10-yr median earnings
$62,696
Federal aid recipients only
Public · New York, New York
Fashion Institute of Technology is a public institution in New York, New York. as a public institution, published Scorecard outcomes are the federal Title-IV cohort view of former students — not every graduate and not a guarantee for any one enrollee.
The verdict
Fashion Institute of Technology pairs top-quartile former-student earnings with a moderately open admit.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.
Institution data retrieved July 2026; field-of-study data retrieved March 2026.
Figures above come from IPEDS institution records published through the College Scorecard (retrieved July 2026 for institution fields; March 2026 for field-of-study). Peer groups and cost cohorts follow IPEDS ownership sector, Carnegie class ("Master's Colleges & Universities: Small Programs"), and locale, not an editorial shortlist.
Average net price subtracts grant and scholarship aid from cost of attendance for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV recipients. It is a defined cohort average, not a personalized price; income-band fields add context but do not replace the school's current net-price calculator.
Earnings use Treasury-linked records for federally aided former students who were working and not enrolled in the measurement year (completers and noncompleters). IPEDS completion and retention use separate first-time, full-time cohorts, so those denominators are not the earnings cohort. Read cost, completion, and earnings as distinct historical measures, not a causal verdict or individual forecast.
A 6-metric composite of earnings, cost, and completion outcomes benchmarked against every reporting US college, not a ranking of teaching quality, campus life, or fit for any individual student. See the full methodology.
Each axis is the percentile score shown in the breakdown at left; the shape shows this school's overall profile at a glance.
10-yr median earnings
$62,696
Federal aid recipients only
Avg net price
$19,095
After grants and scholarships
150%-time completion
82.0%
Full-time, first-time cohort
Four-year-institution cohort
Each dot is a college plotted by 10-year median earnings (x-axis) vs average net price (y-axis), colored by completion within 150% of normal time. Bottom-right = high earnings/lower price; top-left = lower earnings/higher price.
Where this school's former-student earnings fall within the full national distribution of every US college that reports to the College Scorecard, not just its peer set.
Fashion Institute of Technology: former-student earnings vs. every US college
10-year median earnings, College Scorecard
$62,696 Top 13% higher than 87% of 5,103 US colleges
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more US colleges. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard · Mar–Jul 2026 retrievals
| Metric | Fashion Institute of Technology | National rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-yr median earnings | $62,696 | #640 of 5103 | 87th |
| Average net price | $19,095 | #2911 of 5020 | 42nd (lower is better) |
| 150%-time completion | 82.0% | #612 of 4858 | 87th |
| Undergraduate enrollment | 7,637 | #478 of 5462 | 91st |
National ranks count every operating US college reporting each metric to the College Scorecard, separate from the earnings histogram above.
State rank among 299 reporting New York colleges with College Scorecard data, a separate lens from the national distribution above.
| Metric | Fashion Institute of Technology | State rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-yr median earnings | $62,696 | #82 of 299 | 73rd |
| Average net price | $19,095 | #185 of 328 | 44th (lower is better) |
| 150%-time completion | 82.0% | #63 of 322 | 80th |
| Undergraduate enrollment | 7,637 | #32 of 367 | 91st |
| # | School | 10-yr earnings | Net price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | $131,426 | $29,882 |
| 2 | Helene Fuld College of Nursing | $111,027 | $47,181 |
| 3 | SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University | $109,601 | - |
| 4 | Center for Allied Health Education | $107,249 | $48,150 |
| 5 | Miami Ad School-New York | $106,192 | - |
| 6 | St Paul's School of Nursing-Queens | $104,403 | $26,315 |
| 7 | Cornell University | $104,043 | $28,690 |
| 8 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University | $104,043 | - |
| 9 | Columbia University in the City of New York | $102,491 | $21,590 |
| 10 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $102,051 | $36,228 |
| 11 | Cochran School of Nursing | $99,503 | - |
| 12 | Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing | $96,980 | - |
| 82 | Fashion Institute of TechnologyThis school | $62,696 | $19,095 |
| Admission Rate | 60.2% |
Average annual net price after grants; Title IV recipient cohort by income bracket
$0 – $30k
$14,117 net price / yr
$30k – $48k
$16,238 net price / yr
$48k – $75k
$20,406 net price / yr
$110k+
$26,070 net price / yr
What this shows Need-based aid pulls net price down at lower brackets at Fashion Institute of Technology - compare the bar for your income band, not the overall average alone.
| In-State Tuition | $6,294 |
| Out-of-State Tuition | $16,874 |
| Average Net Price | $19,095 |
Across 11 reported years between 2013 and 2023, the average net price here has ranged from $8,985 to $22,229 without settling into a rise or a fall. Comparing only the first and last years would read as +92.1%, but the years in between do not follow that line, so the honest summary is the range rather than a trend. Budget against the upper end, not the average.
11 reported years. Nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Over the same years, enrollment went -6.0% (8,058 → 7,575 students).
Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, per-year fields (2013–2023). Net price is the average cost after grant and scholarship aid for federally-aided undergraduates.
| Measure | Cohort / horizon | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Completion within 150% of normal time | First-time, full-time | 82.0% |
| First-year retention | First-time, full-time freshmen | 90.7% |
| Median earnings | 6 years after entry | $50,102 |
| Median earnings | 10 years after entry | $62,696 |
| Share earning over $25,000 | Working, not enrolled | 72.7% |
| Loan repayment rate | Completers, 3 years after leaving | 76.5% |
| Median federal student debt | At completion | $12,000 |
| Estimated monthly payment | Standard 10-year plan | $127/mo |
| Credential | Programs | Award count | Avg earnings | Top earnings | Avg debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 9 | 1,589 | $60,371 | $71,139 | $20,424 |
| Associate's | 7 | 1,751 | $47,613 | $60,504 | $11,357 |
| Master's | 2 | 41 | - | - | $41,000 |
Median earnings of program completers, College Scorecard field-of-study file
Apparel and Textiles
$71,139 median earnings
Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations
$70,727 median earnings
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
$69,954 median earnings
Marketing
$67,002 median earnings
Design and Applied Arts
$60,882 median earnings
Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations
$60,504 median earnings
Apparel and Textiles
$58,876 median earnings
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
$54,879 median earnings
What this shows The highest-earning programs at a school are not necessarily its most popular ones - a small specialized program can post strong median earnings without reflecting the outcome most students here actually see.
Matches use Scorecard measures among reporting colleges — not state-system recommendations or geographic proximity.
Other Public institutions closest in reported enrollment, preferring the same Carnegie classification.
Other Public institutions with the nearest reported average net price.
Public-college profiles lean on IPEDS enrollment and Scorecard Title-IV outcomes. State appropriations are outside this page; the figures below are the federal cohort measures only.
Every number is read live from the Mar–Jul 2026 Scorecard/IPEDS retrievals. Public institutions often enroll large Title-IV cohorts, so medians can be stable — still cohort averages, never a personal forecast. Read the full methodology for how the data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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