| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY); campus-based |
| Campus | 1, in Downtown Brooklyn (main address 300 Jay Street), spread over several nearby buildings |
| Credentials | Associate (AAS, AS, AA) and bachelor’s (BS, BTech, BArch, BFA, BS Ed) degrees, and a few certificates |
| Programs | 58 degree programs: 26 associate and 32 bachelor’s (college’s areas-of-study page, October 2026) |
| Accreditation | Middle States Commission on Higher Education; reaffirmed 25 June 2026, next self-study 2033-34 |
| Federal aid | Yes (federal school code 002696; New York TAP code 1405) |
| Tuition | $3,465 a semester full-time for New York residents; $620 a credit for nonresidents (current published rates) |
| Students | 15,252 undergraduates in fall 2025, 62% full-time |
| Founded | 1946; merged with Voorhees Technical Institute in 1971 |
| Facts checked | October 2026 |
City Tech: CUNY’s college of technology in Downtown Brooklyn
New York City College of Technology, usually called City Tech, is a senior college of the City University of New York for technical and professional programs. It awards associate and bachelor’s degrees, so students can start with a two-year degree and continue on the same campus. According to the college’s fact sheet, it was founded in 1946 as the New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, joined CUNY in 1964 and merged in 1971 with Voorhees Technical Institute, a school dating from 1882. It enrolled 15,252 undergraduates in fall 2025, most of them from Brooklyn and Queens. Its newest degrees include a Cybersecurity BS, launched in fall 2025.
Career programs at City Tech
City Tech lists 58 degree programs, 26 associate and 32 bachelor’s, across schools of professional studies, technology and design, and arts and sciences. The table covers the career programs most relevant to trade and technical jobs. Every program is taught on the Brooklyn campus, and tuition is the same CUNY rate for all of them.
| Program | Credential | Programmatic accreditation | Prepares for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing | AAS (pre-licensure); BS for licensed RNs | ACEN | NCLEX-RN, New York RN licence |
| Dental Hygiene | AAS; anesthesiology certificate | CODA | NBDHE and clinical licensure exams |
| Radiologic Technology & Medical Imaging | AAS; Radiological Science BS | JRCERT (AAS) | ARRT radiography exam |
| Electrical Engineering Technology | AAS, BTech | ETAC of ABET (AAS) | Electronic technician jobs |
| Architecture | BArch; Architectural Technology AAS, BTech | NAAB (BArch) | Architect licensure path (BArch) |
| Construction Engineering Technology | BTech | ETAC of ABET | Construction manager and technologist roles |
| Construction Management Technology | AAS; certificate | – | Assistant estimator, inspector and similar roles |
| Computer Information Systems / Computer Systems | AAS / BTech | – | – |
| Cybersecurity | BS (from fall 2025) | – | – |
| Paralegal Studies | AAS, BS | ABA approval | Paralegal work |
| Hospitality Management | AAS, BTech | – | – |
The health programs carry the most outside oversight: ACEN for nursing, CODA for dental hygiene and JRCERT for radiography. The catalog names ABA approval for the Paralegal Studies BS, and the department says both paralegal degrees are ABA-accredited, and the BArch is NAAB-accredited. Engineering technology at City Tech means technician and technologist degrees; the electrical program trains electronic technicians, not licensed electricians.
What the main programs cover
Nursing
The Nursing AAS is the college’s pre-licensure registered nurse program, taught on the sixth floor of the Academic Building at 285 Jay Street. Students do clinical rotations in affiliated New York City hospitals, community health agencies and long-term-care facilities. Nursing sets its own admission and progression requirements on top of admission to City Tech. Graduates sit the NCLEX-RN, and those who become licensed can return for the RN-to-BS, which has its own ACEN accreditation and a next visit due in 2029.
Dental Hygiene
Dental hygiene students train in the program’s patient clinic in room A-701 of the Academic Building at 285 Jay Street. The AAS prepares graduates for the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination and for the clinical licensure exams the college reports on, the PTCE and CSCE; first-attempt CSCE results were 100% every year from 2021 to 2025. The program has its own entry requirements, and the catalog lists a Dental Hygiene–Anesthesiology certificate for further training.
