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The New School

private university in New York
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Summary

The New School is a private university[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of private university entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,994 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Association of American Colleges and Universities[3], American Council on Education[4], Open Education Network[5], International Association of Universities[6]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Manhattan[7]
  • Country: United States[8]
  • Instance of: research university[9], private not-for-profit educational institution[10], open-access publisher[11], educational institution[12]
  • Founder: John Dewey[13], Alvin Saunders Johnson[14], Charles A. Beard[15], Thorstein Veblen[16], James Harvey Robinson[17], Horace Kallen[18]
  • Location: Greenwich Village[19]
  • Postal code: 10011-8603[20]
  • Child organization or unit: Parsons School of Design[21], The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music[22], Parsons Paris[23], College of Performing Arts[24], Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts[25], The New School for Social Research[26]
  • Commons category: The New School[27]
  • Industry: higher education[28]
  • Inception: January 1, 1919[29]
  • Coordinate location: 40.73534, -73.99704[30]
  • Mascot: Gnarls Narwhal[31]
  • Official website: https://newschool.edu/[32]
  • Topic's main category: Category:The New School[33]
  • Employees: 3017[34]
  • Affiliation: Association of American Colleges and Universities[35]
  • Official name: The New School[36]
  • Owner of: The New School University Center[37]
  • Count of students: 9047[38], 10,007[39]
  • Total assets: 1,320,226,000[40]
  • Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: doctoral university: higher research activity[41], majority undergraduate[42], research doctoral: humanities/social sciences-dominant[43], four-year, medium, primarily residential[44], four-year, full-time, more selective, higher transfer-in[45]

Why It Matters

The New School has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → new-school-for-social-research-new-york
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: new-school-for-social-research-new-york, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952327|new school for social research new york (#289952327)]] i"
  2. 13w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of israel j9u id → 987007265942805171, 987007444160005171, 987007406093305171
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007406093305171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783595065105; Based on LC id in the National Library of Israel"
  3. 13w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of israel j9u id → 987007265942805171, 987007444160005171, 987007406093305171
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007444160005171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783595065105; Based on LC id in the National Library of Israel"
  4. 13w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isni → 0000000405239547, 0000000122207158, 0000000121656023
    Topic's main category → Category:The New School
    Times higher education world university id → new-school
    Factgrid item id → Klaus Honnef
    + 45 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Times higher education world university id: new-school, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/74486053|The New School (#74486053)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catal"
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