The New School in New York City is a progressive urban university where the walls between disciplines are dissolved, so that journalists can collaborate with designers, architects with social researchers, media specialists with activists, poets with musicians.

In 1919, a few great minds imagined a university that would rethink the purpose of higher learning. Since then, The New School has become a distinct university comprised of a world-famous design school, a premier liberal arts college, a renowned performing arts school, a legendary social research school, and other advanced degree programmes, created to challenge and support freethinkers who want to change the world.

Students from around the world come to Greenwich Village and The New School to participate in an intellectual life of critical analysis and experimentation.

Applicants to this award are encouraged to consider graduate programmes offered at each of the New School’s four schools: 

• Parsons School of Design
• Schools of Public Engagement
• College of Performing Arts
• New School for Social Research