In a nod to the growing globalization of jobs, Rochester Institute of Technology is introducing new undergraduate majors in three languages in the fall, expecting to add at least two others within a few years. The bachelor of science in ...

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Under a plan announced Monday by the United Arab Emirates government, RIT Dubai will get a new campus, expanding the school’s capacity from its current enrollment of just under 600 students to 4,000 by the year 2023. The UAE government ...

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Jeremy Haefner, provost of Rochester Institute of Technology for nearly a decade, is leaving at the end of the school year to take a position at the University of Denver. Haefner, who also holds the title of senior vice president ...

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Students and professors at Rochester Institute of Technology have come up with a free mobile phone app that will allow you to determine the quality—speed and reliability—of your mobile phone signal at any location. For individual consumers of the four major carriers, the information provided by the RIT Cellular Metrics app could be useful for deciding on whether to switch phone service carriers, or whether to wait to watch a movie on the device until the viewer is in a location with a higher-quality signal.

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Several local and regional colleges have made the Kiplinger’s list of 2018 Best College Values. University of Rochester ranked the highest of local schools, at 30th out of 100 private schools and 94th out of 300 schools overall. Among public ...

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  The founder and CEO of a Connecticut data-protection company is giving Rochester Institute of Technology $50 million, the largest donation in the university’s history and one of the largest ever in the Rochester region. Austin McChord, 32, a 2009 ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of Business has made it onto Poets & Quants for Undergrads’ annual list of the top business schools in the country. This is the second year of the Poets & Quants list, and the ...

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Philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano will be honored at Rochester Institute of Technology Friday, Oct. 20, as the university acknowledges his contributions, especially those for people with developmental disabilities. The event Friday afternoon will take place at an exhibit on the ...

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