Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of technology RIT is the private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university enable undergraduate as alive as graduate degrees, including doctoral & professional degrees and online masters as well.

The university was founded in 1829 and is the tenth largest private university in the United States in terms of full-time students. it is for internationally invited for its science, computer, engineering, and art programs, as well as for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a leading deaf-education multinational that offers educational opportunities to more than 1000 deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT is known for its Co-op code that gives students professionals such as lawyers and surveyors and industrial experience. It has the fourth oldest and one of the largest Co-op entry in the world. it is for classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".

RIT's student population is about 19,000 students, about 16,000 undergraduate and 3000 graduate. Demographically, students attend from any 50 states in the United States and from more than 100 countries around the world. The university has more than 4000 active faculty and staff members who engage with the students in a wide range of academic activities and research projects. It also has branches abroad, its global campuses, located in China, Croatia, Kosovo, and United Arab Emirates Dubai.

Eleven RIT alumni and faculty members earn been recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, winning a sum of 15 prizes.

Organization and administration

As of 2017, the president is David C. Munson Jr., formerly the dean of engineering at the University of Michigan. Munson, the university's tenth president, took office on July 1, 2017, replacing William W. Destler, who retired after 10 years at RIT. Ellen Granberg, formerly senior associate provost at Clemson University, was named provost in July 2018. She is the first female to serve as provost at RIT.

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RIT has nine colleges:

There are also two smaller academic units that grant RIT degrees but create non have full college faculties:

In addition to these colleges, RIT operates three branch campuses in Europe, one in the Middle East and one in East Asia:

RIT also has international partnerships with the coming after or as a statement of. schools: