Rochester Institute of Technology

Location

1 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623

Phone

585 475 2411

Website

http://www.rit.edu/

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Overview

2014 data: 15,006 undergraduates and 3,057 graduate students, total 18,063 students

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a world renowned technological university comprised of nine colleges and three degree-granting institutes:

College of Applied Science & Technology (CAST)
E. Phillip Saunders College of Business (COB)
B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (GCCIS)
Kate Gleason College of Engineering (COE)
College of Health Sciences and Technology
College of Imaging Arts & Sciences (CIAS)
College of Liberal Arts (COLA)
National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
College of Science (COS)
Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS)
Center for Multidisciplinary Studies
University Studies

RIT is particularly well respected for its film, printing, photography, engineering, and computing departments, as well as for being one of the largest deaf and hearing integrated higher education institutes. RIT also operates four satellite campuses overseas: in Kosovo as the American University in Kosovo (AUK), in Prague as the US Business School Praha in Prague (USBSP), in Dubrovnik, Croatia as the American College of Management and Technology (ACMT) and in Dubai, United Arab Emirates as Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai (RIT Dubai).

Dominated by glass and red brick buildings, including its dormitories, the RIT campus has earned the pseudo-affectionate name of "The Brick City." The original campus buildings are in the architectural style of brutalism.

In an effort to modernize the campus's image, RIT contracted famed sculptor Albert Paley to create a statue for the campus. It was completed in 2003 and is called The Sentinel (picture below). RIT claims that it is the largest sculpture on any college campus in the country.

Organizations

Athletics

RIT's athletics teams compete in the NCAA Division III Liberty League with the exceptions of men's and women's
ice hockey, which compete at the Division I level. Both teams play at the 4,300 seat Gene_Polisseni_Center located adjacent to Gleason Circle on campus.

Dining Options

Salsarita's Fresh Cantina

History

Originally the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics' Association and the Mechanics Institute, these two educational institutions later merged to form what is now known as the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1959 RIT— at that point located in downtown Rochester, was made aware by the New York State Department of Public works that the Inner Loop highway project would cut through institute's campus. In 1961 RIT made the decision to move the college out of the city to the nearby suburb of Henrietta.¹ The Henrietta campus opened to students in 1968.

The current school campus is now located on 1,300 acres, which includes dense woodland and freshwater swamp wetlands. RIT's northern border is Jefferson Road, which is home to many strip malls, the Marketplace Mall, and several restaurants within a 5 minute drive. Also surrounding RIT are business incubators, such as the Lennox Tech Enterprise Center. RIT is approximately 6 miles south of Rochester, a 15 minute drive from downtown.

Pictures

Quarter Mile east side looking west

Quarter Mile west side looking west

Sentinel

Sentinel in October

Infinity

Noteworthy Trivia

The MPAA has listed as RIT as #8 of the top 25 schools for movie piracy in the nation. (Click here for ars technica article)
One of its notable student groups is the Rochester Wargamers Association and Guild aka RWAG-a long standing RPG gamer's group.
Its newest novelty is Java Wally's- RIT's very own coffee shop.
"As of 02/09/2006, RIT contained 14,673,565 bricks. Rumors have circulated stating that RIT contained more bricks than the Great Wall of China, though the claim has never been substantiated. The Great Wall of China, unlike RIT, was built by soldiers, prisoners, and peasants with wood, earth, stones, and bricks, so the rumor is difficult to prove." ²
RIT has an exclusive student-run textbook trading website BookMaid.com, which was originally RITBook.com, but was forced to change it's name when RIT threatened legal action for trademark infringement.
In 2016 mic.com included RIT on a list of one of the 13 schools the next Steve Jobs will come from

* The College of Liberal Arts had a baccalaureate social work program from the early ‘70s until 2007. It was the only permanently mainstreamed social work education program for hearing and deaf students in the world. Most classes during this time were conducted with 50% of each course being deaf, in contrast to the usual small percentage for all other cross-registered degree programs on campus.