Located in Rochester, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was
founded in 1829 by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and other Rochester community
leaders as the Athenaeum, an association “for the purpose of cultivating and
promoting literature, science, and the arts.”
The campus now occupies 1,300 acres in suburban Rochester, the third
largest city in New York State. With
over 14,000 undergraduates and almost 3,000 graduate students on campus, RIT is
one of the largest universities in the country, conferring Associates,
Bachelors, Masters Degrees, Doctorates, and advance certificates.
Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational
university with nine colleges emphasizing career education and experiential
learning. RIT has the fourth-oldest and
one of the largest cooperative education programs in the world, annually
placing more than 3,500 students in more than 5,500 co-op assignments with
nearly 2,000 employers across the United States and overseas. Interestingly, RIT is also the home campus
for the federally sponsored National Technical Institute for the Deaf, which
had been established in 1963 by Public Law 89-36 and signed by President Lyndon
B. Johnson.
At both the graduate and undergraduate levels, RIT is ranked among the
Top 10 Schools for Video Game Design Study in the 2011 Princeton Review/GamePro
Media second annual rankings. So it
comes as no surprise that the men to women ratio are skewed 2:1.
Strangely, RIT is in the process of converting its quarter system back
into the typical semester system with fall and spring. One wonders at the reasoning behind the
change.
Admittedly, there is much less press on RIT then it’s peer engineering
schools of MIT and RPI. It sits on Lake
Ontario and is six hours away from the bigger cities of Boston and New York
City. Housing is only guaranteed for
freshmen. Most upper classmen live off
campus.
Students who applied to RIT also looked at MIT, Alfred University, and
Clarkson University. For more information on Rochester Institute of Technology, visit
RIT is located at One Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY
14623
(585) 475-2411
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