
gone on to pursue PhDs at leading
visual studies, film and media studies,
universities around the world and to
anthropology, sociology, and material
work at top fashion media companies
culture studies.
and publishing houses, including Rizzoli
The program draws on New York City’s
Publishing and Meredith Corporation, and
museums, exhibitions, and public events and
magazines such as Vogue, W, Nylon, and
also involves the study of people, streets,
InStyle. Other graduates work as archivists,
neighborhoods, and environments critical
educational consultants, researchers,
to fashion and its practices. Housed in
merchandisers, buyers, and public relations
Parsons’ School of Art and Design History
professionals in fashion houses, institutions,
and Theory, the program sponsors public
and corporations such as the Metropolitan
events, panels, and symposia on topics such
Museum of Art Costume Institute, Alexander
as fashion criticism and fashion curation.
Wang, Gucci, J.Crew, and Louis Vuitton.
Student-led projects, like the journal BIAS, offer opportunities to publish work and
Career paths include
collaborate with MA Fashion Studies peers.
Fashion archiving
Students complete internships at fashion
Curation and collections management
companies, magazines, and museums,
Museum and gallery administration
including Elle, V Magazine, the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Diane von Furstenberg, Comme des Garçons, Ralph Lauren, Halston, and Hermès.
Media and consulting Marketing/advertising, PR, and communications Fashion styling E-commerce Criticism and journalism Copywriting Academia and educational consulting
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TOP: BIAS is the annual student-run publication of the MA Fashion Studies program. Issue themes include Fashion + Violence, Fashion + Celebration, Fashion + Politics, Fashion + Surveillance, Fashion + Healing, Fashion + Time, and, most recently, Fashion + Death. BOTTOM: MA Fashion Studies students have the opportunity to work with pieces from Parsons’ Fashion Study Collection.
TOP: Ryota Sato, Why is the Internet so slow. Video, rocks, digital images, drawing, aluminum extrusion frames. MIDDLE: Photo of the 2017 MFA Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Second Nature. BOTTOM: Lisa McCleary, Corp Agus Fuil/Body and Blood (2018). Oil on aluminum, threaded rod, steel, concrete, 4 x 7 x 10 ft. FACING PAGE: Layo Bright, Must Go. High-density foam, Ghana-Must-Go fabric, Dutch-wax print, rope, tassels, cotton, silk. The piece was recently recognized with the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center.
FiNE ARTS MFA Students work alongside distinguished
perform an essential role in society,
faculty who exhibit and publish worldwide
the MFA in Fine Arts program provides
and whose work has appeared in the Venice
students with a dynamic, challenging
Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Documenta,
environment in which to develop diverse
and the Museum of Modern Art. MFA
studio-based practices and pursue
Fine Arts students also benefit from visits
interdisciplinary scholarship. Students
by artists and critics who are redefining
come from many backgrounds and
21st-century art. Recent guests include
cultures and work in media including
Christine Sun Kim, Nicole Eisenman, Carlos
painting, drawing, sculpture, video,
Motta, Xu Bing, Fred Wilson, Taryn Simon,
performance, digital media, installation,
Tschabalala Self, and David Reed. The
and photography.
Visiting Artist series is complemented by a Visiting Curators/Critics series and
study and practice ranging from rigorous
Public Art Fund talks sponsored by the
formal and aesthetic investigation to social
Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The
and political engagement. The two-year
New School, which recently hosted Anselm
full-time curriculum includes 27 studio,
Kiefer, Nicole Eisenman, Ai Weiwei, Amanda
12 academic, and 6 professional practice
Ross-Ho, and Anish Kapoor.
credits and a minimum of 15 elective credits.
MFA Fine Arts is housed in Parsons’
Students work independently in their own
School of Art, Media, and Technology
studios and participate in weekly critiques
(AMT), alongside the Communication
with an internationally acclaimed faculty of
Design, Design and Technology, Data
art professionals. The program curriculum
Visualization, and Photography programs.
centers on one-on-one studio visits, group
Shared faculty and collaborative projects
critiques, critical theory seminars,
allow students to explore the intersections
personalized classes, and writing and
between art, technology, design, and social
research for studio practice, as well as
critique. Students can also draw on the
professional practice seminars. The program
extensive resources of The New School,
also offers medium-specific advanced
an urban university with a tradition of
practice courses and concept-driven
civic engagement and renowned graduate
transdisciplinary seminars.
programs in media studies, management,
The New School
MFA Fine Arts encompasses modes of
policy, and the social sciences. Career paths include Arts administration Art consulting Art criticism Art handling Curation Fine arts practice Museum and gallery management University teaching
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Guided by the knowledge that artists
New York City
School of Art, Media, and Technology
Programs
School of Art and Design History and Theory
History of design & Curatorial studies MA Career paths
This prestigious two-year master’s degree program,
include
offered by Parsons in conjunction with Cooper Hewitt,
Curatorial and leadership
Smithsonian Design Museum, brings an object-focused
positions in museums
and practice-based approach to the study of European
and historic houses
and American decorative arts and design dating from
Specialist and management positions in auction houses Academia Consulting for private and corporate collections
the Renaissance to the present. Housed for more than 30 years at Cooper Hewitt—the only U.S. museum devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design—the program enables students to work directly with the
E-commerce
museum’s collections and its curators, conservators,
Criticism, journalism, and media
educators, and designers.
