RIT international campuses open doors to ‘remote start’ students
Cecilia Mao and Tanvi Thakur planned to start their first days as RIT Tigers in Rochester. As the COVID pandemic unfolded across the globe, the students from China and India shifted plans. They took advantage of onsite alternatives at RIT’s global campuses and a variety of online offerings.
Mao started her first year in civil engineering technology at RIT China in Weihai. Thakur, who just began the communication master’s program, is taking all of her classes online. Like many of RIT’s international students accepted at the Rochester campus, they were unable to get to the U.S. because of travel and visa restrictions, but RIT found ways to provide students with enrollment alternatives and connections to classmates at all the university’s campuses.