Overview

Both art and craft, professional photography requires an individual creative vision, a mastery of skills and tools, and the acumen to get your work seen. In this program, you’ll learn to communicate complex ideas through images.

Working in the well-equipped studios and in a close-knit community of students and faculty, you’ll study camera formats, lighting, and photo styling, and become proficient in digital and analog photography.

Key Features

The two-year Associate in Applied Science (AAS) is a thorough introduction to photography. Here, you’ll learn digital and analog still photography, black and white printing, color theory, and digital post-production.

With the Photography and Related Media degree from Fashion Institute of Technology SUNY, you will learn the skills needed to create a portfolio and start a career in photography, though many students go on to the two-year BFA program.

You’ll learn about lighting, composition, retouching, and professional business practices while gaining hands-on experience in both studio and location settings, exploring portraiture, fashion, still life, documentary, and video art.

You will also tap into a vast network of contacts in New York City through seminars, guest lectures, and industry events. In your last semester, you’ll engage in a required internship and be challenged to create work that’s provocative, evocative, relevant, and timeless.

Careers

Talented and skilled photographers are in high demand. Students have interned at Saturday Night Live, Refinery 29, Vice, Vogue, Nan Goldin, Lois Greenfield, Brooklyn Museum, Richard Avedon Foundation, major ad agencies, and InStyle. Graduates enter the industry as studio assistants, commercial photographers, editorial photographers, video editors, photography directors, curators, photo editors at magazines and stock agencies, art buyers at advertising agencies, and retouchers.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Photographic Concepts and Exhibition

Digital Production Strategies

Contemporary Photography and New Media

New Documentary Practices

Multimedia Workshop

Digital Editing for Film and Video

Media Integration for Photo and Video

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-31 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

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Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Manhattan, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

Admissions Essay: After receiving the initial confirmation from FIT, you will receive a second email providing an individualized link to submit your essay, and, if you are a transfer student, a list of your in-progress courses.

School Transcripts.

Portfolio.

English Proficiency.

SAT and ACT Scores.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

21692 USD / year

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Out-of-State

21692 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

7170 USD / year

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Living costs

Manhattan

United States

900 - 1400 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Careers

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

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Living costs

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