Alumni
curriculum offers practical and theoretical instruction in
Career paths
researching and displaying interiors and design objects such
Graduates hold curatorial posts
as furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and works in
The MA History of Design and Curatorial Studies (HDCS)
in collections worldwide and Parsons Graduate Programs
specialist positions in auction houses and galleries. They serve in capacities related to interpreting,
other media. New courses in curatorial studies and courses exploring the history of design in social and cultural context reflect the program’s broadened scope and relevance.
promoting, and educating the
Students complete the 42 required credits in two years of
public about art and design.
full-time study or three to four years of part-time study.
Museum curatorial positions: Museum of Modern Art; Victoria & Albert Museum; Indianapolis Art Museum; Museum of Arts and Design; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian
At Cooper Hewitt, graduate students have opportunities to curate exhibitions, create public programming, and produce interpretive materials, which provide hands-on experience in museum and curatorial practices. Access to the Smithsonian’s Design Library, New School library holdings,
Design Museum; Wolfsonian
and the library consortium enriches object-based research.
Museum; M+ Museum (Hong Kong)
For-credit internships enable students to explore professions
Auction house, gallery,
in museums, auction houses, and galleries and on new online
and online specialist positions:
platforms. A limited number of master’s curatorial fellowships
Sotheby’s; Paddle.com; Christie’s; Doyle; Phillips; One Kings Lane Fellowships: Cranbrook Art Museum; Winterthur Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian
at Cooper Hewitt, which provide partial tuition remission, are available. MA students can also apply for paid teaching assistantships. Students can access courses and projects taking place
Design Museum; Metropolitan
throughout Parsons and The New School, which open up new
Museum of Art
areas of investigation in curatorial practice and historical
Editorial positions: New York Times; Metropolis; Martha Stewart Living; The Magazine Antiques Interior design industry positions: Peter Marino
research. In addition, they can pursue a nine-credit minor in Design Studies, available to graduate students across The New School, which addresses the complex relationship between design and society and investigates social, political, and ethical
Architects; HOK Associates;
aspects of design from a future-oriented perspective. Students
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in the HDCS program who declare the minor can pursue their
Academic positions: New York School of Interior Design; Parsons; National Institute of Design (India); Fashion Institute
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capstone with a design studies orientation. Students graduate from the MA HDCS program prepared to work in some of the world’s most prestigious nonprofit, commercial, cultural, and academic institutions. newschool.edu/parsons-mahistory
TOP: The program is housed at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Shown here are students conducting research in the National Design Library, North Reading Room. BOTTOM: Cooper Hewitt’s collection of more than 250,000 objects and its world-class library offer Parsons students unique opportunities for curating and interpreting design objects—and reaching new audiences.
TOP: Lisa Marks ’17, fruit bowl made from knitted strands of laser-cut bamboo veneer, created for the program’s Global Production studio course. MIDDLE: The design of Spiraloop, a vegetable masher created by program director Rama Chorpash, engages the production processes of a Brooklyn spring manufacturer. The product embodies the kind of decisions contemporary designers can make to influence systems involving employment, production and sustainability, and distribution, thereby advancing the field along responsible paths. BOTTOM: Parsons students and an in-house strategist at Poltrona Frau—a luxury furniture producer and frequent collaboration partner—explore the materials proposed for a competition project.
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industrial design mfa Parsons’ Master of Fine Arts in Industrial
design practice. Local industry events
Design program offers an innovative
and collaborations with commercial and
two-year, 60-credit full-time graduate
nonprofit partners deepen connections to
curriculum that prepares students to
the field. A specialized thesis project offers
negotiate the seemingly contradictory
opportunities to develop designs that
forces at play in the growing product
advance—or challenge—industrial design
design industry. Students explore the
theory and practice. New York City boasts the country’s
(employing a “making in place” approach
largest number of creative-sector jobs
shaped by local needs and constraints)
and attracts top design talent. The MFA
and global contexts (employing design
Industrial Design program draws motivated,
principles focusing on universal needs).
reflective students with experience
In the MFA Industrial Design program,
in product design but also accepts
students combine advanced making skills
candidates from other design professions
and critical inquiry to design for production
and disciplines such as engineering,
at all scales, from low volume to high
management, anthropology, and fine arts.
volume, from desktop manufacturing to
Students graduate equipped with the
systems involving global supply chains.
ability to integrate the many considerations
The MFA Industrial Design program’s
involved in product design and to lead as
curriculum balances competing interests
socially aware makers, strategists, and
such as economical production and
industry specialists. Graduates emerge
sustainability, consumerism, social needs
prepared to design innovative products and
and environmental preservation, and global
lead the industries that manufacture them
and local production, investigating ways
as well.
