FRESHMAN PROSPECTUS

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1 FRESHMAN PROSPECTUS

2 CONTENTS Advantage You... 2 Academics... 4 Majors & Minors Diverse, Active, Committed Facuty... 8 Finest Faciities Career Success Cooperative and Experientia Learning Academic Enrichment Acceerated Dua-Degree Programs Pre-professiona Studies Honors Program Gobay Recognized Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festiva Academic Synergy: RIT s Coeges Coege of Appied Science and Technoogy Saunders Coege of Business B. Thomas Goisano Coege of Computing and Information Sciences Kate Geason Coege of Engineering Coege of Heath Sciences and Technoogy Coege of Imaging Arts and Sciences Coege of Libera Arts Nationa Technica Institute for the Deaf Coege of Science Student Life Appying for Admission Financia Aid and Schoarships Rochester, New York Visit RIT! RIT in Brief RIT has emerged as one of the word's eading centers for research on unmanned aircraft systems (drones).

3 Introduction WHATEVER YOUR PASSION, YOU CAN MASTER IT AT RIT. RIT is a pace where briiant minds assembe and coaborate, where they poo together their individua taents across discipines in service of big ideas and creative soutions. It is a vibrant community teeming with students coaborating with experts and speciaists: a hub of innovation and creativity. It is an intersection of discipines, a aunching pad for a briiant career, and a highy unique state of mind. It is a perfect environment in which to pursue your passion. Here, the future is envisioned each day. And remade each day after. Imagine the possibiities. 1

4 Advantage You HANDS ON. ALWAYS ON. Your briiant idea needs a pace to design, deveop, and produce it. The good news? At your disposa connections with feow students, professors, researchers, and studios and abs that are humming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 2

5 James Reiy, director of RIT s Image Permanence Institute, is we known for his research on the effects of temperature and humidity on ibrary archives and museum coections. Here, Reiy works in the IPI aboratory to anayze deterioration of documents under acceerated ight exposure. Success by design Of our many strengths, there s one that reay separates us from the crowd. You get the finest career preparation at RIT, and you don t have to take our word for it. One ook at the empoyers and graduate schoos ined up for our graduates says it a. Our nine coeges offer more than 80 bacheor s degree programs in art and design, business, engineering, science and mathematics, the ibera arts, photography, environmenta studies, hospitaity and service management, computing and information sciences, heath sciences, and many others. Our programs stress the appication of knowedge. Our rigorous, hands-on approach, couped with the emphasis we pace on experientia earning, gives you a remarkabe advantage. Throughout your career at RIT, you be given every opportunity to appy what you ve earned to rea ife situations. Perspective and depth In addition to a career focus, the education you receive at RIT is designed to ast a ifetime as you gain perspective and depth through our Libera Arts and Sciences Genera Education curricuum. The courses in this framework intentionay move you through three educationa phases designed to give you a strong foundation in communication skis, an introduction to fundamentas of ibera arts and sciences discipines, and the opportunity for deeper study and integrative earning through an immersion in a custer of three reated courses or in a five-course minor. In addition to minors and immersions, you have the opportunity to expore even further through acceerated dua-degree programs (combined BS/master s degrees), under graduate research, and study abroad. We encourage you to expore a that RIT has to offer. 3

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7 Academics SEE YOUR VISION THROUGH. One of the word s eading technoogica institutions, RIT is a vibrant, connected community that is home to diverse, ambitious, and creative students from more than 100 countries. It offers an incredibe array of academic programs; a diverse, committed, and accessibe facuty; sophisticated faciities; and an unusua emphasis on experientia earning. Innovative speciaized programs Few universities provide RIT s variety of careeroriented studies. RIT s unmatched array of academic programs attracts designers, artists, photographers, and fimmakers on the one hand, and scientists, engineers, computing scientists, and entrepreneurs on the other. When you connect these students with RIT s outstanding facuty, a earning environment is created where innovation and creativity fourish. Experience counts Since 1912, the hamark of an RIT education has been experientia earning. RIT was among the first universities in the word to offer cooperative education. Last year, more than 4,100 co-op students aternated periods of study on campus with paid empoyment in more than 2,100 firms across the United States and overseas. Today, experientia earning aso incudes internships, study abroad, and undergraduate research. Jump-start your career or take time to expore RIT is one of the few universities where you can immerse yoursef in your major from day one. Or, if you need time to expore your options, undecared options are avaiabe at both the university and coege eves. If your interests span two or more coeges within RIT, the University Studies program offers students up to one year to focus their academic and career interests. (See p. 51 for more information.) If your interests fa within one coege, but you are not sure of your major, most coeges offer undecared or exporation options to hep you discover more about the majors within the coege. Engaging facuty Exceing in research and exceing in teaching, our facuty are passionate about their discipines and their roe in both the ab and the cassroom. They are innovative and resourcefu. They engage students in the process of discovery and the contribution of new knowedge to their fieds. Outstanding faciities Our strong reputation for state-of-the-art academic faciities is righty earned. RIT has invested more than $300 miion in the renovation and construction of new academic and student ife faciities over the past few years to accompish a remarkabe transformation. You find outstanding faciities and equipment in every area of campus, and our commitment to student success ensures that these faciities are accessibe when you need them. Goba, vibrant community RIT attracts students from every state and more than 2,500 internationa students from more than 100 countries. Embodying our commitment to diversity, more than 2,900 students of coor have eected to study at RIT. Adding a socia and educationa dynamic not found at any other university are more than 1,200 deaf and hard-of-hearing students supported by RIT s Nationa Technica Institute for the Deaf. The variety of backgrounds and perspectives represented in the RIT community enriches the iving and earning experience for a. As you interact on team-based projects, in residence has, and in day-to-day activities, we beieve you wi be enriched and better prepared for the opportunities and chaenges of goba interdependence. UNIVERSITY IN THE NATION TO OFFER IMAGING SCIENCE, PH.D. SUSTAINABILITY, PH.D. focused on sustainabe production systems INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, BS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, BS MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, BS 5

