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Master of Engineering Admissions Process

Materials and Structures Lab

Materials and Structures Lab

Our fall 2025 application is live! 
 

Dates and Deadlines

Application Deadline: January 15
Decision Notification: March 15

Application Instructions

Current Cooper Union Student Applicants

If you are currently a junior in the undergraduate program at Cooper Union, you should NOT submit a Master of Engineering application. All current juniors should complete the Dual Degree Master's Program Notification Form. Please click here to learn more about the dual degree program.

The application steps listed below are for applicants who already graduated from The Cooper Union or are currently seniors pursuing an integrated degree in The Cooper Union School of Engineering. 

All Other Applicants

The application steps listed below are for applicants who have NOT graduated from or will not be graduating from Cooper Union's School of Engineering. 

  • B.Eng. degree in an engineering discipline accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
  • Master of Engineering Application
  • Official copies all post-secondary transcripts, including college/university transcripts
  • 2 teacher recommendations (at least one from a STEM course instructor)
  • Resume 
  • OPTIONAL: Official GRE Scores
  • $75 application fee or fee waiver 
English Language Proficiency Requirements For International Students

Graduate applicants whose first language is not English and who have not completed a Bachelor’s degree at a school where English was the official medium of instruction, are required to take one of the exams below. Please ensure that the name on your passport matches the name on your application and on your language scores.

English language proficiency test results are valid for two years only. 

Test for English Language Proficiency

Minimum Score Requirements

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

600 (paper-based test)

100 (internet-based test)

MyBest® scores are not accepted

IELTS (International English Language Testing System)

7.0 

DET (Duolingo English Test)

120 


We do not accept results from the following exams: IELTS Indicator, TOEFL ITP Plus for China, TOEFL Essentials, and PTE Academic Online.  

Resume Requirements

In a separate document, please submit a resume listing any professional licensure or certification along with a statement indicating what areas within engineering you seek to study. Be sure to outline any relevant academic honors or awards, teaching or work experiences, internships, publications, research, projects, websites, patents, or other evidence of creative scholarship. In the same document, please list any relevant graduate-level coursework taken and method of instruction—traditional, online, and hybrid (mix of online and traditional). 

If you have questions about our undergraduate application process, please attend an info session, check out our FAQs, or email us at admissions@cooper.edu.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.