Fashion Institute of Technology visit

Falcon Press Media Editor Taylor Koontz visits FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she met her fellow class of 2020 students and toured the campus of where she has committed to spend her next 4 years.

The Fashion Institute of Technology is an internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business, located on 27^th and 7^th Avenue in New York City. It’s ranked #2 by Fashionista.com as one of the Top 20 Fashion Schools in the United States and #5 by Business of Fashion for Top Global Fashion Schools. The school is primarily known for its Fashion Design and Fashion Business Management majors, but it’s home to many other interesting fields such as Toy Design, Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing, and Computer Animation. The school’s motto is “Where creativity gets down to business,” and that couldn’t be truer. The school’s primary focus is teaching their students real world applications so that they will graduate with many internships under their belt and job offers waiting for them.

When I first visited FIT, I was shocked by how safe and friendly the campus feels. 27^th Street, where FIT is located, is completely blocked off from traffic. The three dorm buildings, Alumni, Nagler, and Coed, are located directly across the street from the academic buildings. The school’s location on a single block gives FIT a real campus feel in the middle of New York City.

The students at FIT are confident in what they want to do and have a strong passion for their majors. They’re expected to take multiple internships throughout their 4 years of college and get the chance to work with some of the biggest companies in the industry. Their professors are required to have at least 10 years of experience in the industry and many of them still work in their field. If you are career driven and know what you want to do with your life, FIT may be the school for you.

FIT may have a rep for being a fashion school, but it does compete in Division III athletics and has nationally ranked sports teams. If a team sport isn’t your thing, FIT also has a state of the art gymnasium and offers yoga, spin, and Pilates classes.

FIT also has a large range of clubs and extracurricular activities for students to participate in. Its oldest club, the Merchandising Society, runs the schools on campus clothing boutique, the Style Shop. Other clubs include Runway27, the school’s fashion show club, W27, the school’s newspaper club, and even a Figure Skating club.

FIT is an academically driven university with a wide range of majors in the fields of Business, Design, and Liberal Arts. Students at FIT are driven and competitive in their field, the professors are professionals in the fields that they teach, and there is plenty of student life on campus, despite the school being in the middle of Manhattan. If you know what you want to do, want to live in an urban city, and are ready for 4 years of creativity and entrepreneurship, FIT may be the school for you.