8 MAJORS (Bacheor s degree programs ony. For acceerated dua-degree programs, see p. 14.) Coege Key Coege of Appied Science and Technoogy Saunders Coege of Business B. Thomas Goisano Coege of Computing and Information Sciences Kate Geason Coege of Engineering Coege of Heath Sciences and Technoogy Coege of Imaging Arts and Sciences Coege of Libera Arts Nationa Technica Institute for the Deaf Coege of Science NTID programs are isted on page 38. Quaified deaf and hard-of-hearing students may enro in RIT bacheor s degree programs with fu support of NTID s access services. Art, Design, & Crafts 3D Digita Design Ceramics Fine Arts Studio Furniture Design Gass Graphic Design Iustration Industria Design Interior Design Medica Iustration Metas and Jewery Design New Media Design Business & Management Accounting Economics Finance Internationa Business Internationa Hospitaity & Service Management Management Management Information Systems Marketing New Media Marketing Nutrition Management Communications (See aso Photography, Fim, & Print Media.) Advertising and Pubic Reations American Sign Language Engish Interpretation Communication Journaism Computing & Information Sciences Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing and Information Technoogies (formery Networking and Systems Administration) Computing Security Game Design and Deveopment Human-Centered Computing Management Information Systems New Media Interactive Deveopment Software Engineering Web and Mobie Computing (formery Information Technoogy) Engineering & Engineering Technoogy Biomedica Engineering Chemica Engineering Civi Engineering Technoogy Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Technoogy Computer Engineering Technoogy Audio Option Teecommunications Option Eectrica Engineering Eectrica Engineering Computer Engineering Option Cean and Renewabe Energy Option Robotics Option Wireess Communications Option Eectrica Engineering Technoogy Eectrica Engineering Technoogy Audio Option Teecommunications Option Eectrica/Mechanica Engineering Technoogy Industria Engineering Industria Engineering Ergonomics Option Lean Six Sigma Option Manufacturing Option Suppy Chain Management Option Manufacturing Engineering Technoogy Mechanica Engineering Mechanica Engineering Aerospace Option Automotive Option Bioengineering Option Energy and Environment Option Mechanica Engineering Technoogy Microeectronic Engineering Packaging Science Software Engineering Environmenta Studies Environmenta Science Environmenta Sustainabiity, Heath and Safety Individuaized Study Appied Arts and Science* Mathematics, Science, Heath Sciences Appied Mathematics Appied Statistics and Actuaria Science Biochemistry Bioinformatics Bioogy Biomedica Sciences Biotechnoogy and Moecuar Bioscience Chemistry Computationa Mathematics Diagnostic Medica Sonography (Utrasound) Exercise Science Imaging Science Medica Iustration Nutrition Management Photographic and Imaging Technoogies Biomedica Photographic Communications Option Physician Assistant (BS/MS) Physics Photography, Fim, & Print Media Fim and Animation Media Arts and Technoogy Motion Picture Science Photographic and Imaging Arts Advertising Photography Option Fine Art Photography Option Photojournaism Option Visua Media Option Photographic and Imaging Technoogies Biomedica Photographic Communications Option Imaging and Photographic Technoogy Option Humanities & Socia Sciences Crimina Justice Digita Humanities and Socia Sciences Internationa and Goba Studies Museum Studies Phiosophy Poitica Science Psychoogy Pubic Poicy Socioogy and Anthropoogy Undecared Options University Studies** Undecared Art and Design Business Exporation Computing Exporation Undecared Crafts Engineering Exporation Undecared Engineering Technoogy Libera Arts Exporation Undecared Photography Science Exporation Pre-Professiona Studies Students interested in pre-aw, pre-medica, and other pre-heath professions may enro in any major at RIT and take advantage of our exceent pre-professiona advising programs that provide the guidance you need to compete the admission requirements for graduate programs in aw, medicine, and other heath professions. * Offered by the Schoo of Individuaized Study in the Division of Academic Affairs. See p. 51 for more information. ** Offered by the Division of Academic Affairs for students exporing programs in two or more coeges Pending New York state approva Information is correct at time of printing. 6

9 MINORS AND IMMERSIONS Minors Students pursuing a bacheor s degree have the option of competing a minor a set of five or more reated courses. A minor can compement your major, hep you deveop another area of professiona expertise, or enabe you to pursue an area of persona interest. Competion of one of RIT s more than 90 minors is formay designated on your baccaaureate transcript, which serves to highight your accompishment to empoyers and graduate schoos. For the most recent ist of minors, pease visit rit.edu/minors. Immersions As a part of their bacheor s degree requirements, students must compete an immersion a concentration of three courses in a particuar area. These upper-eve courses are used to meet RIT s genera education requirements and provide you with course work in a speciaized area that can enhance and compement your major or aow you to expore a persona interest. For the most recent ist of immersions, pease visit rit.edu/programs/immersions. Accounting Advertising and Pubic Reations s Africa and the Diaspora s American Arts s American Poitics s American Sign Language and Deaf Cutura Studies s Appied Statistics s Archaeoogica Science Archaeoogy s Art History s Astronomy s Bioinformatics Anaysis Bioogy: Ceuar and Moecuar Bioogy: Ecoogy and Evoution Business Administration Chemica Engineering Systems Anaysis Chemistry s Communication s Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Security Construction Management Creative Writing s Crimina Justice s Cutura Anthropoogy s Database Design and Deveopment Digita Business Digita Literatures and Comparative Media s Diversity in the U.S. s Economics s Eectrica Engineering Engineering Management Engish s Entrepreneurship Environmenta Modeing Environmenta Science Environmenta Studies s Ethics s Exercise Science Fim Studies s Finance Fexibe Packaging Free and Open Source Software and Free Cuture Game Design Game Design and Deveopment Geographic Information Systems Goba Justice and Peace Studies s Goba Literatures and Cutures Gobaization Theory s Heath and Cuture s Heath Communication Heath IT History s Hospitaity Management Human Language Technoogy and Computationa Linguistics s Imaging Science Imaging Systems Industria Engineering Innovation Internationa Business Internationa Reations s Journaism s Language Science s Latino/Latina/Latin American Studies s Lega Studies Libera and Medica Arts s Literature s Management Management Information Systems Marketing Mathematics s Mechanica Engineering Media Arts and Technoogy Microeectronic Engineering Miitary Studies and Leadership Mobie Design and Deveopment Mobie Deveopment Modern Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Itaian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) Modern Languages and Cutures (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Itaian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) s Museum Studies s Music s Music and Technoogy Music Performance Native American Science and Technoogy s Networking and Systems Administration Optica Science Packaging Science Phiosophy s Physics s Poitica Science Psychoogy s Pubic Poicy s Reigious Studies s Science and Technoogy Studies s Science of Fim, Photography, and Imaging s Science, Technoogy, and Society Socia Inequaities s Socioogy and Anthropoogy Software Engineering Structura Design Suppy Chain Management Sustainabe Product Deveopment Text and Code s Theater Arts s Urban Studies s Visua Cuture s Water Resources Web Design and Deveopment Web Deveopment Women s and Gender Studies s Writing and Rhetoric s Minor s Immersion 7

10 Risa Robinson, Katheen Lamkin-Kennard, and Steven Day, professors in the Kate Geason Coege of Engineering, are using computationa modeing and experimenta methods to simuate and predict cardiovascuar and respiratory systems within the body. This information wi aid in the deveopment of nove treatments and technoogies such as the magneticay evitated heart pump currenty being deveoped by Day and his team of researchers. 8

11 Diverse, Active, Committed Facuty UP YOUR GAME WITH OUR DOWN- TO-EARTH EXPERTS. Enthusiasm and commitment to teaching are undeniabe characteristics of RIT s facuty. From graphic artists and engineers to scientists and management speciaists, they wi spark your curiosity, chaenge you to grow, and inspire you to achieve your dreams. Teaching comes first This is a pace where facuty enjoy interacting with students not ony in cass or during office hours but in the dining has, in the coffee shop at the ibrary, or at the Student Life Center. It s a friendy but chaenging environment, and our facuty s approach to teaching makes it so. Our facuty have extensive experience in the cassroom and their professiona fieds. Their rea-ife experiences and their invovement in appied research and consuting means that their teaching is we informed and up to date. They tak with you about career choices and graduate schoo. Our professors think about your future amost as much as you do, and they are committed to your success. OUR STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 13:1 AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 23 STUDENTS Here are a few exampes of our outstanding facuty: Wiie Osterman, professor of photography in the Schoo of Photographic Arts and Sciences, used his Fubright award to assist the University of Zagreb in deveoping curricua for the first degree in photography created at a Croatian university. The experience was an exceent suppement to my teaching at RIT, says Osterman. Sandra Rothenberg, an associate professor of management and a Zutes Facuty Feow, is conducting a study of environmenta activists who changed careers to work in industry. Much of her interest focuses on corporate environmenta strategy and management as we as environmenta activism within companies. In addition to researching environmenta management, she heads the Joan Rothenberg Famiy Foundation, which supports organizations that promote environmenta protection. Manuea Campanei, professor in the Schoo of Mathematica Sciences, was part of a team that put none other than Abert Einstein to the test. Campanei and her team simuated the merger of two back hoes and soved the interreated equations that were the basis of Einstein s theory of genera reativity for strong fied gravity. A recipient of the RIT Trustee s Schoarship Award ( ), Campanei is a Principa Investigator in mutipe NSF- and NASA-funded research projects, a member of the Ligo Scientific Coaboration, and has served in numerous panes at the NSF and NASA. Keith Jenkins, Eisenhart Award winner and associate professor of communication in the Coege of Libera Arts, says, I want students to beieve that they can foow their passions and be successfu, whie aso instiing the idea that thoughtfu and committed peope can change the word. Jenkins has focused on engaging students in the cassroom, through experientia earning opportunities and through his research work, which incudes a study of the impact of race on rhetoric and an anaysis of the pubic speeches of President Barack Obama. To earn more about our facuty, visit 9

12 Finest Faciities WE VE BUILT OUR WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOUR AMBITIONS. RIT s students have unmatched opportunities for hands-on earning, utiizing some of the most sophisticated cassroom, aboratory, and studio equipment avaiabe anywhere. State-of-the-art campus At RIT, we understand how technoogy enhances creativity and innovation. Our campus has the atest equipment, software, studios, aboratories, and conveniences the toos you need to expore and exce. We hep you utiize the atest technoogy and understand its impact on the word. RIT is wired There s no question that we have a sophisticated, high-tech campus. The Princeton Review consistenty ranks RIT among the most connected campuses in the country. Whether you re in the cassrooms, abs, residence has, or pubic areas, we provide free, direct, high-speed computing access that is hard to beat. A wecoming, sustainabe environment RIT is much more than its high-quaity academic faciities; it offers many wecoming spaces on campus. You find vibrant ocations for socia and inteectua activity just about everywhere you ook. The physica beauty of the campus comes from an interpay of natura and park-ike settings with modern buidings, architectura features, and artwork prominenty on dispay. Comfortabe spaces offer paces to reax or work on projects and team assignments. In addition, our community of more than 20,000 students, facuty, and staff has made a commitment to advance sustainabiity in a areas in academic programs and research initiatives, in our campus operations and consumption practices, and in efforts to promote socia sustainabiity within the RIT famiy. By making the campus more environmentay friendy and by engaging in and earning more RIT s new 2-megawatt soar array farm on the south end of campus features 6,138 photovotaic panes over 6.5 acres. It is expected to reduce RIT s carbon footprint by 400 metric tons annuay. about sustainabe practices, we can take steps now to ensure that the campus, the Rochester area, and the greater word in which we ive wi be ceaner, heathier, and more ivabe tomorrow than they are today. In short, you find that our commitment to student success and sustainabiity is captured throughout the campus s outstanding academic and community faciities. 10

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14 In addition to many other services, the Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education sponsors a spring and fa career fair for co-op, internship, and permanent pacement. A sampe of our more than 2,100 empoyer partners that hire for co-ops, internships, and permanent pacement incudes: 1st Payabe Productions, LLC Amazon Anheuser-Busch Appe Computer BAE Bendix Boeing Bosch Bose Carestream Heath CENG CIA Cisco Systems Deoitte & Touche Dephi Ernst & Young Fideity Investments Fisher Price Genera Dynamics Genera Eectric GM Components Hoding Googe Harris Corporation Hasbro The Hershey Company Honda Iberdroa IBM Inte Intuit ITT Corporation Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase L-3 Communications Lockheed Martin Microsoft MIT Lincon Laboratory MOOG NASA Northrop Grumman NSA Ortho-Cinica Diagnostics Paychex PCC Phiips North America Quacomm SpaceX Thomson/Reuters Toyota Uniever United Technoogies University of Rochester Wat Disney Word Wegmans Food Markets Wech Ayn Xerox Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education 12 Ranked by The Princeton Review in the Top 10 for career services, the office provides centraized one-stop career services for RIT students and aumni. More than 10,000 positions are posted through the office and neary 6,000 on-campus interviews are conducted annuay. More than 2,100 empoyers partner with the office to access the more than 3,000 graduates and 4,100 co-op students that are produced each year. The office utiizes cutting-edge technoogy to make its services and critica career-reated content avaiabe to students and aumni at their convenience.

