Health & Design, M.S.
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Explore innovation in planning, architecture, and design, prioritizing health and wellness. Integrate emerging technologies and scientific knowledge to mitigate the global environmental crises’ impact on health. Experiment with computational design, prototyping, and intelligent materials to shape spatial futures and rethink the built environment’s human impact.
Why Earn a Master’s in Health & Design at New York Tech?
In the Master of Science in Health and Design program you’ll take an ecosystemic and embodied approach to design and health, investigating their impact on humans holistically. Create adaptive environments, tools, and materials, fostering health and well-being for all. Learn how to reshape lived experiences through design.
Collaborate on inclusive design and purpose-driven projects exploring design’s impact on health, environment, and healthcare. We aim to broaden access to care and well-being, enhancing health for everyone.
This curriculum will challenge you to redefine health beyond symptoms, fostering competency in creating healthy environments and products. Faculty explore new ground in community resilience, focusing on health, urban, and material systems.
This interdisciplinary program centers on people, exploring emerging materials and technologies to innovate design practice. It brings together educators and experts from diverse fields to address health from systemic and embodied perspectives, aiming to solve global challenges through advanced design solutions.
Upon graduation, students pursue leadership roles in design consulting, AEC firms, healthcare device manufacturing, health insurance, municipal planning, and more.
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What You’ll Learn
You’ll be equipped with design skills in 3-D modeling, analysis and simulation software, fabrication and material methods, along with theoretical, historical, and professional knowledge, so you may enter practice or further education in health-related design.
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Summer Abroad Programs
Acquire a broad, global perspective of the role of architecture and related technologies. Whether in New York or overseas, you’ll learn from architects, designers, and industry professionals while observing various built environments.
Design Workshops
Through workshops and collaborative experiences, students from across the School of Architecture and Design use their knowledge to actively assist communities in need due to ecological, social, or economic factors.
Fabrication Labs
Define your vision and deepen your creativity in two Fabrication Labs equipped with advanced tools for 3-D printing models, experimenting with AI, constructing virtual and simulated environments, and exploring the capabilities of robotics.
M.S. in Architecture, Computational Technologies
Harness the creative capabilities of emerging technologies—from new materials to data that refines your designs to robotic systems in fabrication.
M.S. in Architecture, Urban Design
Rethink tomorrow’s cities while exploring how to use architecture as an agent of social change. While conducting research, you’ll deepen your knowledge of urbanism and explore current social, environmental, and technological factors.
Masters in Architecture
Whether you have an undergraduate pre-professional degree in architecture or a bachelor’s degree in another area of study, the New York Tech Master of Architecture program offers a pathway to a professional degree.
Stats & Rankings
#11
Best architecture colleges and universities in New York
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Top 17%
U.S. colleges for salary potential, based on alumni’s mid-career earnings
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licensed architects in New York state are graduates of New York Tech than any other school.
Career & Salary Outlook
Job Growth
Employment of architects is projected to grow 5 percent from 2022 to 2032, with approximately 8,200 openings for architects projected each year (BLS).
Employers & Internships
- H2M Architects + Engineers
- Campbell Design and Construction
- Spector Group Architects
- MDM Design Group
Career Options
- Architectural Designer
- Construction Technology Manager
- Urban/Space Planner
- Digital Designer
- Fabrication Specialist
Salary Projections
The median annual wage for architects was $93,310 in May 2023. The highest 10 percent earned more than $151,300 (BLS).
Program Details
Learn more about the Health and Design, M.S. program, including admission requirements, how to apply, and scholarship/funding opportunities.
- A degree from an accredited institution in the disciplinary arenas of design (architecture, interiors, furnishing, industrial, product, fashion, etc.) and engineering, healthcare and wellness, biology and chemical fields (with expertise in innovative technologies and bio-materials), or equivalent if applying with a foreign degree from another country.
- Minimum GPA of 3.0.
- No standardized tests (including GRE) are required, except TOEFL/IELTS for international students.
- If an applicant does not meet the admissions criteria, it may be possible, at the discretion of the program director, to be admitted for a probationary period.
Application Materials
All applicants must provide the following information before submitting the required supplemental materials (curriculum vitae, personal essay, and digital portfolio):
- Completed application and $50 nonrefundable application fee.
- Two letters of recommendation.
- Optional Interview: You are encouraged to meet with Christian Pongratz, professor and program director. Email Christian.pongratz@nyit.edu to schedule an appointment.
- Copies of undergraduate transcripts for all schools attended. All final, official transcripts must be received prior to the start of your first semester.
- Copy of college diploma or proof of degree.
- International student requirements: English proficiency (TOEFL/IELTS), I-20, and transcript evaluation.
Explore opportunities to offset program costs, including New York Tech scholarships, graduate assistantships, and federal financial aid.
International F-1 students who successfully complete this degree program are eligible for an additional 24-month STEM OPT extension to work in the U.S. in an area directly related to their area of study immediately upon completing the customary 12-month post-completion Optional Practical Training (OPT).
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