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RIT Liberal Arts brings the humanities and social sciences into the digital age.

You’ll innovate, play, and grow in our human-centered, tech-infused environment. Our faculty is a caring community of compassionate and confident creators, ready to support and guide you as you pursue your passion. Committed change-makers thrive in a place where people care as much about bettering the world as they do helping each other. Welcome to liberal arts for doers. Where future leaders turn “What If?” into “I Will.”

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Statistics

4:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

Classes are small and students receive personal attention from faculty and staff.

13

Countries represented

Students from across the United States and from 13 countries are enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts.

$12.3+M

Sponsored research funding

$12,367,475 in sponsored research funding has been awarded to the College of Liberal Arts in the last five years (2019–2023)

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What Interests You?

Meet the Interim Dean

Kelly Norris Martin

From our legal systems and economic, political, social structures to the ways we connect, share our stories, and form our most fundamental relationships, the Liberal Arts are at the very heart of what it means to be human. At RIT—a technical university renowned for vision and innovation—our approach to the Liberal Arts is human-centered and tech-infused, distinguishing our grads with the skills for a digital age and the mindset to thrive, think big, and transform ideas of “what if” into commitments of “I will."

Kelly Norris Martin
Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts
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  • December 1, 2023

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    Distinguished Alumni Award winners named for 2023-2024

    Twelve RIT alumni have been honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards for the 2023-2024 year. The Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented annually by each of RIT’s nine colleges, the School of Individualized Study, and the RIT Graduate School to alumni who have performed at the highest levels of their profession or who have contributed to the advancement and leadership of civic, philanthropic, or service organizations.

  • November 17, 2023

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    Liberal Arts alumna tackles national security challenges

    The employee roster of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is, as expected, full of scientists, engineers, and cybersecurity experts. But there is one RIT College of Liberal Arts alumna among the ranks of experts at the lab working to solve some of the nation’s most complex national security challenges.