Admission Requirements

All applicants must provide the following materials:

• Completed Common Application or New York Tech online application.
• $50 nonrefundable application fee.
• Copies of transcripts of all high school work, including college-level courses. Your mid-year and final grades should be summited when available. All final, official transcripts must be received prior to the start of your first semester.
• Testing Preferences: First-time first-year applicants may choose to submit their application without standardized test scores to be considered for admission to New York Institute of Technology. This program does not require test scores, though some academic programs require test scores. Review our test-optional policy. If you are submitting official SAT (critical reading and math only) or ACT test scores, use these codes.
  NYIT SAT Code: 2561; NYIT ACT Code 2832
• Two letters of recommendation.
• 300-350 word essay on one of the following topics:
  • Tell us about your career goals and why attending New York Tech would further these goals.
  • Describe the achievement of which you are most proud and why.

A portfolio is not required as part of the initial admissions process. However, at the completion of Interior Design II (DSGN 202), you will need to submit a portfolio of work completed at New York Tech and have a 2.75 cumulative GPA or 3.0 GPA in interior design courses in order to advance from second year to third year design.

• Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 for coursework completed at other institutions or at New York Tech.
• A portfolio is required in order to receive transfer credit for design work. You will receive instructions to submit your portfolio when you receive your credit evaluation.

• First-Year Priority Deadline: December 1
• Regular Admission: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling admission basis, as long as space is available.
• International Student Deadlines: December 1 for the spring semester and July 1 for the fall semester.