15 Career Success GOLD-PLATED CAREERS. FORGED FROM ORANGE AND BROWN. Students earn best by doing. As a word eader in experientia education, RIT academic programs feature distinct and diverse opportunities to appy cassroom education to rea-word probems and projects. Experience that makes a difference At RIT, rigorous, cutting-edge academic programs, outstanding facuty, and first-rate cassroom and aboratory faciities provide you with a great educationa experience. But today s word demands more. You need to be prepared for the rea chaenges and opportunities you wi experience once you ve graduated. Your 1,200 education must be reevant and tested in rea-word settings and PARTICIPANTS on rea-word probems before you graduate. IN MUD TUG 2010 Experientia education LET S GET aows FILTHY you AT to THE do ANNUAL that and more. CAMPUSWIDE Taken a together, CHARITY this TUG means OF WAR positive outcomes from your RIT experience. For each of the ast three years, approximatey 95 percent of RIT graduates enter either the workforce or graduate study within 6 months of graduation For more information about RIT s outcomes rates and career trends, visit joboutook.rit.edu. Internships Many academic programs offer students the opportunity to gain career-reated work experience through internships. Other academic programs offer internship opportunities 1,200 in addition to co-op. Whie co-op assignments are fu-time paid positions, PARTICIPANTS internships may not pay a saary or require a fu-time IN work MUD schedue. TUG Aso, in 2010 some 1,200 instances, LET S internship GET FILTHY credits AT THE are ANNUAL required CAMPUSWIDE CHARITY TUG OF WAR in the academic major. See the word There s no better way to gain an understanding of another cuture than to experience it firsthand. To prepare you for success in our goba society, RIT offers a range of exciting study abroad opportunities that expands your horizons in every sense. You can immerse yoursef in another cuture through our Study Abroad programs offered in cooperation with RIT HOUSES Croatia, OFFICES Queens AND THE BENETTON GALLERY 19,000 University 19,000 (Engand), University SQ FTSQ of Osnabrück FT (Germany), or Kanazawa Institute of VIGNELLI VIGNELLI CENTER CENTER Technoogy HOUSES (Japan). OFFICES HOUSES In AND OFFICES programs AND affiiated with THE other BENETTON institutions, THE BENETTON GALLERY RIT students GALLERY aso have the opportunity to study in Itay, Spain, France, Ireand, Austraia, China, Kenya, New Zeaand, Germany, Greece, and other internationa ocations. For more information, pease visit 32,000 32,000 32,000 Cooperative education Boston University Penn State YEARS YEARS OF CO-OP YEARS OF CO-OP YEARS OF CO-OP YEARS OF CO-OP OF CO-OP Since 1912, cooperative education (co-op) Carnegie Meon FOURTH OLDEST FOURTH AND OLDEST ONE FOURTH OF AND THE OLDEST ONE FOURTH OF AND THE OLDEST ONE FOURTH OF AND THE OLDEST ONE OF AND THE ONE OF THE has been the most extensive LARGEST and CO-OP LARGEST intensive PROGRAMS CO-OP LARGEST PROGRAMS IN THE Learning CO-OP LARGEST WORLD IN PROGRAMS THE CO-OP through WORLD PROGRAMS IN THE VISITORS WORLD research IN THE VISITORS WORLD IN VISITORS 2011 IN 2011 VISITORS University IN VISITORS 2011 IN 2011 IN University LARGEST CO-OP PROGRAMS IN THE WORLD 2011 Case Western Reserve of RIT s experientia education opportunities. Research is about soving probems, and University Co-op is fu-time, paid work experience directy reated to your course of study and career interests. Many academic RIT recognizes that many of the best careers require strong research skis. RIT provides a wide variety of undergraduate research Corne University Drexe University Duke University Georgia Institute of programs require co-op, whie others make opportunities, incuding the Simone Center Technoogy it avaiabe on an optiona basis. Last year, for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Harvard University students generated more than $36 miion the Bioogica Sciences Research Schoars Johns Hopkins in earnings through their empoyment Program, the Chemistry Research Schoars University 8-MILLION-FOOT Massachusetts Institute with industry, business, government, and Program, Economics Undergraduate Research, the not-for-profit 8-MILLION-FOOT sector. The 8-MILLION-FOOT bottom ine is 8-MILLION-FOOT FIBER-OPTIC Undergraduate Research BACKBONE of Technoogy in Mathematics, and New York University PROVIDING FREE, DIRECT, HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING that empoyers FIBER-OPTIC and FIBER-OPTIC graduate FIBER-OPTIC schoos BACKBONE prefer FIBER-OPTIC BACKBONE the BACKBONE Undergraduate BACKBONE $33,000,000 Research BACKBONE Symposium. $33,000,000 Northeastern University Virginia Tech ACCESS IN ALL ACADEMIC AREAS ACROSS CAMPUS ASSIGNMENTS students PROVIDING with reated PROVIDING FREE, experience. DIRECT, FREE, PROVIDING HIGH-SPEED DIRECT, FREE, PROVIDING HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING DIRECT, PROVIDING FREE, HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING DIRECT, FREE, COMPUTING HIGH-SPEED DIRECT, EARNED HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING BY EARNED STUDENTS COMPUTING BY STUDENTS EARNED WHILE ON BY CO-OP WHILE STUDENTS EARNED Ohio ON State CO-OP BY WHILE STUDENTS ON CO-OP WHILE ON CO-OP $33,000,000 University of Rochester University of Virginia $33,000,000 EARNED BY STUDENTS WHILE ON CO-OP ACCESS IN ACCESS ALL ACADEMIC IN ALL ACCESS ACADEMIC AREAS IN ACROSS ALL ACCESS AREAS ACADEMIC CAMPUS IN ACROSS ACCESS ALL AREAS ACADEMIC CAMPUS IN ACROSS ALL ACADEMIC AREAS CAMPUS ACROSS AREAS CAMPUS ACROSS ASSIGNMENTS CAMPUS ASSIGNMENTS ASSIGNMENTS ASSIGNMENTS ASSIGNMENTS 15,194,656 15,194,656 BRICKS ON CAMPUS N US RICKS CAMPUS ON BRICKS CAMPUS HENCE BRICKS ON CAMPUS ON CAMPUS RICK Y ENCE CITY BRICK HENCE CITY 4,100 BRICK BRICK HENCE CITY BRICK 4,100 CITY 4,100 6,100 CITY 4,100 6,100 4,100 6,100 4,100 6,100 2,100 6,100 2,100 6,100 2, , ,100 2, STATES STUDENTS PLACED CO-OP ASSIGNMENTS EMPLOYING COUNTRIES STUDENTS STUDENTS PLACED STUDENTS PLACED CO-OP STUDENTS PLACED ASSIGNMENTS CO-OP STUDENTS ASSIGNMENTS PLACED CO-OP IN OVER PLACED ASSIGNMENTS EMPLOYING CO-OP ASSIGNMENTS EMPLOYING CO-OP WITH ASSIGNMENTS STATES EMPLOYING MORE THAN STATES EMPLOYING COUNTRIES STATES EMPLOYING COUNTRIES ORGANIZATIONS STATES COUNTRIES STATES COUNTRIES AND IN COUNTRIES IN OVER IN OVER IN WITH OVERMORE WITH IN OVER THAN MORE IN WITH OVER THAN ORGANIZATIONS MORE WITH THAN ORGANIZATIONS MORE WITH THAN ORGANIZATIONS MORE AND IN THAN ORGANIZATIONS AND IN ORGANIZATIONS AND IN IN AND ALL IN AND IN IN ALL IN ALL IN ALL IN ALL IN ALL , , ,000 1,200 1,200 PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS IN MUD IN TUG MUD IN 2010 TUG MUD IN 2010 MUD TUG 2010 VIGNELLI TUG 2010 VIGNELLI CENTER VIGNELLI CENTER CENTER MORE THAN LET S GET FILTHY LET S AT GET THE FILTHY ANNUAL LET S AT GET THE LET S FILTHY ANNUAL GET AT THE FILTHY ANNUAL AT THE HOUSES ANNUAL OFFICES HOUSES AND OFFICES HOUSES AND OFFICES AND CAMPUSWIDE CAMPUSWIDE CHARITY TUG CAMPUSWIDE CHARITY OF WAR CAMPUSWIDE TUG CHARITY OF WARTUG CHARITY OF WAR THE TUG BENETTON OF WAR THE BENETTON GALLERY THE GALLERY BENETTON GALLERY ,000 19,000 19,000 SQ FTSQ FT SQ FT YEARS OF CO-OP FOURTH OLDEST AND ONE OF THE LARGEST CO-OP PROGRAMS IN THE WORLD 19,000 SQ FT VIGNELLI CENTER 32,000 Here is a recent sampe of the more than 300 graduate schoos attended by our recent aumni: VISITORS IN 2011 The Pennsyvania Rhode Isand Schoo of Design Rochester Institute of Technoogy Schoo of Visua Arts Syracuse University University at Buffao University of Caifornia, Berkeey University of Maryand University of Michigan EARNED BY STUDENTS WHILE ON CO-OP

