Public · New York, NY
Fashion Institute of Technology
Get to know the college, from admissions and cost to life on campus.
Overview
FIT is a SUNY college built around one industry: fashion, beauty, and the businesses that run them, taught two blocks from Manhattan's Garment District. What gets you in depends on which of its four schools you apply to: portfolio review for design majors, file review for business, art history and the sciences. FIT also runs many students through an associate degree first, a two-year on-ramp instead of a straight four-year path.
About Fashion Institute of Technology
- Type
- Public University
- Setting
- Urban
- Undergraduates
- 7,637
Admissions
- Early Decision/Early Action
- No
- Accepts Common App
- —
Cost
Tuition and aid
- Full cost of attendance
- $24,857per year
- In-state tuition
- —
- Out-of-state tuition
- —
- Average family income
- $69,669
- Students with a school grant
- 14%
- Average school grant
- $2,795
- Average federal debt
- $12,000at graduation
- Need-blind
- —
- Meets full need
- No
- Merit scholarships
- —
- CSS Profile
- —
- International aid
- No federal aid (Pell, Stafford, work-study); FIT grants and outside scholarships only
Academics
- Majors offered
- 10
- Freshmen who return
- 91%
- Notable
- 50,000+garments and accessories in The Museum at FIT, free and on campus
Students
Campus life
- Setting
- Urban
- Location
- New York, NY
- Live on campus
- —
- Student organizations
- —
- Varsity sports
- —
FIT's own residence halls, on West 27th and 31st Streets in Chelsea, house about 2,300 students; most of FIT's roughly 7,600 undergraduates commute, so daily life leans on studio hours, clubs, and the fashion industry itself more than a residential quad. How FIT feels depends heavily on your major: design students effectively live in the studio, while business and liberal-arts students move through a more ordinary class schedule. Being two blocks from the Garment District means real industry access starts early, guest critiques, internships, and adjunct faculty who work in the industry by day, a texture aggregate student reviews and FIT's own student paper, W27, both point to as the defining feature of going here.
Summarized by Spike from what students write: FIT Residential Life, W27 Newspaper.
Outcomes
- Earnings 6 years in
- $56,055
- Graduate within 6 years
- 82%
- Average federal debt
- $12,000
- Graduates go into
- Celebrity Milliner, Seaweed Textile Innovator, Arts Administrator and Fashion Curator
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Spike Rankings 2027
Where Fashion Institute of Technology ranks.
- #45Best Collegesof 232 ranked
- #1Best Colleges That Admit Most Applicantsof 132 ranked
- #3Colleges That Beat Expectationsof 231 ranked
- #10Best Colleges for the Artsof 196 ranked
Ranked on federal data about graduation, earnings and cost. How Spike ranks colleges
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