What makes RIT/NTID the best choice for deaf and hard-of-hearing students?
- The Best of Both Worlds
- Academic Quality
- Support Services
- Technology
- Campus Life
- Celebrating Diversity
- Unique Atmosphere
- Athletics
- Rochester, N.Y.
- Successful Grads
1. The Best of Both Worlds
With 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students and more than 14,000 hearing students on campus, RIT/NTID offers you a unique opportunity to enjoy the best of all worlds!
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2. Academic Quality
You can choose from more than 200 programs of study in RIT's eight colleges, including NTID. RIT is consistently ranked among top regional universities in U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges.
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3. Access and Support Services
RIT offers the most accessible higher education community in the world for students with hearing loss. Faculty tutors, advisors, captionists, assistive listening systems and the largest staff of sign language intepreters of any college program in the world are available to help you succeed at RIT.
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4. Technology
RIT is one of the most sophisticated, high-tech campuses in the nation, with extensive wireless computer access, dozens of smart classrooms with state-of-the-art computers and multimedia-based technologies, engineering labs and digital printing presses on campus.
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5. Campus Life
You can join any of more than 100 clubs on campus related to hobbies, politics, sports, and cultural diversity as well as student government and Greek organizations. There also are many work and volunteer opportunities for you on campus.
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6. Celebrating Diversity
You'll find that RIT/NTID is a culturally diverse school, with students from all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries. Our campus community includes a broad mix of students with various skills in American Sign Language, English and spoken communication. You won't find another college like us in the world!
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7. Unique Atmosphere
Imagine a college campus where students and professors discuss theories after class, deaf and hearing students play on the same sports teams, and international students share information about their cultures over lunch. This is the atmosphere you'll find at RIT/NTID.
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8. Athletics
There are dozens of men's and women's varsity, intramural, and club sports for you to join. And, you'll enjoy our state-of-the-art sports facilities, including weight rooms, indoor and outdoor tracks, pools, ice rink, and tennis courts.
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9. Rochester, N.Y.
RIT/NTID is located in a beautiful and safe suburban setting in Rochester--New York State's third-largest city. The area offers a variety of parks, shopping areas, beaches, restaurants, and museums. Rochester has one of the largest populations of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the United States.
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10. Successful Grads
RIT/NTID alumni have jobs in every region of the country and all around the world. Over the past five years, 93 percent of deaf graduates who chose to enter the labor market obtained jobs in business, industry, government, education, and other fields.
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