Respected internationally as a world leader in career-oriented and professional education, the Rochester Institute of Technology has been setting an innovative pace since its inception in 1829. Today the Institute has a combined graduate and undergraduate school enrollment of approximately 16, 000 students in eight colleges. Nationally, RIT is described as one of American most imitated institutions. U.S. News & World Report has recognized it as one of the nations leading universities in the East for its science and technology programs. For more information, please visit www.rit.edu.

RIT is chartered by the legislature of the State of New York and accredited by the Commissioner on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In addition to institutional accreditation, curricula in each college is accredited by appropriate professional accreditation bodies.

July 30, 2008