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Global Campus Locations
In addition to Rochester, N.Y., RIT has campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.
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Pulitzer Prizes
Nine RIT alumni have won 13 Pulitzer Prizes in photojournalism.
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Largest in STEM
RIT is the third largest producer of undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degrees among all private universities in the nation.
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Outcome Rate
For each of the past three years, 95 percent of RIT graduates enter either the workforce or graduate study within six months of graduation.
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RIT in Top 50 for High School Counselors
RIT is among the top 50 choices of high school counselors, according to U.S. News & World Report 2019 rankings.
Message from the President
RIT is one of the top universities in the nation working at the intersection of technology, the arts and design. We are a university that is shaping the future and improving the world through creativity and innovation … We put a high value on bringing goodness to the world.
David C. Munson Jr.
President
www.rit.edu/president
munson@rit.edu
Faces of RIT
Merging Past and Present
RIT’s Cary Graphics Art Collection allows students to view printing styles and graphic art from thousands of years ago. In order to preserve these artifacts, Klibanow is working with other students and faculty to create a virtual viewing experience.
Biodegradable Packaging
Diaz Acosta’s research in sustainable packaging led his class to a biodegradable solution. Developing corn-based packaging is not only being used to counteract the amount of food waste going into landfills, but also making the world a more sustainable place.
A Spit Take
Guy’s biomedical science research is analyzing microbes linked to cardiac disease. She’s hoping to keep the population healthy one vial of saliva at a time.
Connecting Kids to Science
Over the summer, Devon taught a workshop called “Experiments in Science” to a group of children from RIT’s Kids on Campus program. By helping to change their perspectives on who and what a scientist is, Devon is shaping the minds of tomorrow’s scientists.
Latest News
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March 26, 2019
RIT students spend Alternative Spring Break helping communities in need
More than 40 RIT students spent a week during Alternative Spring Break clearing hundreds of pounds of trash from beaches, painting school buildings and preventing erosion while providing a habitat for oysters.
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March 26, 2019
RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume hunt for ripples in space and time
The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. And several RIT researchers are preparing to pore over the new data to help uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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March 26, 2019
Cornel West and Robert George ‘Agree to Disagree’ at RIT
Political philosophers Cornel West, a progressive professor of public philosophy at Harvard University and professor emeritus at Princeton University, and Robert George, a conservative legal scholar at Princeton, will discuss the importance of learning how to disagree with respect, civility and humor during RIT's Center for Statesmanship, Law & Liberty’s sixth Annual Symposium.
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March 17, 2019
RIT/NTID to expand education and training through DeafTEC Resource Center
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to DeafTEC: Technological Education Center for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students, which will be used to transition the program into a resource center. The goal of the DeafTEC Resource Center is to increase the number of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in highly skilled technician jobs in which there continues to be underrepresentation and underutilization of such individuals in the workplace.
