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Rochester Institute of Technology or more commonly known as RIT has been teaching
students since 1829. It is located in Henrietta just outside of Rochester. RIT
has 915 faculty members and 1831 staff members, 13,000 Undergrads and 2400 Grad
students. When the school first came into being it was founded as the Rochester
Athenaeum and they later came together with the Mechanics Institute in 1891,
but the name was too long and in 1944 the official name was Rochester Institute
of Technology. Today the Institute offers Associate Degrees, Bachelor's
Degrees, Master's and Doctoral Degrees. They even house the Institute
included a federally funded National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
The Institute consists of 8 different colleges. The Colleges include one for
Applied Science, Business, Computing and Information Science, Engineering, Imaging
Arts and Science, Liberal Arts, Science and as we mentioned before the Institute
for the Deaf. There are also three RIT schools sponsored schools in Prague,
Croatia and Kosovo.
The school itself has 237 buildings which sits on about 5.1 million square
feet. Most of the buildings are made from pure bricks which is how the school
earned it's name Brick City. Today , RIT is a teaching school but they
do have a research department that is growing and growing every year. The school
has a very high research grant amount for 2006 and 2007 they received 39 million
dollars. RIT does offer students 4 PH.D Programs, Imaging Science, Microsystems
Engineering, Computing and Information Science and Color Science.
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