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production of goods in both local contexts
to integrate and reconcile these forces as a whole. The faculty of design practitioners
Career paths include
aim to develop a community of designers
Industrial design
committed to improving industry, protecting
Product development
the environment, and enhancing the quality
Manufacturing
of life for all. Students develop their knowledge and skills in the university’s state-of-the-art product prototyping and testing facilities. In
Furniture design Humanitarian and service design Toy design Design management Architectural building systems
their second semester, MFA students explore limited-run making in New York City, and in the third semester, they can investigate large-scale global production through virtual collaborations or study abroad. An innovation-focused university with programs in the social sciences, business and management, media studies, and the performing arts, The New School offers
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complementary courses that enrich
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interior design mfa The Master of Fine Arts in Interior
During the second year, students develop
Design program at Parsons is uniquely
a research project that culminates in an
positioned to lead the practice of and
independent design proposition, written
discourse on interior design in the 21st
thesis book, and exhibition. Graduates
century. Inaugurated in 2009 at Parsons,
are positioned to transform the field as
the school where formal interior design
practitioners and educators by working in
education began, this graduate program
interior design and architecture studios,
builds on 100 years of leadership in the
developing new practices, and collaborating
field. Design as a social practice is the
with nonprofit, government, and
program’s guiding philosophy. Students
educational institutions.
explore design as a force for change, a
The program is offered by Parsons’
means of environmental stewardship, and
School of Constructed Environments (SCE),
a tool for shaping experiences.
which also houses related programs in
Integrating sustainable design strategies
architecture, lighting design, and industrial
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with new developments in technology
design. SCE students share research
and materials, the two-year full-time
and fabrication facilities and work
professional MFA in Interior Design program
together in an open design studio
prepares a new generation of designers to
collaborating on projects, uniting
address social changes and demographic
historically separate design disciplines
shifts shaping clients’ needs today. A faculty
to support cross-disciplinary innovation.
of distinguished practicing professionals work with students to imagine new
MFA Lighting Design and
possibilities for the design of habitable
Interior Design Double Major
space. Conceptual connections between
The School of Constructed Environments offers
interior design and related fields including
students wishing to combine studies in interior
art, architecture, film, science, psychology,
design and lighting design a unique double major.
philosophy, medicine, and music shape students’ work. A 60-credit studio-centered, researchoriented curriculum challenges students to
In the MFA Lighting Design and Interior Design double major, a three-year, 90-credit-hour curriculum, students develop an in-depth technical and aesthetic understanding of the relationship between light and interior design. Interested
analyze the relationship between human
students should apply directly to the double major
behavior, comfort, and perception and the
program; they will automatically be considered for
built interior. Courses investigate materials
admission to the individual MFA Interior Design and
and their environmental impact, fabrication and manufacturing processes, building systems and operational energy consumption, drawing and digital representation, and the history and theory of interior design. Students supplement core classes with electives
MFA Lighting Design programs as well.
Career paths include Design consulting Interior design Industrial design Industrial design teaching
offered throughout Parsons and in other
Sustainable design
New School colleges in fields such as design
The Interior Design MFA is not a licensure-qualifying
and technology, anthropology, psychology,
program in the State of New York. Students
and environmental and urban studies.
interested in licensure in interior design should
Using New York City as an urban laboratory, the curriculum draws on
determine licensure qualifications for the State in which they plan to practice.
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Parsons’ long-standing connections to interior design and architecture firms, manufacturers, galleries, and museums.
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TOP: MFA Interior Design students designed and built this booth for a fundraiser held by DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids) called Dining by Design. Provided with $2,500 to create the booth, the students instead used found objects and donated the unused funds to DIFFA. Photograph: Marion Curtis/Starpix. MIDDLE: Somasree Chandra, Decolonizing Space. Cell blocks in an abandoned police station are repurposed into rooms
that display video projections made by community residents to tell their own stories. 3D model on Rhino, rendering on Photoshop and Illustrator, physical collaging by hand and scanning. BOTTOM: Joel Rice, Portal. A stripped interior corridor from the Neponsit Health Care Center melds with the landscape of 120 years from now, when it is re-inhabited. Model photography, graphite, digital and physical collage.
TOP: James Clotfelter, Silvia Mazzarri, and Jordana Maisie, Atrium electric lighting visualization. MIDDLE: Access to the Lighting Lab—a resource unique to this Parsons program—lets students take varying lighting conditions into account in their designs. BOTTOM: Eby Vincent Mathew and Joanna Filter, Beat Beam.
lighting design mfa The Master of Fine Arts in Lighting
design, and product/industrial design. In
Design program at Parsons, the first of
the open environment of the SCE design
its kind in the world, has trained leaders
studio, students work collaboratively on
in this rapidly evolving field for more
complex problems ranging from single
than 45 years. With a solid foundation
interior environments to comprehensive
in the intellectual, aesthetic, and
architectural volumes, outdoor public
technical dimensions of light, Parsons’
space, and urban planning.
interdisciplinary curriculum focuses on
The School of Constructed Environments
human experience, sustainability, and the
also offers two multidisciplinary programs,
social impact of lighting design.
described below, that enable students to
Students explore the relationships
New York City
School of Constructed Environments
develop an in-depth technical and aesthetic
between theory, technical application,
understanding of the relationship between
energy conservation, and social and
light, architecture, and interior design.
natural light. The two-year full-time
MArch/MFA Lighting Design
course of study is composed of 24 studio
Dual Degree
credits, 30 credits of seminars (on cultural,
Those who wish to pursue studies in lighting design
historical, and perceptual aspects of light),
and architecture can apply to this dual-degree
and six electives. The unique curriculum is
program, a four-year, 120-credit-hour curriculum
anchored in an integrated studio experience in which students interact with peers in architecture, interior design, and product design programs. Projects bring together research, conceptual design development,
that combines the NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture and MFA Lighting Design. Interested students should apply directly to this dual-degree program; they will automatically be considered for admission to the individual Master of Architecture and MFA Lighting Design programs as well.
