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To enhance the skills of interpreters in the field, NTID is now offering five certificate programs in American Sign Language specialties.

For decades, deaf and hard-of-hearing students attending RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf have been earning associate, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees. This year, the first three NTID-supported students are on track to earn their doctoral degrees from RIT.

Jason Listman, associate professor in NTID’s Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, is one of this year’s winners of the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty.

Animation Career Review ranked RIT as the second-best game design university in New York state and fifth-best in the nation. 

Saunders College of Business will begin offering two new master’s degree programs, exclusively online, beginning in the fall of 2023.

RIT students will have more opportunities to flex their creative muscles outside of the classroom through a new program called MAKE, housed within RIT’s College of Art and Design. The new program creates opportunities for students outside of the college to engage with the resources and expertise available within the School for American Crafts and School of Art.

New graduate degree aims to prepare well-rounded AI professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Animation Career Review has named Rochester Institute of Technology one of the top augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) colleges in the country. RIT ranked No. 8 on the 2022 list of Top 50 AR/VR Colleges in the U.S.

Innovation, value, co-op education, and excellence in undergraduate teaching are among the categories in which RIT is highly ranked and listed as one of the best national universities by U.S. News & World Report.

RIT remains one of the nation’s best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2023 edition of its book "The Best 388 Colleges."

Most students attending college do so in preparation of their futures. In the case of two new degrees in RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and one new degree in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, students also will be competitive employees and leaders and be readily able to navigate their evolving fields.

Rochester Institute of Technology will begin offering two new Ph.D. programs beginning in the fall of 2023—each with historical academic significance for the university.