16 ACCELERATED DUAL-DEGREE PROGRAMS If you re ooking for a way to distinguish yoursef from the crowd, you may want to combine undergraduate and graduate in acceerated options such as BS/MS, BS/ME, or 4+1 MBA degree programs. These dua-degree programs aow you to earn both a bacheor s and a master s degree in ess time than it woud normay take to compete each degree separatey. For exampe, you might combine a BS in industria engineering with a business MBA in a five-year period, or you might compete both a BS and an MS in pubic poicy in five years. Most acceerated programs require competion of freshman and sophomore course work at RIT before appying for admission. MBA 4+1* MBA Program BS/ME Industria Engineering/Engineering Management Industria Engineering/Industria and Systems Engineering Industria Engineering/Sustainabe Engineering Industria Engineering/Systems Engineering Mechanica Engineering BS/MS (One discipine) Appied Statistics Bioinformatics Computationa Mathematics/Appied and Computationa Mathematics Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Security Eectrica Engineering Environmenta Science Environmenta Sustainabiity, Heath and Safety/Environmenta Heath and Safety Management Game Design and Deveopment Industria Engineering/Industria and Systems Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Technoogy/Manufacturing and Mechanica Systems Integration Mechanica Engineering Mechanica Engineering Technoogy/ Mechanica Systems Integration Medica Informatics Physician Assistant Physics, Science, Technoogy and Pubic Poicy Software Engineering Teecommunications Engineering Technoogy BS/MS (Two discipines) Appied Mathematics/Appied and Computationa Mathematics Appied Statistics/Appied and Computationa Mathematics Biomedica Engineering/Science, Technoogy, and Pubic Poicy Chemica Engineering/Science, Technoogy, and Pubic Poicy Chemistry/Materias Science and Engineering Computationa Mathematics/Computer Science Computer Engineering Technoogy/Computer Science Computer Science/Computing Security Eectrica/Mechanica Engineering Technoogy/Manufacturing and Mechanica Systems Integration Eectrica/Mechanica Engineering Technoogy/Mechanica Systems Integration Industria Engineering/Appied Statistics Industria Engineering/Sustainabe Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Technoogy/Mechanica Systems Integration Mechanica Engineering/Science, Technoogy, and Pubic Poicy Medica Informatics/Computer Science Microeectronic Engineering/Materias Science Physics/Materias Science and Engineering Pubic Poicy/Science, Technoogy, and Pubic Poicy * Through carefu panning and academic advising, students can waive certain MBA foundation courses, aowing them to earn their MBA in one additiona year. THE UNIVERSITY SERVICES CENTER is ony the second LEED Patinum certified coege or university faciity in New York state. The buiding s centerpiece is the circuar, gass-encosed Center for Student Innovation, which serves as a showcase for innovative, mutidiscipinary projects and activities. 14

17 Academic Enrichment THINK FOR YOURSELF. WE LL HELP WITH THE REST. Acceerated dua-degree programs, pre-professiona studies, Honors program, and entrepreneurship these are prominent among many opportunities to enrich and expand your undergraduate experience. Program agreements with Lake Erie Coege of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM). These agreements incude LECOM s schoos of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Denta Medicine. For more information, go to Pre-professiona studies If you are interested in pre-professiona studies (pre-aw, pre-med, and pre-heath professions), RIT has a ong history of preparing graduates for entrance to some of the nation s most prestigious institutions. If you are interested in pursuing aw schoo, you can enro in any major at RIT, and are encouraged to deveop basis skis such as anguage and communication, creative probem soving, a basic understanding of ethica theory and theories of justice, and critica thinking. In addition, you can join Phi Apha Deta Law Fraternity Internationa and/or the RIT Preaw Association. Law schoos attended by RIT graduates incude: Corne Law Schoo, Stanford University Law Schoo, University of Chicago, Boston University Schoo of Law, NYU Schoo of Law, and Emory University Schoo of Law. If your goa is medica schoo or one of the other heath profession (dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, or veterinary) schoos, RIT s premedica studies and pre-heath professions advisory program is avaiabe to you regardess of your major. The advisory program provides you with the guidance, assistance, and information you wi need to compete the admissions requirements for graduate programs in the medica and heath professions. Schoos where our graduates have successfuy been admitted for further study in the medica and heath professions incude Johns Hopkins University, University of Rochester, Stanford University, Tuane University, Georgetown University, and Case Western Reserve. In addition, RIT has Eary Acceptance Honors Program The Honors Program admits approximatey 150 entering freshmen each year. The Honors Program features severa distinctive and compementary components: Honors courses Research and professiona deveopment Compementary earning experiences (annua vounteering and community service projects) Honors advising and mentoring Honors residence Outstanding uppercass students who have distinguished themseves academicay and as contributing members of the campus community aso may appy for sophomore or junior admission to the Honors Program after enroing at RIT. Innovation and entrepreneurship a university-wide initiative RIT has ong been a center for innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. The range of activities is extensive and incudes: RIT Innovation Ha of Fame Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Venture Creations - Student Incubator - RIT Business Incubator Tiger Tank Annua Student Competition RIT 48: Entrepreneuria Boot Camp Entrepreneurs Ha a residentia community devoted to entrepreneurship 15

18 Gobay Recognized WHEN YOU REMAKE THE WORLD, THE WORLD TENDS TO NOTICE. Don t just take our word for it. Our reputation as one of the word s top universities has been acknowedged by many eading coege guides, industry, and internationay respected pubications. As you search for the right university, consider what others have to say about RIT. RIT is bursting at the seams with a myriad of fantastic academic opportunities. Students here greaty vaue the fact that the university maintains a strong focus on innovation. The Princeton Review RIT ranked third nationay as one of the key schoos companies prefer when recruiting and hiring in critica ski areas for the aerospace and defense industries, according to Aviation Week s annua Workforce Study. At both the graduate and undergraduate eves, RIT was in the top 10 in Top 25 Schoos to Study Video Game Design in the 2015 Princeton Review/PC Gamer annua rankings. This is a fast-paced, high-tech schoo for go-getters who aready know where they want to be. After a rigorous education, more than 90 percent of RIT graduates go into the job market, with a significant boost from the schoo s cooperative education program. Fiske Guide to Coeges The Nationa Science Foundation has recognized our Coege of Science as a nationa site for undergraduate research. BusinessWeek named RIT among the top programs in North America. RIT is distinguished for graduating the innovators companies hunger for. The Princeton Review ranks RIT among its 25 Most Connected Campuses for computing resources and ists the university in its 2015 Best 379 Coeges and its 2015 Guide to 353 Green Coeges. RIT is rich in treasures at a price that, with the hep of cooperative education earnings, doesn t send most of the students or their famiies to the poorhouse. Barron s Best Buys in Coege Education For science and technoogy, RIT is a superior choice. RIT aso has an exceent ibera arts program since students must understand both technoogica deveopments and phiosophica and ethica issues presented by technoogy. Guide to 101 Best Vaues in America s Coeges and Universities At both the undergraduate and graduate eves, RIT s industria design program was ranked in the top three of America s Best Architecture & Design Schoos 2012 by Design Inteigence magazine. U.S. News & Word Report magazine has consistenty rated RIT among America s Best Buys in coege education and incuded us in other rankings: RIT has ranked first or second in academic reputation among regiona universities in the North for more than 20 years. RIT has been consistenty recognized among 20 schoos offering the best internship and cooperative education programs. Our Saunders Coege of Business has been ranked among the top five percent of business schoos in the nation. Our Coege of Engineering has been ranked among the top 60 doctora-degree-eve engineering coeges in the nation. The Coege of Imaging Arts and Sciences has severa programs ranked in the top 12 in the country. 16