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environmental aspects of electric and
innovative representational techniques, technical analysis, and full-scale study
MFA Lighting Design and
to uncover the experiential and social
Interior Design Double Major
implications of illumination.
The School of Constructed Environments offers
The birthplace of architectural lighting design, New York City offers students abundant opportunities for learning and career advancement. The MFA Lighting Design program’s strong connections with the international architectural lighting design
students wishing to combine studies in lighting design and interior design a unique double major. In the MFA Lighting Design and Interior Design double major, a three-year, 90-credit-hour curriculum, students develop an in-depth technical and aesthetic understanding of the relationship between light and interior design. Interested students should apply
community help students enter a robust and
directly to the double major program; they will
growing workforce ready to succeed. With a
automatically be considered for admission to the
100 percent professional job placement rate,
individual MFA Interior Design and MFA Lighting
graduates of the MFA Lighting Design and multidisciplinary lighting design programs are poised to become leaders in this exciting field. The Lighting Design program is part of Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments (SCE), along with closely related programs in architecture, interior
Design programs as well.
Career paths include Architectural and interior lighting design Light art Theatrical lighting Exhibition lighting Equipment design and manufacturing
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Light fixture design and manufacturing
Programs
School of Art, Media, and Technology
photography mfa The MFA Photography program prepares
Rigorous critiques and regular meetings
students to become practicing artists
with faculty and professional artists help
and scholars who redefine the creative
students situate their work within broader
role of photography within contemporary
historical, theoretical, and visual culture
culture. The program challenges students
contexts. Program-sponsored conferences,
to move beyond current paradigms,
such as the recent “Photographic Universe,”
anticipating and setting trends rather
bring together practitioners and critics
than following them.
to explore contemporary issues in the field.
The flexible 26-month, 60-credit
Annual graduate thesis exhibitions and
MFA Photography curriculum enables
publications extend students’ reach into
students to undertake local internships
art communities. Graduates go on to
and apprenticeships and participate in
publish, exhibit internationally, and work
international projects. The program begins
in related positions.
with an eight-week summer session in
The MFA in Photography program is
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residence at Parsons, the first of three, in
part of Parsons’ School of Art, Media, and
which students attend lectures by and meet
Technology (AMT), which is also home to
with visiting artists, curators, and critics.
the Communication Design, Fine Arts, Design
Recent visitors include Elinor Carucci, Lisa
and Technology, and Data Visualization
Oppenheim, Eva Respini, Anna Ostoya,
graduate programs and related bachelor’s
Charlotte Cotton, Tehching Hsieh, Matthew
programs. Photography students work
Buckingham, Louise Lawler, Jason Fulford,
together and access the many academic
Penelope Umbrico, Jill Magid, Dread Scott,
resources of The New School, including
Artie Vierkant, and James Welling. In the
all of Parsons’ programs, to support
fall and spring semesters, students engage
their research.
in faculty-supervised independent study and conduct focused research in courses on
Career paths include
campus or online.
Fine art
The school’s long-standing ties to the photography and art communities offer students access to New York City and international partners for internships, exhibitions, research, and representation.
Photography teaching Commercial photography Curation Editorial photography Fashion photography Documentary production Photo editing
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TOP: Craig Callison, Desktop_003 (2014), pigment print. MIDDLE: Charlie Rubin, Red Rock Painted Truck Purple Tree. BOTTOM: Lara Atallah, The Abandoned Dinner Party (Coffee Time).
TOP: Students share their research at a public event held at Brooklyn’s Industry City. MIDDLE: Students in the recent Designing Thoughts workshop, led by trend analyst and program visiting fellow Zuzanna Skalska, learned about new economies, their effects on society and commerce, and the value of global awareness. They were then asked to imagine future business challenges and develop creative responses to them. BOTTOM: Through real-world projects, students in the program develop skill in translating the perspectives and needs of various teams involved in business management.
Strategic design & management MS The Master of Science in Strategic Design
is well suited to early- to mid-career
and Management brings together a diverse
professionals seeking to complement
group aspiring to initiate and lead change
their design and business expertise with
in emerging fields: business professionals
professional application. The program
wishing to complement their business
connects students to the broader community
skills with design capabilities, design
of Parsons and other schools and colleges
practitioners seeking to acquire expertise in
of The New School. Housed in Parsons’
business and leadership, and entrepreneurs
School of Design Strategies, the program is
looking to develop transformative business
part of a leading urban university known for
propositions for an evolving global
its courses on design strategy, leadership,
economy. Led by a world-class faculty,
entrepreneurship, and organizational,
the program is academically rigorous and
nonprofit, and sustainability management.
