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Coming to RIT/NTID is about getting access to opportunities and people who will support you and challenge you to be your best. It's about getting experiences that will shape you and take you where you want to go.

We are creating the most powerful, successful network of deaf and hard-of-hearing professionals in the world.

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Statistics

1st

College of Its Kind

NTID is the first and largest technological college in the world for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

1.1k

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

RIT/NTID serves more than 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students from around the United States and the world who live, study, and work alongside hearing students on the mainstream RIT campus.

95%

Employed

RIT/NTID graduates are successful in a broad range of career fields.

90%

Receive Financial Assistance

The percentage of full-time deaf and hard-of-hearing undergraduate students who receive financial assistance.

Faces of RIT

Meet the President and Dean

Caroline Solomon

We are not here simply to prepare students for the workforce—we are here to prepare them for a world that needs their voices, their leadership, their moral compasses, their ability to be agile and adapt and innovate.

Caroline Solomon
NTID President/Vice President RIT

Latest News

  • March 5, 2026

    A student interpreter in a black shirt voices for a deaf student in a baseball cap and green hoodie as they ask questions of a butterfly expert in an orange shirt at The Strong Museum's Butterfly Garden. There are families with small children and lush greenery in the background.

    RIT/NTID and The Strong Museum Partner for Deaf Day of Play March 21

    RIT/NTID and The Strong National Museum of Play have again partnered to celebrate the richness of Rochester’s Deaf community with a Deaf Day of Play at the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 21. Students from NTID’s Department of American Sign Language and Interpreter Education Bachelor of Science in Interpreting program will provide pro bono ASL interpretation throughout the museum. 

  • February 27, 2026

    Showing a view of looking over someone's shoulder, the photo features a laptop with a video of someone using ASL. In the foreground, a person with a hearing aid watches the screen. Only the side of their face and hair are visible as the view is looking over their shoulder.

    Government Technology highlights Grammar Laboratory, a tool developed by Erin Finton, lecturer for RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The tool makes English grammar practice more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.