Fashion Institute of Technology

What the IPEDS & College Scorecard Data Shows for Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Institute of Technology operates as a public institution located in New York, New York (city: large), with a total reported enrollment of 7,637 students of which 8,696 are undergraduates. Institution-level records in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) classify each school by Carnegie category, ownership sector, and urban/rural locale, which is how this profile’s peer group and cost cohort are determined. Fashion Institute of Technology is categorized as “20” under the Carnegie classification system, a meaningful signal when comparing like-to-like institutions.

Selectivity and financial signals give context to what applicants can expect. The reported admission rate is 60.2%, drawn from the most recent IPEDS Fall enrollment survey. The average net price after grants and scholarships is $19,095, with published in-state tuition of $6,294 and a Pell grant recipient share of 32.0%. Median federal student debt at graduation is $12,000, drawn from the U.S. Treasury-matched College Scorecard file.

Outcomes reveal whether the investment pays back. The 4-year completion rate is 82.0%, and the first-year retention rate is 90.7%. Graduates earn a median of $62,696 ten years after enrolling, compared with $50,102 six years post-enrollment. Within three years of entering repayment, 280400.0% of borrowers are making progress on their federal loans, and 72.7% of graduates earn above the high-school threshold. Treating these numbers as a single snapshot alongside the cost cohort is the standard approach for evaluating ROI under the College Scorecard methodology.