Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a private university founded in 1829, consists of nine academic colleges, including the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Rochester Institute of Technology, a career-oriented technology-focused school, enrolls more than 18,000 students in more than 200 academic programs leading to undergraduate and graduate (including doctoral) degree programs.
RIT has students form all 50 states and from more than 100 countries. RIT belongs to the Rochester Area College Consortium, a conglomeration of colleges and universities.
Besides technology and science programs, RIT provides programs in business, arts and design, and liberal arts. Every RIT academic program provides students some type of experimental education opportunity, such as cooperative education, internships, study abroad, or undergraduate research. The RIT Cooperative Education program, one of the world’s largest, provides students career-related work experience in numerous degree programs.
Rochester Institute of Technology, through RIT Online, offers online associate and bachelor degree programs in applied arts and sciences; more than a dozen master’s degree programs, such as applied statistics, imaging science, and manufacturing leadership; and a host of certificate programs.
RIT Online offers several start dates each year and allows students flexibility to complete coursework on their schedule. RIT Online students have access to enrollment advising and academic support. The instructors who teach the on-campus classes also teach the online classes.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Rochester Institute of Technology #8 in Regional Universities (North) in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges. Bloomberg Business listed Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of Business #91 in its list of 2014 Undergraduate Business School Programs. Princeton Review included RIT among the 2105 Best 379 Colleges.
The respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business provides accreditation to Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of Business. Rochester Institute of Technology also holds accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
