page_title: Rochester Institute of Technology
section_title: Colleges
hierarchical_section_title: Rochester Institute of Technology / Organization and administration / Colleges
caption_attribution_description: English: The Rochester Institute of Technology observatory
context_page_description: Rochester Institute of Technology is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees and online masters as well.
  The university was founded in 1829 and is the tenth largest private university in the country in terms of full-time students. It is internationally known for its science, computer, engineering, and art programs, as well as for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a leading deaf-education institution that provides educational opportunities to more than 1000 deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT is known for its Co-op program that gives students professional and industrial experience. It has the fourth oldest and one of the largest Co-op programs in the world.
  RIT student population is approximately 19,000 students, about 16,000 undergraduate and 3000 graduate. Demographically, students attend from all 50 states in the United States and from more than 100 countries around the world.
context_section_description: RIT has nine colleges:
  RIT College of Engineering Technology
  Saunders College of Business
  B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
  Kate Gleason College of Engineering
  RIT College of Health Sciences and Technology
  College of Art and Design
  RIT College of Liberal Arts
  RIT College of Science
  National Technical Institute for the Deaf
  There are also three smaller academic units that grant degrees but do not have full college faculties:
  RIT Center for Multidisciplinary Studies
  Golisano Institute for Sustainability
  University Studies
  In addition to these colleges, RIT operates three branch campuses in Europe, one in the Middle East and one in East Asia:
  RIT Croatia (formerly the American College of Management and Technology) in Dubrovnik and Zagreb, Croatia
  RIT Kosovo (formerly the American University in Kosovo) in Pristina, Kosovo
  RIT Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  RIT China-Weihai Campus
  RIT also has international partnerships with the following schools:
  Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey
  Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India
  Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Dominican Republic
  Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) in Dominican Republic
  Universidad Tecnologica Centro-Americana (UNITEC) in Honduras
  Universidad del Norte (UNINORTE) in Colombia
  Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) in Peru
caption: RIT Observatory
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