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1 of New York City's premier public institutions and role of the Land University of New York (SUNY), FIT is an internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business organisation. Nosotros're known for our rigorous, unique, and adaptable bookish programming, experiential learning opportunities, academic and industry partnerships, and commitment to inquiry, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

While our pedagogical mission is to set up our students for professional excellence in design and business, our broader ethos is to foster creativity, inspire leadership, impart a global perspective, and educate students to cover inclusiveness, commit to sustainability, and engage with community. We encourage students, scholars, teachers, and manufacture colleagues to cantankerous traditional boundaries of both geography and disciplines. Together we strive to develop innovative blueprint and strategic business solutions that volition upend the status quo, create personal and professional person opportunity, and take a lasting and sustainable global impact.

Programs We Offer

Undergraduate

  • Fashion Design
  • Interior Design
  • Way Business Management
  • Advertising & Marketing Communications
  • Fine Arts
  • Menswear

Demographics

8,726 Total Enrollment
8,508 Undergraduate Enrollment
218 Graduate Enrollment
12% International Student Enrollment
xviii% Male person
82% Female
16:1 Kinesthesia-Student Ratio
­­­­230 Kinesthesia: Full-Time
801 Kinesthesia: Part-Time
l+ Countries Represented
Top 5 China, South korea, India, Canada, Japan
Other More than two,300 students reside in our on-campus residence halls. Our 4 residence halls provide single, double, triple and quad occupancy rooms and suites. Click for more than information about campus housing.

English language every bit a Second Language Program and Services

Does your institution have an Intensive English Program?
Yes

Intensive English Linguistic communication at FIT: A comprehensive, total-time program that combines academic and non-credit professional evolution courses, offering a uniquely practical solution to learning English as a 2nd language. The program prepares students for higher-level studies and supports career development, while providing the opportunity to spend a full fifteen-calendar week semester on FITs vibrant New York Urban center campus.

ESL/Fashion Business Intensive Programs: A three-calendar week intensive summer program offering ESL studies along with courses in fashion pattern, mode merchandising, fashion styling & reporting, and global fashion business marketing.

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Can your institution issue an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility for F-1 Student Condition to a educatee who has been admitted but to the Intensive English language Program?
Yeah

Does your institution provide courses of English as a 2d Language to admitted students?
Yes

International Educatee Housing Options

More than 2,300 students reside in our on-campus residence halls. Our iv residence halls provide unmarried, double, triple and quad occupancy rooms and suites. For more information nigh campus housing, click here.

Collaborative Programs

Check out our programs by clicking here.

Offset Year, Transfer, and Graduate Students

To review admissions requirements, please visit our website:

Undergraduate Admissions

Graduate Studies

Fiscal Aid

International students are non eligible for financial assistance from FIT. International students may borrow under the Alternative Loan Program. Well-nigh lenders volition require an eligible (credit worthy) co-signer that is a U.S. citizen.

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

Educatee Activities and Campus Life

The FIT campus is a tightly knit community in Manhattan'due south Chelsea neighborhood, one of the about vibrant areas of the metropolis, with cafes, fine art galleries, boutiques, theaters, museums and restaurants right outside our doors or a curt walk away. In that location are more than 60 student clubs, a college newspaper and a radio station, plus community service opportunities and activities right on campus. For a consummate listing of our student clubs, click here.