New York City
School of Design Strategies
industry focused. Students can complete the MS on campus, online, or through a
Global Executive Option
combination of on-campus and online study. The Global Executive Master’s in Strategic Design and Management responds to the major restructuring of economies worldwide. The program incorporates design thinking, service design, and sustainability frameworks. Students focus on the evolving global economy and are exposed to sophisticated real-world perspectives on operations, sustainability, management, leadership,
Management is an 18-month program conducted primarily online and with week- and weekend-long intensives in Paris, New York City, and China. Students can complete their studies while working full-time.
Career paths include Business Sustainability management
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The MS in Strategic Design and
Innovation Social innovation
intrapreneurship, entrepreneurship, and
Entrepreneurship
design innovation and research. This two-
Strategic and service design
year, 36-credit program is divided into two sections, each with its own distinct
Alumni Outcomes
pedagogy: academic courses and integrative
Graduates work in global firms, open their own
studios, both offered on campus and online.
consultancies, and launch design-led start-ups.
analyses of the new economy, which help students develop new business models and organization designs for creative industries. Courses provide hands-on experience in
Start-ups and consultancies: Founder/co-creator, Nazariya (artisans’ design business); founder, Kalsada Coffee Company (socially conscious global firm); founder/CEO, LOVESAC Designed for Life Furniture Co. (global home goods); co-founder, Blue Water Workshop (design strategy and innovation); founder/creative
designing, managing, and improving design-
strategist, Art Tap (fine art e-commerce); Dubai-based
intensive firms—and help students develop
innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurial advisor;
their capacity to inspire and lead creative
communications and experience design strategist
teams. In the studios, students apply their learning in projects structured like real-world industry consulting jobs. They can also take part in multimonth programs offered by
In-house design strategy: Vice president/senior insights and design strategist, Innovation Lab, Citibank; director/design and consumer experience strategy team leader, UnitedHealth Group; design strategist, Deloitte Digital; director of product strategy, eSapiens
Parsons’ ELab business incubator that are
(Brazil-based tech firm); senior strategist, Wolff Olins;
designed to develop entrepreneurship.
innovation associate, Fahrenheit 212
Offering evening classes and online instruction, this flexible graduate program
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Coursework incorporates cutting-edge
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TEXTILES MFA Today makers, designers, and scholars
broad boundaries and developing hybrid
are reimagining textiles—from locally
practices that integrate Silicon Valley’s
crafted materials to 3D printed matter
high-tech innovations with the Hudson
to embellished fabrics—and pioneering
Valley’s craft techniques. Your studies
textile-based industries and theory.
prepare you for a future in which smart
Launched in fall 2018, Parsons’ Master
textiles play many roles, collecting and
of Fine Arts in Textiles offers you a
transmitting data in a variety of products,
curriculum that engages your passion
including domestic goods and woven
and the university’s extensive resources,
technology.
preparing you for the growing array of
New York Textile Month, a citywide
opportunities related to textiles in fashion,
event initiated by MFA Textiles founder
product, interior, and scenic design;
Lidewij Edelkoort, dean of Hybrid Design
research; fine arts; architecture; and
Studies at Parsons, reflects the program’s
hybrid fields.
community-based approach to promoting
In this two-year, 60-credit full-time
textile industries. The event’s local partners
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program, you develop a critical
become your mentors, inviting you into
understanding of textiles’ sociocultural,
studios and businesses to build your skills
environmental, and emotional dimensions
and networks. The program also draws
and consider their potential for uniting
on Parsons’ institutional partners, such
craft and computational technology. In
as Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
studios, you acquire skills in essential
Museum. Lectures by global designers and
fiber techniques—yarn making, weaving,
producers add dimension to your learning.
knitting—and are introduced to new creative
Textiles are integral to an array of
methods and materials, including smart
industries—from ubiquitous computing,
fibers, digital patternmaking, 3D knitting,
automotive design, aerospace, and
and wearable technology. You develop and
healthcare to fashion, set, and interior
apply color forecasting skills and explore
design—and represent a major growth field.
high-tech and biotech production. You refine
In the program, you are guided to take an
your aesthetic sensibilities and sustainable
active role in textile industries, preparing
practice on-site in NYC textile ateliers,
to re-shore businesses, lend studio skills
deepening your collaborative and studio
to firms ranging from fashion to biotech,
abilities. Instruction in small business best
launch a business as an independent
practices rounds out your learning.
designer or high-tech researcher, or pursue
This program is housed in Parsons’
advanced studies. In the process, you
School of Fashion (SOF). The school’s
cultivate the utopian aspects of creativity
interdisciplinary approaches connect
and promote textiles’ continuing role as a
a spectrum of design disciplines and
major form of cultural expression.
concerns ranging from human factors to environmental sustainability to social
Career paths include
justice. Accordingly, the program welcomes
Textile design and research
applicants from a variety of fields, including
Sustainability consulting
textile research, studio design, and liberal
Art/design criticism and communications
arts (philosophy, anthropology, history),
Textiles education
who have fundamental textile-making skills. The MFA Textiles community is diverse
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TOP: Pallavi Padukone, Fragrant Embroidery. MIDDLE: Jacob Olmedo, Botanical Tufting. BOTTOM: Sagarika Sundaram, 3D felting.
