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About RIT
Mission and Vision
Mission
The RIT community engages and motivates students through stimulating and collaborative experiences. Our mission is to provide technology-based educational programs for personal and professional development. We rigorously pursue new and emerging career areas. We develop and deliver curricula and advance scholarship relevant to emerging technologies and social conditions. Our community is committed to diversity and student centeredness and is distinguished by our innovative and collaborative spirit.
Internal and external partnerships expand our students’ experiential learning. RIT is committed to mutually enriching relationships with alumni, government, business and the world community. Teaching, learning, scholarship, leadership development, and student success are our central enterprises.
Vision
RIT will lead higher education in preparing students for successful careers in a global society.
Values
Student Centeredness…exhibits behavior, performs duties of position, and/or makes decisions that demonstrate and/or support the importance of students as the primary constituency of the university and/or contributes directly to student success.
Professional Development and Scholarship…takes actions to continuously advance and/or improve in one’s academic or professional discipline: as an individual contributor; as a team member; and/or as an organizational leader.
Integrity and Ethics…does what it takes to deliver on commitments made to the department, college, or division and to constituency groups. Builds personal trust and relationships inside and outside the university by doing what one says he or she will do when it is promised.
Respect, Diversity, and Pluralism…provides a high level of service to fellow members of the RIT community. Treats every person with dignity. Demonstrates inclusion by incorporating diverse perspectives to plan, conduct, and/or evaluate the work of the organization, department, college, or division.
Innovation and Flexibility…provides and/or encourages new ideas that could make the department, college, or division an even better organization. Open to and adapts well to change.
Teamwork and Collaboration...contributes to the efforts of the department, division, or college as a team player. Works well with others outside the department to accomplish cross-college or divisional goals and objectives.
Colleges
The university consists of eight colleges:
- College of Applied Science and Technology
- E. Philip Saunders College of Business
- G. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
- Kate Gleason College of Engineering
- College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts
- College of Science
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Awards and Recognition
- Recognized as one of the top universities in the north for academic reputation
- One of America’s "Best College Values" (U.S. News and World Report)
- Ranks third largest producer among all private universities of undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
- Number one producer of all institutions nationally of undergraduate computing degrees
- Ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the 25 Most Connected Campuses for computing resources
- Recognized by U.S. News and World Report as offering one of the best internship/co-operative education programs in the country
- Included in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s inaugural "Great Colleges to Work For" list in the July 18, 2008 issue
For more info on RIT, please read the About RIT page.