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1 of New York Urban center'south premier public institutions and part of the State University of New York (SUNY), FIT is an internationally recognized college for design, mode, art, communications, and business concern. Nosotros're known for our rigorous, unique, and adaptable bookish programming, experiential learning opportunities, academic and manufacture partnerships, and commitment to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

While our pedagogical mission is to prepare our students for professional person excellence in pattern and business, our broader ethos is to foster creativity, inspire leadership, impart a global perspective, and brainwash students to embrace inclusiveness, commit to sustainability, and appoint with community. We encourage students, scholars, teachers, and industry colleagues to cantankerous traditional boundaries of both geography and disciplines. Together we strive to develop innovative design and strategic business solutions that will upend the status quo, create personal and professional opportunity, and take a lasting and sustainable global affect.

Programs Nosotros Offer

Undergraduate

  • Fashion Design
  • Interior Design
  • Fashion Business concern Management
  • Ad & Marketing Communications
  • Fine Arts
  • Menswear

Demographics

8,726 Total Enrollment
8,508 Undergraduate Enrollment
218 Graduate Enrollment
12% International Student Enrollment
18% Male
82% Female person
sixteen:i Faculty-Student Ratio
­­­­230 Faculty: Full-Fourth dimension
801 Faculty: Part-Time
50+ Countries Represented
Top five China, South Korea, Republic of india, Canada, Japan
Other More than than 2,300 students reside in our on-campus residence halls. Our four residence halls provide single, double, triple and quad occupancy rooms and suites. Click for more information about campus housing.

English as a 2nd Language Program and Services

Does your institution accept an Intensive English language Program?
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Intensive English Language at FIT: A comprehensive, full-time program that combines bookish and non-credit professional development courses, offering a uniquely practical solution to learning English every bit a second language. The program prepares students for college-level studies and supports career development, while providing the opportunity to spend a full 15-week semester on FITs vibrant New York Urban center campus.

ESL/Style Concern Intensive Programs: A iii-calendar week intensive summer program offering ESL studies forth with courses in manner design, fashion merchandising, fashion styling & reporting, and global fashion business marketing.

For more information, click here.

Tin your institution issue an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility for F-ane Student Status to a pupil who has been admitted simply to the Intensive English Program?
Yes

Does your institution provide courses of English as a Second Linguistic communication to admitted students?
Yep

International Student Housing Options

More than than two,300 students reside in our on-campus residence halls. Our four residence halls provide single, double, triple and quad occupancy rooms and suites. For more information almost campus housing, click here.

Collaborative Programs

Check out our programs past clicking here.

First Year, Transfer, and Graduate Students

To review admissions requirements, please visit our website:

Undergraduate Admissions

Graduate Studies

Financial Assist

International students are non eligible for financial assistance from FIT. International students may borrow under the Culling Loan Program. Most lenders will require an eligible (credit worthy) co-signer that is a U.Due south. citizen.

Other helpful sources for International Students:
educationusa.land.gov
edupass.org/

Pupil Activities and Campus Life

The FIT campus is a tightly knit community in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, i of the almost vibrant areas of the city, with cafes, art galleries, boutiques, theaters, museums and restaurants right outside our doors or a short walk abroad. At that place are more than 60 pupil clubs, a higher newspaper and a radio station, plus customs service opportunities and activities right on campus. For a complete listing of our student clubs, click here.