Radiologic Technology & Medical Imaging
The radiography AAS prepares students for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) exam and carries an eight-year JRCERT award, 2024 to 2032. Entry is separate from admission to the college, with its own entry and clinical requirements, and the department runs admissions town halls for applicants, including in spring 2026. The department also offers a Radiological Science BS. The department’s program-effectiveness report was posted as a blank template, so we could not confirm any pass or placement rates.
Electrical Engineering Technology
This ABET-accredited AAS is taught in the Voorhees Building at 186 Jay Street, and the college says it prepares graduates for careers as electronic technicians. The department names ConEd, Verizon, the MTA and Honeywell among employers of its graduates. Students can continue into the Electrical Engineering Technology BTech at City Tech; Telecommunications Engineering Technology is a separate bachelor’s. The program trains electronic technicians, not electricians, and is not an electrician licence route.
Construction
Construction Management Technology is an AAS, with a shorter certificate, for entry roles such as assistant superintendent, assistant estimator, assistant project manager, surveying technician, construction inspector and CAD technician. Construction Engineering Technology is a BTech accredited by ETAC of ABET, which the college calls the only program of its kind in CUNY; it prepares construction managers, superintendents, safety directors, field inspectors and civil engineering technologists. Neither is a craft apprenticeship: both prepare students for supervisory and technical jobs on construction projects.
Tuition and how students pay
City Tech charges the CUNY senior-college rates below. The bursar’s page shows no effective date, and New York continued the SUNY and CUNY tuition freeze in January 2026, so these are the current published rates. The same rates apply to associate and bachelor’s programs.
| Current published rates | New York residents | Nonresidents |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time tuition | $3,465 a semester | $620 a credit |
| Part-time tuition | $305 a credit | $620 a credit |
| Mandatory fees | $200.65 a semester full-time; $102.30 part-time | Same |
| Application fee | $65 freshman, $70 transfer | Same |
A full-time New York resident pays about $7,331 a year in tuition and fees. A full-time nonresident pays $620 a credit, which College Navigator puts at $15,282 a year for 2024-25. Program costs come on top: nursing students, for example, pay a $343 NCLEX-RN licensure fee and $400 to $500 for an NCLEX prep and exam program. City Tech takes federal student aid (school code 002696) and New York’s TAP grant (code 1405). College Navigator gives an average net price of $5,794 for 2023-24, for full-time first-time in-state students receiving grant aid; it is the cost after grants, not the full cost of attendance.
Admission through CUNY, with separate entry to health programs
Students apply through the CUNY application. College Navigator reports that 80% of the 24,745 applicants for fall 2024 were admitted. Nursing, Dental Hygiene and Radiologic Technology have their own entry and clinical requirements, so admission to the college does not guarantee a seat in those programs. In fall 2025, 62% of students studied full-time and 38% part-time.
Accreditation and results
City Tech has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education since 1957. MSCHE reaffirmed its accreditation on 25 June 2026, after a self-study and a March 2026 site visit, with no follow-up report required; the next self-study is due in 2033-34. The MSCHE “Evidence of Accreditation” document on the college’s own website is dated February 2023 and still shows the old 2025-26 self-study date. Program accreditors are ACEN (nursing), CODA (dental hygiene), JRCERT (radiography), NAAB (BArch), ETAC of ABET (Electrical Engineering Technology AAS and Construction Engineering Technology BTech) and the ABA (paralegal).
| Measure | Result | Period and source |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing AAS, first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate | 75.61% (93 of 123); New York associate-degree average 81.51% | 2025, NYSED |
| Nursing AAS, first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate | 78.63% (2024); 82.4% (2023) | NYSED |
| Dental Hygiene, NBDHE first-attempt pass rate | 94% | 2024, college program page |
| Dental Hygiene, completion | 86% (68 of 79) | 2025, college program page |
| Graduation rate | 21% within 150% of normal time | Students entering fall 2018, College Navigator |
| Retention | 65% of full-time, first-time bachelor’s-degree students returned | Fall 2023 to fall 2024, College Navigator |
NYSED lists the nursing results under the college’s former name, New York City Technical College. We found no published outcome rates for radiography, electrical engineering technology, construction, paralegal or hospitality.