TOP: Sophie Riendeau, Ankita Roy, and Juyeon Lee, The Emotion Invasion Lab. This group thesis is aimed at humanizing medical practice by developing young physicians’ capacity for empathy and introspection while they are still in training. The end goal: to fight physician burnout through changes to medical curriculum and design alterations to clinical spaces.
TOP LEFT: Doremy Diatta, Material Communications. For her thesis, Diatta developed objects for parents of children with disruptive behavioral disorders to use at home to practice techniques learned in therapy. With support from Parsons, Diatta presented her thesis at the 2015 Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
BOTTOM: Howard Chambers and Bland Hoke, Softwalks. Softwalks is a set of easily installed components in which construction scaffolding is used to support seating, plantings, and lighting, fostering social interaction in a greener urban landscape. Softwalks won Fast Company magazine’s Innovation by Design Award (Student Category).
transdisciplinary design mfa Emphasizing collaborative design-led
and in Strategic Design and Management.
research, Parsons’ Master of Fine Arts in
In its programs and projects, SDS employs
Transdisciplinary Design program serves
innovative approaches to design and
as an academic laboratory in New York
business education in the context of cities,
City for graduate students seeking to
services, and ecosystems.
and effect positive social change. The MFA Transdisciplinary Design
This two-year, 60-credit program focuses on project-based work supported by electives chosen by students to
program was created for designers
complement the core curriculum. Our
interested in developing and applying ideas,
approach to challenges involves the
tools, and collaborative and experimental
following methodologies:
working methods to address the complex challenges posed by global systems. Students work in cross-disciplinary teams and learn from renowned researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders. They engage with larger issues through design and emerge from the MFA program with a portfolio that reflects the use of design processes to transform social practices and complex systems. Graduates go on to work in cutting-edge design consultancies as designers and researchers, with in-house design teams at private and public organizations, on challenges such as restructuring healthcare services, as project leaders for nonprofit organizations,
» Systems thinking—the integration of ecological, economic, technological, and social systems to achieve common ends
» Sustainability in transition—building programs and infrastructure for resilience and longevity
» Social innovation—the use of design to envision and develop more just modalities of social interaction Career paths include Service design Design consulting Academia Business development
and in their own design consultancies and
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microbusinesses.
Entrepreneurship
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define the next phase of design globally
New York City
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Positions as in-house design leads in government agencies and industry
Design Strategies (SDS), alongside graduate
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1. MFA Industrial Design Tim Ronco’s Electric Kettle Model 101 the Joule, developed for the New York Kettle Company, is manufactured in the region from long-wearing materials. Its detailing makes use richly experiential while hinting at the transparency of the product’s supply chain.
2. MFA Lighting design Min Young Kim’s Daylight & Shadow Parks takes inspiration from the atmospheric daylight of Central Park. Installed in a ceiling corner, her device filters light through dichroic glass and emits a range of colorful light-and-shadow patterns.
3. MFA Fashion Design & Society Mayako Kano collages historic and modern materials and techniques in a contemporary eight-look collection inspired by the Meiji period. Her pieces feature unusual proportions, unraveled and overpainted fabrics, and low necklines and waistlines. Embroidery unifies the collection’s looks.
4. MFA TExtiles Among the first of its kind, this new program guides students in the exploration of textiles—such as the 3D material shown at left and the hand-knit and embellished fabrics shown at right—and in the study of textile theory and the expanding array of textile-based industries.
5. MS Data Visualization Aseem Agarwal’s interactive digital project, How is Delhi Slowing Down?, employs hexagons to measure and depict traffic congestion. His tool is designed to help urban planners and analysts work effectively in one of the world’s most crowded and congested cities.
6. M.Arch Architecture Battery Grange, Raquel Richter’s thesis, reimagines 14 acres of coastal parkland as a space dedicated to urban farming, recreation, and education about rising sea levels, urban resilience, and the human connection to waterways.
7. MFA Photography The Gods Life is an audio and photo series by Sarah Wang and Zuri Smith that chronicles the life of Smith’s grandfather Clarence Edward Smith—founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths, an esoteric school of thought that flourished in Harlem in the 1960s.
8. MFA Transdisciplinary Design Juyeon Lee, Chengcheng Teng, and Oliver Arellano created Vitality Rhythm, a project incorporating crop-monitoring technology, to spark dialogue about the relationship between humans and nature. People develop empathy by caring for a plant nourished by soil from Freshkills Park—once the world’s largest landfill.
9. MFA Design & Technology In Danli Hu’s Touching the Void, haptic gloves enable users to interact with virtual objects. The project, which employs Leap Motion and Arduino technology, is aimed at exploring constructed realities and the ways humans form impressions of objects in their minds.
11. MPS Communication Design Husani Barnwell developed a corporate identity and a comprehensive suite of cross-platform branding elements for Tonic Conference, an event designed to convene young changemakers working in the health and wellness industries.
