Campus Tours, Financial Aid Sessions, Meet the Faculty among the Highlights
(Long Island, NY) College-bound students and their families will want to save the date – Saturday, April 16 – for Spring Open House at Farmingdale State College. The event begins at 10 a.m. and concludes at 1 p.m.
The Campus Center is the starting place, and will be the focal point for many offices including financial aid, admissions, athletics, residential life and student activities.
Students and their families have choices as to what to do first. They can go on a tour, head over to a classroom building to talk to professors, start a conversation with the athletics staff in the Campus Center or attend an information session in Gleeson Hall.
Special information sessions will be offered in Gleeson Hall at:
- Nursing – 10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
- Admissions -11 a.m.
- Financial Aid -noon
Deans, professors and current students from Farmingdale’s four schools – Business, Engineering Technology, Health Sciences, and Arts & Sciences – will be in their classroom buildings to discuss the college’s 38 bachelor and associate degree programs.
In addition, there will be tours of the residence halls; Memorial Art Gallery; science and computer labs, and the Teaching Gardens. Buses will leave from the front of the Campus Center to the campus athletic complex and fitness center and to the aviation flight center.
Registration is open now at https://www.farmingdale.edu/admissions/open-house. Check back on the FSC homepage for details on the day’s activities.
Farmingdale State College prepares students with the education, skills, and critical thinking needed to meet tomorrow’s challenges. As the largest of SUNY’s colleges of technology (with almost 8,700 students), FSC equips students with the resources and knowledge sought by today’s emerging industries. Offering bachelor and associate degrees, FSC will soon offer its first graduate program. At FSC, students learn in small, personalized classes and have abundant opportunities for applied learning—internships, clinical training, and guided research—that provide practical instruction and personal growth. Located an hour east of Manhattan, the campus offers residential halls, a lush 380-acre campus undergoing major renovation, and a highly successful NCAA Division III athletics program with modern facilities to make FSC one of the fastest-growing colleges in the region. In addition, in 2015, 2014 and 2013, FSC was listed one of the best colleges in the North and in 2013 FSC was the only SUNY school (and the only LI school) listed in the LEAST debt category in the section titled Student Debt Load at Graduation for regional colleges in the north. In 2015 UniversityPrimeTime.com again listed FSC the fifth safest college in the nation. Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/farmingdale.