Before you enroll
- The Nursing AAS first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate has fallen two years in a row, from 82.4% in 2023 to 75.61% in 2025, below New York’s 2025 associate-degree average of 81.51%.
- Only 21% of students who started in fall 2018 graduated within 150% of normal time, and 33% transferred out, according to College Navigator.
- Getting into City Tech is not the same as getting into nursing, dental hygiene or radiography, which have separate entry requirements.
- Electrical Engineering Technology trains electronic technicians and does not lead to an electrician’s licence.
- Nonresidents pay $620 a credit with no full-time flat rate, about twice what New York residents pay.
One campus, several buildings
City Tech has one campus. Its main address is 300 Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn, where four connected buildings share the site. Nursing and Dental Hygiene are in the Academic Building at 285 Jay Street, and engineering technology programs are in the Voorhees Building at 186 Jay Street. Very few classes meet in the Environmental Center (172 Pearl Street), the Howard Building (25 Chapel Street) or the DNA Learning Center (62 Tillary Street).
Clinicals and the patient clinic
Nursing and dental hygiene include supervised patient care: nursing students rotate through affiliated New York City hospitals, community health agencies and long-term-care facilities, and dental hygiene students treat patients in the college’s own clinic.
What students say
On Niche, City Tech is rated 3.4 out of 5 from 1,091 reviews, with an overall grade of C+ (checked 11 October 2026). Reviewers most often praise practical, hands-on learning, knowledgeable and supportive professors, and the Downtown Brooklyn location for internships. The most common complaints are little social life, outdated facilities, limited food options, and administrative and scheduling problems. The reviews cover the whole college rather than particular programs, and we could not tell whether they were invited by the school or posted in bursts.
Sources
Checked October 2026: MSCHE institution page · City Tech areas of study · Tuition · Nursing department · NYSED RN NCLEX results · Dental Hygiene accreditation and outcomes · College Navigator · Niche
Programs & Courses
Nursing and Health
- Nursing (AAS, pre-licensure RN)
- Nursing (BS, RN-to-BS)
- Dental Hygiene (AAS)
- Radiologic Technology & Medical Imaging (AAS)
- Radiological Science (BS)
- Dental Laboratory Technology (AAS)
- Ophthalmic Dispensing (AAS)
- Health Services Administration (BS)
- Healthcare Policy and Management (BS)
- Biomedical Informatics (BS)
- Health Science (AS, transfer degree)
Architecture and Construction
- Architecture (BArch)
- Architectural Technology (AAS, BTech)
- Construction Management Technology (AAS)
- Construction Engineering Technology (BTech)
- Civil Engineering Technology (AAS)
- Environmental Control Technology (AAS)
- Facilities Management (BTech)
Engineering Technology
- Electrical Engineering Technology (AAS, BTech)
- Telecommunications Engineering Technology (BTech)
- Computer Engineering Technology (AAS, BTech)
- Mechanical Engineering Technology (AAS, BTech)
- Industrial Design Technology (AAS)
Computing
- Computer Information Systems (AAS)
- Computer Systems (BTech)
- Cybersecurity (BS)
- Software Engineering Technology (BS)
- Data Science (BS)
- Computer Science (AS)
Business, Law and Hospitality
- Accounting (AAS)
- Marketing Management & Sales (AAS)
- Business & Technology of Fashion (AS, BS)
- Hospitality Management (AAS, BTech)
- Paralegal Studies (AAS, BS)
Design and Media
- Communication Design (AAS, BFA)
- Entertainment Technology (BTech)
- Emerging Media Technology (BTech)
Human Services and Teaching
- Human Services (AAS, BS)
- Career & Technical Teacher Education (BS Ed)
- Technology Teacher Education (BS Ed)
- Mathematics Education (BS)
Arts and Sciences
- Applied Chemistry (BS)
- Chemical Technology (AS)
- Applied Mathematics (BS)
- Applied Computational Physics (BS)
- Data Analytics/Economics (BS)
- Professional & Technical Writing (BS)
- Health Communication (BS)
- Liberal Arts & Science (AA, AS)
Campus Locations
New York (Brooklyn), NY 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201