12. MFA Fine Arts Paulina Kim Joo created a series of artifacts and artificial landscapes, including The Old Capital (2017), shown here. Her creations employ installation, video, and photography to explore the homesickness and loss of tradition caused by globalization.
13. MS Strategic Design & Management Marcio Oliveira Silva’s United for Innovation System is a strategic plan that helps organizations achieve desired team performance by bringing together people with different backgrounds and capitalizing on the diversity of their ideas.
14. MA Fashion Studies In Floral Flaneurs: Flower Beards and 21st Century Masculinity on the Internet, Anthony Palliparambil, Jr., proposes new conceptions of masculinity through the decorated beard, inviting men to adorn their facial hair with materials traditionally considered unmasculine.
15. MPS Fashion Management Prachi Gor analyzes the potential for subscription rental apparel companies in India. Gor’s research focuses on consumer desires for affordable new clothing, personal styling, and community with a business model that builds brand awareness while promoting a sharing economy, environmental sustainability, and responsible spending.
16. MA history of design & Curatorial Studies Jacqueline Sullivan’s thesis, “All That Concerns Us”: The Art and Life of Trude Guermonprez, sheds light on one of the most influential practitioners and educators of the 20th-century fiber art movement. Sullivan analyzes Guermonprez’s complex weaving techniques and their role in her work.
17. MFA Interior Design Maria Claudia Narvaez Arango’s Space and Empathy: Design of a Hospital Patient Room for Emotional Well-Being examines the ways spatial arrangement can influence a person’s well-being and applies interior design strategies in reimagining the traditional in-patient hospital room.
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10. MS Design & Urban Ecologies Jakob Winkler’s thesis project, Critical Cartographies of Change: Resisting Urban Renewal Through Radical Mapping, is a printed map and accompanying interactive version designed to aid readers investigating state-led renewal policies that forcibly displace New York City residents.
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University Resources
New School Public Programs
University Resources
Some of Our Recent Partners
THE MAKING CENTER
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Access to state-of-the-art and traditional tools at the Making
Aperture Foundation
Center facilitates your creative growth and gives you hands-on
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experience using everything you’ll need as a creator. Available resources include a motion capture studio; 3D printers; laser cutters; CNC routers; high-speed plotters; printmaking equipment for all media; woodworking, metalworking, and
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sewing tools; and digital imaging, audio, and production gear.
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The inviting, light-filled space is also a place where community
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forms: Students and faculty collaborate and discuss creative
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challenges at the center’s many ample work tables. LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES
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Supporting your research are the university’s libraries and
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some of the country’s best academic resources, available
through the online Research Library Consortium of South
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Manhattan. On-campus resources include the List Center
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Library, University Center Library, Performing Arts Library, and Kellen Design Archives & Special Collections at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Degree-seeking students
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can also use the extensive resources of NYU’s Bobst Library,
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the Cooper Union library, and the New York School of
Levi’s
Interior Design and Cardozo libraries.
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At the Kellen Design Archives, you can explore Parsons’ celebrated history in studio disciplines and design studies. The archives span Parsons’ history from its founding to today, conserving primary-source materials produced by our
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community, including illustrations, graphic design samples,
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fashion sketches, articles, photographs, and recordings.
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Galleries and Exhibition Spaces The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC), an award-winning space designed by Lyn Rice Architects, is a university hub of creativity and scholarship. Located
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on the ground floor of Parsons’ building at the corner of
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Fifth Avenue and 13th Street, the center offers programming
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including exhibitions curated by the SJDC staff, student
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work exhibitions, and a rich variety of events advancing
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the university’s mission to promote public dialogue on the role of art and design in civic life. The center’s more than 4,000 square feet of gallery space, equipped to support the
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INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS Industry partnerships at the university harness your talent and connect you to leading organizations and brands whose mission, knowledge base, leadership, and creativity align with yours. Partnerships challenge faculty and students
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TOP: Parsons’ Making Center— more than 25,000 square feet of workspaces with cuttingedge and traditional creative tools—fosters collaborative work, hybrid making, and innovative manufacturing processes. MIDDLE: Libraries in the University Center building and on East 16th Street include quiet study rooms and spaces for group work.
BOTTOM: Parsons’ galleries— such as this one in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center—have large windows that face the street, inviting the public to take in exhibitions and programs.
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of Image-Makers Mannes Am TOP: The Tishman Auditorium in the University Center, shown here, is a venue for public programs that bring thought leaders and innovators to campus, extending learning beyond the classroom. MIDDLE: The New School Art Collection’s newest commission, installed in the University Center, is a wall drawing by pioneering conceptual artist Agnes Denes. BOTTOM: A student creates a composition using samples from the Healthy Materials Lab’s library of nontoxic products, such as rubber flooring, tile backing made from reused juice boxes, and flooring made from linseed oil, wood flour, and jute. Also shown are ecofabrics created in collaboration with Tide detergent.
