Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL
Florida Institute of Technology is a private research university in Melbourne, Florida, a small city, with 3,404 undergraduates. Engineering and transportation are its signature fields: together they make up 60% of its bachelor's degrees, about eight times their share across the colleges we cover. 64% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $43,137 ten years after starting.
Florida Institute of Technology admitted 9,507 of 15,205 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (62.5%).
- Acceptance rate
- 62.5%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $45,900
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $35,639
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 23–28
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Florida Institute of Technology is known for
Measured by the 596 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Engineering
44.8%
of its bachelor's degrees: about six times the 6.9% share across the colleges we cover.
Transportation
15.1%
of its bachelor's degrees: about 76 times the 0.2% share across the colleges we cover.
- Air Transportation9015.1% of degrees$83,243About the $85,825 national median
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering8113.6% of degrees$97,015About the $98,207 national median
- Mechanical Engineering579.6% of degrees$92,753About the $92,135 national median
- Computer Science386.4% of degrees$91,606−14% vs $107,009 nationally
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering294.9% of degrees$98,505About the $100,647 national median
- Computer Engineering274.5% of degrees$106,431About the $109,015 national median
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Small city
Melbourne, FL
Undergraduates
3,404
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Doctoral university, high research activity
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
13 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
12%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Florida Institute of Technology
Two things Florida Institute of Technology published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
Florida Institute of Technology required a test score of the fall 2023 entering class.
That is the school’s answer on the federal survey for that class. A test policy can change between surveys, so treat it as the last measured position rather than today’s rule. 70% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $35,639 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
62.5%
9,507 admitted of 15,205 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 570–660Math 560–660
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
23–28
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
70%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
29%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Florida Institute of Technology?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Florida Institute of Technology costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $45,900, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $62,440. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $35,639 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$45,900
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$62,440
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$35,639
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $62,440 full cost.
- Under $30k$29,108Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$29,213Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$31,311Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$36,466Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$40,649Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
64%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
80%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$43,137
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$27,000
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
What Florida Institute of Technology says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
- Rolling AdmissionJuly 15, 2027
Verified August 10, 2026 · Source
More colleges on the record
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Other colleges in Florida
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Florida Gulf Coast University63.4%
- Florida International University60.9%
- Beacon College60.4%
- Barry University59.1%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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