19 A NEW HAND FOR LUCAS In 2013, Professor John Schu created the onine community e-nable, a group that aims to advance the deveopment of affordabe prosthetic devices for peope around the word ike Lucas. Using 3D printers, open source designs, and a itte bit of ingenuity, Schu and a group of students are heping to advance the quaity and affordabiity of prosthetic devices and make them avaiabe to everyone. After the catastrophic earthquake that rocked Haiti, RIT engineering students deveoped a cook stove that utiizes thermoeectrics and a simpe bower. With its sustainabe, easy-to-use design, the team won honorabe mention in a nationa design competition sponsored by the Environmenta Protection Agency. A team of RIT students and instructors documented the invasion of ionfish in the waters off Bonaire, an isand in the South Caribbean. They conducted a series of dives as part of a study-abroad program in advanced underwater photography and videography. 1717

20 Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festiva EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. Each year, RIT demonstrates its eadership in innovation and creativity by sponsoring the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festiva, a campus-wide event that showcases the innovative and creative spirit of our students, facuty, and staff. We beieve RIT can hep to improve our ives and make the word a better pace. Innovation and creativity are the key ingredients, with technoogy and the arts stirring the formua for an extraordinary future. Innovation and creativity showcase Visitors experience the breadth and depth of RIT through interactive presentations, hands-on demonstrations, exhibitions, and research projects set up throughout campus. Games and mutipe performance stages with ive music and entertainment are aso a hit with visitors of a ages. Each year, more than 400 exhibits, many of them interactive, are viewed by more than 30,000 awed, enightened sometimes astonished spectators. 18

21 The Imagine RIT Festiva demonstrates RIT s innovative and creative spirit to peope of a ages. Innovation is one of our country s ast competitive advantages. Young Americans want to wak to the beat of their own drummer, and their desire to be different is an innate American characteristic. At RIT, we hep students channe that passion in constructive ways and foster the United States eadership in technica innovation and creative ideas for new products and services. RIT President Bi Dester 19

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23 Academic Synergy RIT S COLLEGES A university is more than the sum of its individua coeges. RIT s undergraduate academic majors are offered through our nine coeges. Each is distinctive in character, with the common denominator of a rich tradition of career-focused, technoogica education. Together they offer our students an array of undergraduate and graduate programs and opportunities sedom found in other universities. Coege of Appied Science and Technoogy 22 Saunders Coege of Business 24 B. Thomas Goisano Coege of Computing and Information Sciences 26 Kate Geason Coege of Engineering 28 Coege of Heath Sciences and Technoogy 30 Coege of Imaging Arts and Sciences 32 Coege of Libera Arts 36 Nationa Technica Institute for the Deaf 38 Coege of Science

24 Coege of APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Responsive, innovative, and responsibe. These 21 st century quaities hep our students achieve rewarding careers based on the technoogica and service management offerings of the Coege of Appied Science and Technoogy (CAST). Whether it s used in efficient production in manufacturing, protection of the environment, or the enhancement of customer service at a word-cass resort, technoogy has a tremendous impact on the word today. That s why RIT s Coege of Appied Science and Technoogy offers a range of majors focused on the technoogica appications that improve product quaity, streamine processes, and, in genera, best serve consumers and suppiers aike. Engineering technoogy RIT s Schoo of Engineering Technoogy offers one of the argest varieties of engineering technoogy majors in the nation. Engineering technoogy professionas work in the engineering environment with designers and systems anaysts in probem-soving teams. Our programs teach you to appy existing technoogy to manufacturing, communications, construction, environmenta, packaging, and other engineering probems. Designed with the aid of experts in the fied, each of these majors meets the highest professiona standards, and it shows. A nationa survey of industry experts has ranked RIT s manufacturing engineering technoogy major among the top five in the nation, and our civi engineering technoogy students have exceed in competitions with other universities. Our programs combine academic experience with cooperative education, which requires students to compete 12 months (52 weeks) of paid, professiona experience in industry. The high job pacement record for our graduates proves the vaue of this combination of schoo and empoyment. They find empoyment in such fieds as civi, mechanica, manufacturing, eectrica, or computer engineering, environmenta engineering, teecommunications, audio or product engineering. Environmenta sustainabiity, heath and safety RIT s bacheor of science degree program in environmenta sustainabiity, heath and safety wi prepare you to hep organizations move toward sustainabiity by assessing the impact of their activities, deveoping and impementing poicies and practices, and compying with environmenta aws and reguations. You wi acquire an optimum mix of science, technoogy, and management skis that readies you for empoyment in a new and booming fied. Graduates have an impressive record of success finding interesting jobs with competitive saaries. This major features cooperative education experience, and co-op students aready quaified to take on responsibiities that may yet be unfufied in many organizations have been wecomed by government agencies, nonprofits, and a variety of businesses. Internationa hospitaity and service management The majors and concentrations avaiabe in RIT s Schoo of Internationa Hospitaity and Service Innovation can prepare you for virtuay any career in the hospitaity industry, from trave to hote/resort manager to trave consutant to food marketing representative. A students compete nine months of cooperative education in management-eve training positions at such ocations as Disney Word, the Trump Taj Maha, or The Breakers in Pam Beach. Packaging science Every time you unwrap a new computer game, twist open a ipstick tube, or pop open a can of soda, you are deaing with packaging. Finding the best way to make 22

