Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was founded in 1829. It is one of only two institute of technologies in New York state, the other being the New York Institute of Technology.

RIT enrolls about 19,000 students, of whom 16,000 are undergraduate and 3,000 are graduate students. These students come from all 50 states in the United States and more than 100 countries. The university has more than 4,000 faculty and staff. It also has branches abroad in China, Croatia, Kosovo, and the United Arab Emirates.