Steinhardt School

An undergraduate and graduate school in the US (New York) / Twinned with Université Paris I – Panthéon-La Sorbonne (Paris) under the Foundation’s Franco-American exchange programme (2010)

The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development is one of the University of New York’s 14 divisions – and the oldest teacher-training school in the US. It was established in 1890 as the School of Pedagogy, and renamed after Judy and Michael Steinhardt, its most generous patrons (US$ 10 million), in 2001. Its curricula span art, music, education, health, applied psychology and the media, and its music and occupational-therapy syllabi regularly rank among that countries best ten. Steinhardt School is private but runs a scholarship programme. This big cultural melting pot counts 6,400 students, 11 departments and 250 professors. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy visited the Steinhardt School on 29 March 2010, during time off an official visit to New York.