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Some of Our Research Centers
Scholarship and creative learning happen both in and
Center for Data Arts
outside of the classroom at The New School. Across our
Center for New York City Affairs
campus, students and faculty come together in interactive, collaborative spaces to rethink, reimagine, and redesign the world. In these labs, centers, facilities, and research institutes, they generate groundbreaking work that
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CENTERS, INSTITUTES, and LABS
Collaboratory Community Development Finance Lab
challenges traditional approaches to problem solving. At
Designed Realities Lab
right is a list of some of our centers, institutes, and labs.
DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability)
The New School’s art collection makes passing through campus buildings a transformative experience. Installations
Lab Digital Equity Lab ELab (design-led entrepreneurial lab)
created expressly for our community—such as Glenn Ligon’s
Engage Media Lab
site-specific commission For Comrades and Lovers, which
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envelops visitors to the University Center’s Event Café; José Clemente Orozco’s A Call for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood, a sweeping fresco cycle created in 1931; and Kara Walker’s Event Horizon, an immersive artwork filling Arnhold Hall’s stairwell—explore themes particularly relevant to The New School. Pioneering works from the
Ethnography, and Social Thought (GIDEST) Healthy Materials Lab Humanities Action Lab Open Style Lab PETLab (Prototyping, Evaluation, Teaching, and Learning Lab)
collection of nearly 2,000, including pieces by Martin
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Puryear, Adrian Piper, and photographer and New School
Tishman Environment and
teacher Berenice Abbott, are found throughout campus, offering you moments of inspiration and discovery. Social Justice at the new school The New School’s Office of Social Justice develops and supports university initiatives that promote social justice in the world in four thematic areas: stratification (by race,
Design Center Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) Urban Systems Lab Vera List Center for Art and Politics Zolberg Institute on Migration
The New School
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and Mobility
class, income, sexuality, and sexual identity); immigration and migration; climate and environment; and technology in society. The Office of Social Justice also supports internal policy and culture change to foster a welcoming and inclusive university environment and advance The New School’s mission of cultivating engaged innovators equipped to address pressing social issues. NEW SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMS Public Programs at The New School offers you more than a thousand events each year—most presented free—providing fresh perspectives and expanding your network. These lectures, conversations, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature a range of
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Tuition and cost of
The university offers graduate housing in
attendance
Kerrey Hall, Loeb Hall, and 301 Residence
For up-to-date information on tuition
Hall; you can also choose to live off campus.
and fees, visit newschool.edu/parsons/
To learn more about on- and off-campus
tuition-fees.
New York City
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All graduate students who apply by the
Career services for graduate students are
priority scholarship deadline of January 11
offered through the Center for Graduate
are considered for New School merit-based
Career and Professional Development.
scholarships; no additional application is
The center hosts job and internship
required. In addition, U.S. citizens or legal
fairs for graduate students and ongoing
residents should file the Free Application
professional development workshops as
for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) between
well as sponsoring and co-sponsoring
October 1 and March 1 if they are applying
numerous career path panel discussions
for either the summer or the fall term. The
and other special events. Graduate students
FAFSA can be found online at fafsa.ed.gov
have access to a large online job database
(the New School/Parsons code is 002780).
(HireNew), guides, and subscription-based
Some graduate programs offer paying
resources. Graduate student career advisors offer:
positions that support research and develop students’ skills while defraying the costs of
» One-on-one counseling » ●Assistance with résumés, curricula
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a list of scholarships and offers workshops
internship search strategies, and
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interview preparation
Students should also research non–New
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School scholarships and grants that can be
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9:1 student-to-faculty ratio.1 Provides financial aid and scholarships to 82% of students.2
Among national universities, The New School has the highest proportion of classes with fewer than 20 students.3
Parsons School of Design is the top art and design school in the United States.4
#1 most international university We have a higher percentage of international students than any other U.S. university with more than 10,000 students.5
#1 for sustainable building The American Institute of Architects named the New School University Center one of the greenest buildings in the United States—and it’s the largest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold–certified urban university building.
Statement of Accreditation The New School is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE, 3624 Market Street, 2nd Floor West, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 216.284.5000). MSCHE is an institutional accreditor and federally recognized body. The New School has been accredited by MSCHE since 1960. All degree programs at the New York City campus of The New School are registered by the New York State Department of Education (NYSED, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12234; 518.474.1551). Both NYSED and MSCHE provide assurance to students, parents, and all stakeholders that The New School meets clear quality standards for educational and financial performance. In the United States, most registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit professional degree programs in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. regional accreditation, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted an eight-year, threeyear, or two-year term of accreditation,
depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards. Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may require a pre-professional undergraduate degree in architecture for admission. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree. Parsons School of Design offers the following NAAB-accredited degree program: Master of Architecture (preprofessional degree + 90 credits). Next accreditation visit for this program: 2024. For full accreditation information, please visit newschool.edu/provost/accreditation. The information included in the catalogs and all materials of the university represents the plans of The New School at the time they are made public. The university reserves the right to change without notice any content in its print or online materials, including but not limited to tuition, fees, policies, degree programs, names of programs, course offerings, academic activities, academic requirements, facilities, faculty, and administrators. Payment of tuition and attendance of classes constitute acceptance of university policies set forth on this page and in the catalogs and other pages linked from it.
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