by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Fashion Institute of Technology was awarded 73 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business, management & marketing.
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FIT SUNY is ranked #32 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when FIT SUNY held the #85 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
FIT SUNY also holds the #4 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
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Fashion Institute of Technology has an acceptance rate of 53%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for FIT SUNY.
With a student to faculty ratio of 17 to 1, Fashion Institute of Technology is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Fashion Institute of Technology is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Fashion Institute of Technology has a freshmen retention rate of 88%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,959 undergraduates at FIT SUNY with 6,966 being full-time and 993 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $17,848 | $19,437 | $24,718 | $26,854 | $28,956 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of FIT SUNY, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At FIT SUNY, approximately 36% of students took out student loans averaging $8,716 a year. That adds up to $34,864 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for FIT SUNY are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 227 W 27Th St, New York, NY 10001-5992 |
| Phone: | 212-217-7999 |
| Website: | www.fitnyc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Design & Applied Arts | 1,313 | $27,023 |
| Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing | 1,083 | $42,717 |
| Public Relations & Advertising | 579 | $36,849 |
| Marketing | 148 | $37,663 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 108 | $23,428 |
| Textile & Apparel Studies | 107 | $40,463 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 32 | NA |
| Graphic Communications | 22 | $12,261 |
| Arts & Media Management | 21 | $27,941 |
| Entrepreneurial Studies | 19 | $24,387 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 3,428 students took at least one online class at Fashion Institute of Technology. This is an increase from the 3,198 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 3,428 | 326 |
| 2021-2022 | 3,198 | 351 |
| 2020-2021 | 8,177 | 8,019 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,655 | 204 |
Learn more about online learning at Fashion Institute of Technology.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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