The New School/Parsons The New School for Design

The New School: A University

The New School was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research. Its main campus is in the vibrant Greenwich Village area of New York City. The New School is a renowned progressive university made up of eight schools that you bonded together by a common goal: to inspire and prepare it's over 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students to be catalysts for positive change in the world around them.



Over the years, despite the fast paced and far reaching changes in the world The New School has stayed at the forefront of social activism, artistic expression, academic freedom and innovative education.
Online Education at The New School

If the mind has no borders - why should your university?
The New School first started to offer its online programs in 1994 with the support of financial grants form FIPSE, AT&T, Citibank, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The New School degree programs are fully accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The credits and degrees granted by The New School are accepted and recognized by other accredited colleges, universities and professional institutions across the country. The New School is a private university and has been granted a charter that grants it university status by the Regents of the State of New York.

The online program offered by The New School gives serious students a way to learn that fits with their unique lifestyles. No matter whether you are earning credits towards a degree from the New School or are just looking to explore a new field at home or abroad, The New School will be able to offer you great higher education options.

The New School Online Classroom Experience

The New Schools online courses meet asynchronously which means that you can do your coursework at any time of day or night. You do not have to be online at the same time as your classmates in order to join in discussion and post responses. You can read their answers anytime that you are online and you will get the feeling of everyone being there working together.

Students studying for credit at The New School must fulfil course requirements including: writing papers, taking exams and completing projects, just as they would in a traditional class room environment. It is highly recommended that students log in a minimum of three times a week.

Technical Services and Support

Online student orientation is open to all students who are new to online learning with The New School. Additionally you will receive a technical orientation and information on the resources that are available to the students of The New School. The orientation will give you the chance to learn how to work within the online classroom setting, learn about online communications methods and gain a sense of the dynamics of an online classroom before your actual course begins.

Technical and student services from The New School are available via telephone or email 24hours a day, seven days a week.

Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School for Design is one of the leading degree-granting colleges of art and design in the United States. Graduates and faculty from Parsons The New School for Design are on the short list of outstanding practitioners in every area of art and design - creative, management, and scholarly. Parsons The New School for Design is responsive to the needs of society and predictive of cultural trends, Parsons The New School of Design makes tangible, usable, and beautiful through the ethos of bringing positive, innovative change to the world.