The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in Henrietta,New York,a suburb of Rochester. It was founded in 1829. It is one of only two institutes of technology in New York state,the other being the New York Institute of Technology.
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. As one of nine colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester,New York,NTID provides academic programs,access,ASL in-class interpreters and support services—including on-site audiological,speech-language,and cochlear implant support. As of fall quarter 2012,NTID encompasses just under 10% of RIT's enrollment,1259 students. Roughly 775 deaf and hard of hearing students are cross-registered into another RIT college's program with support from NTID.
Albert Joseph Simone is a former president of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Hawaiʻi System.
The B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences is one of the largest colleges at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT),and is home to the institute's computing education and research facilities. Golisano College is home to RIT's computer science,cybersecurity,information sciences and technologies,and software engineering departments,as well as the Ph.D. program in computing and information sciences,and the School of Interactive Games &Media,home to the college's game design and development and interactive development programs. Golisano College is housed in a 125,000 square foot facility,opened in 2003 on RIT's campus in Rochester,New York.
Nariman Farvardin is an Iranian-American engineer and educator,currently serving as president of Stevens Institute of Technology,Hoboken,New Jersey. Formerly senior vice president for academic affairs,provost and acting president at the University of Maryland,College Park,he assumed office at Stevens on July 1,2011.
Andrew Sears is an American computer scientist. He was a professor and dean of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and became Provost at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on August 1,2024.
Thomas Robert Plough is an American sociologist most notable for having served as president of North Dakota State University and Assumption College.
The Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) is the engineering college at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The college is home to all of RIT's engineering programs except for software engineering,which is part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. Entering the 2023-24 academic year,the student body consisted of 2,947 students,with 400 graduate students. About 23% of the students were female.
T. Alan Hurwitz is an American educator who served as the tenth President of Gallaudet University from 2010 to 2015. He is the first person born deaf,and first Jew,to hold this position. Previously,he served as President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and Vice President and Dean of Rochester Institute of Technology. He served in a variety of other roles for most of NTID's 40-year history.
James Francis Barker was the second president of the Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics Institute,succeeding Carleton B. Gibson,from 1916–1919.
Merle Richard Rose was an American academic. He was the tenth president of Alfred University from 1974 until 1978,when he left to become the seventh president of the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1979 until 1992.
John Arthur Randall was the fourth President of the Rochester Institute of Technology,succeeding Royal B. Farnum,from 1922 to 1936.
Mark Ellingson was the 5th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology,succeeding John A. Randall,from 1936 to 1969. He rose from a teacher at the institute to the presidency,which he held for longer than anyone before or since,and in many ways he brought the institute into its modern form. During Ellingson's tenure in office from 1936 to 1969,enrollment in day and evening classes rose from 2,250 to 16,000. He also oversaw a major expansion of the RIT endowment;a 1937 merger with the Empire School of Printing;the 1944 renaming to "Rochester Institute of Technology";the planning,construction,and 1968 transfer to the current campus in Henrietta. He also spearheaded the drive to have RIT selected as the location for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf,which admitted its first students in 1968.
Paul Ausborn Miller was an American academic administrator who served as the 6th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1969–1979. He oversaw the completion of the move of the campus to Henrietta and the steady growth of RIT between 1969 and 1981.
The Rochester Institute of Technology of Dubai is a satellite campus of Rochester Institute of Technology,New York,USA,in Dubai,United Arab Emirates. The college is located in the Dubai Silicon Oasis and started offering part-time graduate courses in Fall 2008. In 2009,the university began its full-time graduate program. RIT Dubai's first graduating class was in 2010,with the graduation ceremony taking place in Rochester,NY. In 2010,a full-time undergraduate program was started as part of the university's planned expansion. In the fall of 2011,RIT Dubai moved its campus to a new premises to accommodate the growing student body. By 2019,RIT plans to expand the campus to 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) to provide facilities for 4,000 students.
Saunders College of Business is one of eleven colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB). As of fall semester 2018,Saunders College of Business encompasses nearly 11% of RIT's enrollment,home to more than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in programs across RIT Global Campuses in Rochester,New York,Croatia,Dubai,Kosovo,and China.
Ian Gatley was the former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark,New Jersey.
He is also a Distinguished Professor of Physics in the department of Physics at the College of Science and Liberal Arts in NJIT.
He is a prolific scholar well known in Astronomy and Imaging Science.
David Clair Munson Jr. is an American electrical engineer who has been serving as the 10th and current president of the Rochester Institute of Technology since 2017. He was the 14th dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 2006 to 2016.
William H. Sanders is currently Carnegie Mellon University's dean of engineering. On July 1,2025,Bill Sanders is set to become Rochester Institute of Technology's new president,and will be the successor to current RIT president David Munson.
