Bachelor of Science in Behavioral Sciences - Sociology or Social Work (STEM)

at New York Institute of Technology - New York City Campus USA

Master how to provide design leadership and contribute to an increasingly sustainable built environment by studying the past, present, and future of meaningful architectural design.

What You’ll Learn
The M.Arch program at New York Tech helps you develop a critical understanding of historic and contemporary practices, cultures, and movements in the industry, preparing you to become a visionary leader and problem solver.

The program has two options:

• A two-year professional degree track for those with a pre-professional degree in architecture
• A three-year professional degree track for those with a bachelor’s degree in another area

Both options offer opportunities for travel abroad studios, workshops, and summer and semester programs at New York Tech’s international university partners in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Throughout your program, you’ll engage in experimental, innovative challenges in areas including digital design and fabrication, advanced architectural technology, and environmental urbanism.

Kickstart a flexible and lucrative career integrating IT-based solutions that solve problems for companies around the world.

What You’ll Learn

In the Information Technology, B.S., you’ll learn to design, implement, and evaluate computer-based systems and programs to solve an organization’s challenges. You can also tailor your degree to build skills in business, telecommunications, digital media, and database management to suit your goals and interests.

You’ll learn from full-time faculty and have the opportunity to work alongside them on research projects funded by the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and more. Many students publish their research in recognized journals under the Undergraduate Research & Entrepreneurial Program (UREP).

Become a master of design technology and benefit from deep industry partnerships, gaining hands-on experience and making crucial job connections through competitions, workshops, and more.

What You’ll Learn

Our top-ranked, forward-thinking Interior Design B.F.A. program positions you at the forefront of technology and design. You’ll acquire advanced skills in specifications, modeling, and 3-D visualization, all while developing your personal design practice and sensibility through innovative design challenges and the study of contemporary issues such as sustainability, new materials, and more.

With an in-depth industry focus, the Interior Design, B.F.A. allows you to benefit from hands-on experiential learning through competitions, workshops, and other events in collaboration with industry partners. You’ll gain extensive experience working in dedicated studio spaces and from leveraging new professional connections with prestigious organizations, such as the Retail Design Institute.

You’ll work side-by-side with professional faculty who are leaders in the fields of architecture, interior design, furniture design, lighting design, and the arts, as well as prolific academics at the top of their industries.

Help solve the world’s grand challenges by innovating new medicines, creating new food sources, and more with courses and research in biotechnology and beyond.

What You’ll Learn

• The Biotechology, B.S. helps you achieve your goal of improving quality of life, from curing diseases to producing renewable fuels to creating pharmaceuticals.
• After a core curriculum in humanities and research principles and practices, you’ll gain a solid foundation in biology, chemistry, and cell and molecular biology through our innovative, curriculum. You’ll also undertake research side-by-side with faculty scientists in areas such as virology, bioprocessing, and even entrepreneurial technology and innovation management.

Capitalize on the growing demand for cybersecurity professionals as more companies realize the need to protect against threats to their data, IT assets, and other resources.

What You’ll Learn

• Help companies around the world keep important data safe, limit risks, and recover from attacks with the Cybersecurity, M.S. This program is ideally suited for those with engineering or computer science undergraduate degrees.
• You’ll design, implement, and maintain software tools to support network security across multiple operating systems, overseeing the information lifecycle of an organization from planning and acquisition to implementation. You’ll also study algorithm concepts, computer forensics, risk management and legal issues, and intrusion detection and hacker exploits.
• You’ll then put classroom-learned theory into practice through hands-on projects and research—some completed side-by-side with leading faculty working on innovations in areas including biometrics, conceptual modeling, cryptography, cyber behavioral authentication, genomic computation, mobile and cybersecurity, and swarm intelligence.

Launch your career solving the world’s most pressing medical challenges by learning both the sciences and the latest technologies crucial to the biomedical engineering industry.

What You’ll Learn

The Life Sciences - Biomedical Engineering, B.S. helps you learn to leverage core biological principles to solve a vast spectrum of medical problems.

With a focus on biomedical engineering, your curriculum covers a range from calculus-based mathematics and anatomy to physiology and biomedical physics. You’ll infuse technology into your program by taking classes in computer programming, electrical circuits and electronics, and microprocessors, preparing you for graduate work in bioengineering.

Chart your own future by customizing a degree program that maximizes your past educational experience and allows you to gain specialization in up to three different areas.

What You’ll Learn

Explore your unique interests in the Interdisciplinary Studies, B.A., B.S., B.P.S. by designing a multifaceted program tailored to one or several career fields.

You can select from a range of pre-selected career maps that align closely with careers and industries with high-growth potential, or chart your own path combining three professional or liberal arts concentrations.

For ultimate flexibility, you attend classes at our New York City or Long Island campuses or take them online, whenever or wherever you like. Plus, whether you're transferring to New York Tech from another institution, or just looking to change your major, our advisors will work with you to choose courses that best suit your academic and career goals and to ensure you find the quickest and most rewarding path to graduation.

Gain the technological and analytical skills you'll need to become a highly sought-after computer science professional trained to handle big data.

What You’ll Learn

• The Computer Science, B.S. program with a concentration in Big Data Management & Analytics is a joint effort between IBM and New York Tech that will prepare you for a role understanding and managing one of the world’s most important assets—big data.
• You’ll study a variety of topics such as data collection, data organization, information retrieval, and data mining. You’ll also complete lab exercises that use IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM INfoSphere Streams.

The MSAUD program is at the forefront of urban design research focused on issues of urbanization through the exploration of social, environmental, and technological domains. Gain a global perspective on urbanism through the study of iconic New York City and diverse urban metropolitan regions around the world.

Highlights

• History/Theory of Urbanism
• Advanced Systems of Representation for Urban Design
• Climate change, Resiliency
• Landscape Urbanism, Infrastructures, Ecology, Sustainable and Biophilic Cities
• Urban Technology, Data-driven Urban Analytics, Computational Urbanism, Smart Technologies, Environmental Modeling
• Socio-Cultural dynamics, Community Engagement, Urban-Public Interest Design, Public Space
• Social Justice, Equity, Public Health

Gain the visual UX/UI design strategies and digital development skills to plan, design, and develop human-friendly interactivity for web, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), voice user interface (VUI) and other applications.

What You’ll Learn
The UX/UI Design and Development, M.A., is a one-year program where you’ll learn how to strategize, design, and develop user experience/user interface in industries ranging from entertainment and media production to aerospace, architecture, medicine, and more.

Develop human-centered design strategies through the use of empathy, mental models, information architecture, user-flow, and prototyping. Our program focuses on:

• User experience & interface design
• User centered & human centered design
• Human-computer interaction
• VR/AR/MR/Voice
• Prototype design
• User research & usability testing
• VR/AR/MR/VOICE