Co-op Required
Salary and Career Info
Print and Graphic Media Technology BS
In this graphic communication major, you'll become a highly-skilled communication professional who will create robust marketing materials for the communication, publishing, and packaging graphics industries.
Program skills
Media arts and technology is a unique major that reflects the convergence of technologies that allow content to be created, formatted, stored, and then shared via computer-based publications, printed material, online services, and various forms of interactive media. This approach enables our students to build skills not only in traditional publishing but also in database management, new media production, networking, and mobile communications. The major is designed to provide students with the ability to use various content types across multiple output media. The major also allows students to explore other areas of study, including advertising and media strategy, contemporary publishing, content management, digital imaging and premedia, print production, print quality, and 3D computer graphics.
Program facilities equipment
At least 14 labs with over $40 million in up-to-date equipment are available for student coursework and research. Students quickly become accustomed to the latest in print and packaging pre-press, digital composition and publishing, electronically controlled presses, digital printing, content management, imaging systems, bindery equipment, color management technologies, computerized estimating systems, and emerging technologies including AR and VR systems, and more.
Program job titles
Account Executive; Application Specialist / Systems Engineer; Customer Service Representative; Digital Services Specialist; Estimator; Marketing and Communications Coordinator; Pre-Press Technician; Print Production Manager; Publishing Coordinator; Quality Management
Select program hiring partners
Apple; ColorDynamics; Flower City Printing; Hammer Packaging; Infinity Marketing Solutions, Inc.; Mercury Print; PAR Government Systems Corporation; Punch Studio; SCG Packaging; Seifert Graphics; Ultraprint Corporation; Wilsonart; Xerox; Velocity
100%
Outcome Rates for Print and Graphic Media Technology BS
Total percentage of graduates who have entered the workforce, enrolled in full-time graduate study, or are pursuing alternative plans (military service, volunteering, etc.).
100%
Knowledge Rate
Total percentage of graduates for whom RIT has verifiable data, compared to national average knowledge rate of 41% per NACE.
| Outcome | % of Students |
|---|---|
| Employed | 50.00% |
| Full-time Graduate Study | 50.00% |
| Alternative Plans | 0% |
Experiential Learning
Cooperative Education
What’s different about an RIT education? It’s the career experience you gain by completing cooperative education and internships with top companies in every single industry. You’ll earn more than a degree. You’ll gain real-world career experience that sets you apart. It’s exposure–early and often–to a variety of professional work environments, career paths, and industries.
Co-ops and internships take your knowledge and turn it into know-how. Your co-ops will provide hands-on experience that enables you to apply your engineering knowledge in professional settings while you make valuable connections between classwork and real-world applications.
RIT’s print and graphic media technology major requires students to complete two co-ops where you will gain hands-on experience in the graphic media, digital media, packaging, and publishing industries. These full-time, paid work experiences prepare you to apply your classroom knowledge and gain practical experience that is highly valued by companies looking to hire the next generation of graphic media professionals.