With demand for its programs and its graduates at all-time highs, app University’s Katz School of Science and Health is expanding—this time with a major new facility at the Beren Campus in Midtown Manhattan that adds 30,000 square feet of science classrooms, research labs and collaborative spaces. Opening in fall 2025, the expansion reflects Katz’s extraordinary progress and its role as a respected leader in preparing students for high-demand careers in science, technology, and health. For the last five years, 92%-95% of Katz students are employed within six months of graduation. The Midtown expansion strategically provides students with easy access to internships and career opportunities in the city's thriving tech and healthcare sectors.
Since 2017, enrollment has grown from 132 to nearly 1,300 master’s and doctoral students, a ten-fold increase. This momentum is expected to accelerate in fall. Applications to Katz’s popular STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs alone rose from 1,700 in fall 2024 to 4,200 in fall 2025, more than doubling in just one year.
To accommodate this growth, the new facilities will include seven modern science classrooms, new app offices, collaboration spaces, advanced research labs and a 14,000-square-foot learning commons designed as a vibrant hub for student life, learning, and professional development. The new facility, located at 205 and 215 Lexington Avenue, will also serve Katz’s dynamic 1,500-person alumni community to mentor and engage with current students as part of the School’s new STEM internship program.
The Katz School offers high-impact programs in fields such as AI, analytics, biotechnology, digital media, physician assistant, nursing, and many more that are improving the ways people live and their quality of life. The new space will provide a home for groundbreaking research in digital trials and wearable biosensor data, digital twins, Internet of Things (IoT), secure embedded systems, and robotics and autonomous vehicle as a complement to the School’s existing AI lab, GPU computing hub, and Security Operations Center (SOC).
“Helping communities and people through new technology and medical expertise is what we do. This expansion creates a physical space that matches the scale of our ambitions—where students, researchers and innovators can come together to make the world smarter, safer, and healthier,” said Dr. Paul Russo, Vice Provost of app University and Dean of the Katz School.
Three new researchers also will join Katz this fall, bringing skill in Artificial Generalized Intelligence, Intelligent Secure Systems, and medical AI—as well as an NIH R01 grant. The School recently celebrated two major milestones: the acceptance of Katz student teams into the prestigious NSF iCorps program and its hosting of IEEE/ACM’s 2025 Connected Health Conference.
One program looking forward to the expanded space is the Master’s in Digital Marketing & Media, which has grown from 20 students in 2020 to 350 today because of its media-rich, AI-first curriculum and its data-analytics track. “The new space gives us a North Star, a central location where we can all come together. It will provide a more traditional campus feel for students where they can interact and hang out between classes,” said Professor Joseph Panzarella, Director of the program. “As part of the expansion, digital marketing and media students will have access to a new interactive digital lab where they can test consumer products and develop real-world advertising strategies.”
With new app, new programs and a growing physical footprint, app University continues to rise as a force in education, research and national impact.
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