The University Magazine
Pulling for women
Where the women are
The overall percentage of women, holding at 30-32 percent for more than 25 years, increased to 33 percent this year. The ratio varies from college to college and some of RIT’s 200-plus academic programs attract a majority of women.
Here’s the percentage of women by college:
- College of Imaging Arts and Sciences: 56 percent
- College of Liberal Arts: 54 percent
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf: 51 percent
- College of Science: 48 percent
- Saunders College of Business: 41 percent
- College of Applied Science and Technology: 29 percent (not counting the college’s programs in Croatia and Kosovo)
- Kate Gleason College of Engineering: 15 percent
- Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences: 10 percent