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RIT has 13 Ph.D. programs currently enrolling 492 students. Munson’s time at RIT has seen the addition of seven Ph.D. programs, including cognitive science and physics this past fall.

The college completed more than $25 million of upgrades and renovations to Max Lowenthal Hall. Designed by LaBella Associates, the space nearly doubled the size of RIT’s business college, adding more than 35,000 square feet.

RIT has nearly doubled global opportunities in the past eight years, with 701 students participating in international experiences in the 2023-2024 academic year.

RIT Dubai, one of the university’s five global campuses, opened phase one of its new campus in 2021 and is now on to phase two, set to be complete in 2027. The new construction will be done in two stages and will help boost the campus enrollment to 4,000 students.

Today, there are 51 endowed professorships at RIT. Thirteen of those have been established since 2017. These named professorships help provide both the recognition and the resources that the highest caliber faculty and experts in their field deserve.

RIT’s athletics teams have been a powerhouse over the past decade, and now they’re getting the facilities to match their success. At the northern end of campus, a new facility for track and field welcomes visitors.

The 750 RIT undergraduate students who belong to one of the 28 fraternities or sororities on campus also perform thousands of hours of community service and raise thousands of dollars for charities each year.

The RIT-Genesee Country Village & Museum (GCV&M) Partnership, which is supported by the Philip K. and Anne Wehrheim Endowment, is just one example of how these collaborations provide a two- way bridge of benefits.