25 Enroment Undergraduate 1,650 Graduate 350 that game package inexpensivey, keep that ipstick case from cracking, and ensure that the soda can is recycabe is the job of packaging scientists. Your education wi combine cassroom and ab preparation with co-op experience. Packaging science today presents extraordinary career opportunities for our graduates. As a packaging scientist with a bacheor s degree from RIT, you be a eader in a growing fied that bends science, engineering, management, and sustainabiity. Rea experience, rea vaue In our top-of-the-ine faciities, you find teecommunications and embedded systems design abs, CAD/CAM systems, packaging and environmenta testing equipment, an American Airines SABRE reservation system, a student-operated restaurant, a hote and conference center, and much more. Using the same equipment and operating in the same environments as professionas in these fieds puts you ahead of the pack in the job hunt. Cooperative education is either required or optiona in a degree programs in CAST, giving you the added advantage of vauabe rea- word experience. You be an attractive catch for empoyers and demonstrate your vaue as soon as you start working. Digita, IBM, DuPont, GTE, Xerox, Motoroa, AT&T, Hewett-Packard, and the Environmenta Protection Agency are just some of the prestigious empoyers that hire our students for co-op and permanent empoyment year after year. Undergraduate Majors and Options Schoo of Engineering Technoogy Civi Engineering Technoogy Computer Engineering Technoogy Computer Engineering Technoogy Audio Option Teecommunications Option Eectrica Engineering Technoogy Eectrica Engineering Technoogy Audio Option Teecommunications Option Eectrica/Mechanica Engineering Technoogy Environmenta Sustainabiity, Heath and Safety Manufacturing Engineering Technoogy Mechanica Engineering Technoogy Packaging Science Undecared Engineering Technoogy Option* Schoo of Internationa Hospitaity and Service Innovation Internationa Hospitaity and Service Management * An exporatory option for students to determine which major best fits their interests 23

26 Saunders Coege of saunders.rit.edu BUSINESS Business Ready, Day One. Instant access to information, big data, socia media, and the goba economy are forcing companies to be creative and innovate to succeed. As part of a university that bends business, technoogy, science, design, and ibera arts, Saunders offers opportunities rarey found in other business coeges. To succeed in business, you need to be a team payer, think creativey, be strategic, and understand how to buid sustainabe enterprises. A goba perspective, a diverse RIT minors program, and rea-word experiences found at Saunders Coege of Business prepare graduates to be successfu and hit the ground running Day One upon graduation. Biz 1-2 Innovation for Freshmen Freshmen in Saunders Coege of Business exercise their creativity and deveop their inno vative skis through the Biz 1-2 program, a two-course cohort program designed to take ideas from business concept to commerciaization. Unike many other business schoos where students typicay take genera education courses their freshman year, the Biz 1-2 is a cohort-based program that aows business students to estabish vauabe reationships within their program in their first year. The program covers courses such as Ideas and Business Panning, Computer-based Anaysis, Technoogy-enabed Launch, and Commerciaization. Students get a chance to understand what it takes to deveop and impement winning soutions in today s market. The program cuminates with business presentations to the RIT facuty, students, and invited guests. It is a chance for students to show off the work they have done during their first year at Saunders. Components for success Saunders Coege s chaenging and interactive programs give you the skis you need to be successfu in your career. You wi be exposed to a wide range of knowedge through ibera arts and science courses, core business courses, your chosen major, and cooperative education. A dynamic minors program aows you to work in teams with students from engineering, technoogy, art, design, science, and other diverse academic discipines. The coege offers seven undergraduate majors, and students who want to be on the fast track to success can choose the acceerated 4+1 MBA program to compete their BS and MBA degrees in five years instead of six. Choose from seven majors You can appy for admission to one of our seven undergraduate majors or choose our business exporation option and decide on your major during your second year. Saunders major in accounting emphasizes both accounting theory and rea-ife practice. You may taior your program to your interests and enhance your career prospects by choosing from a pubic accounting or management accounting option. Capita markets, risk management, portfoio theory, internationa finance, forecasting, and budgeting these are just a samping of the topics you wi be exposed to in our finance major. Your course work and interaction with experts in finance wi prepare you for a variety of career opportunities. You wi join aumni who are portfoio managers, financia anaysts, oan officers, and currency and securities traders. As companies expand gobay, they seek peope with an awareness of cutura and poitica differences and an understanding of internationa competition and word markets. You wi gain these skis and more in Saunders internationa business major. Our internationa business majors choose a co-major in accounting, finance, management information systems, management, or marketing. Proficiency in a foreign anguage is an integra part of the program, and so is cooperative education a requirement that may be satisfied through foreign work experience, internationa experience with a domestic corporation, or study abroad. With a degree in management you wi gain an understanding of how organizations function and examine the issues of motivation, eadership, job design, group dynamics, and organizationa structure. You wi earn how to approach probems ogicay and make inteigent business decisions. The background you acquire wi be adaptabe to a wide range of organizations and careers. Saunders management information systems major prepares you for careers invoving eading-edge enterprise technoogies and the anaysis, design, and management of computer-based information systems. The curricuum provides students with the systems thinking skis to sove rea-word business probems whie integrating the atest digita technoogies into their soutions. Career options incude business and systems anaysis, management and information technoogy consuting, enterprise systems anaysis, database appication deveopment and administration, network design and administration, Web systems deveopment, and information technoogy project management. Our marketing major wi provide you with knowedge of markets, consumer behavior, marketing research, and marketing strategy. You wi earn to identify customer needs and deveop products, services, and programs to meet those needs. Creative and exciting empoyment opportunities are found in advertising, product management, professiona saes, retaiing, and marketing management. New media marketing is a unique major focusing on the deveopment of strategies and practices to hep organizations better reach and engage onine audiences. It 24