Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private research university in Henrietta, a suburb of Rochester, New York, whose roots run to the Rochester Athenaeum of 1829 and which adopted its present name in 1944, and it is one of only two institutes of technology in New York state.罗切斯特理工学院是位于纽约州罗切斯特郊外亨丽埃塔的私立研究型大学，源头可追溯到 1829 年的罗切斯特文学馆，1944 年改用现名，是纽约州仅有的两所理工学院之一。

It enrolls about 21,000 students drawn from all 50 US states and more than 100 countries, employs more than 4,000 faculty and staff on a 1,300-acre campus of some 237 buildings, and is classified by the Carnegie Foundation among R2 doctoral universities with high research activity.全校注册学生约 2.1 万人，来自美国全部 50 个州和 100 多个国家，1300 英亩校园上有约 237 栋建筑、教职员工逾 4000 人，卡内基基金会将其列为高研究活动 R2 型博士大学。

History

• The story begins with the Rochester Athenaeum, a struggling literary society founded in 1829 by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and associates, and The Mechanics Institute, a school of practical technical training founded in 1885 by a consortium of local businessmen that included Captain Henry Lomb, co-founder of Bausch and Lomb.该校源于两翼，一是 1829 年纳撒尼尔·罗切斯特上校等人创办而经营维艰的罗切斯特文学馆，二是 1885 年由当地商界联盟创办、教授实用技艺的机械学院，联盟成员包括眼镜企业 Bausch & Lomb（博士伦）的共同创办人亨利·洛姆上尉。

• The two institutions merged in 1891 as the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, with The Mechanics Institute treated as the surviving school that took over its own 1885 charter while the Athenaeum's 1829 charter lay dormant.两校 1891 年合并为罗切斯特文学馆暨机械学院，机械学院被视为存续方并承继其 1885 年特许状，而文学馆 1829 年特许状一度搁置。

• From the 1891 merger until 1944 the institution celebrated the Mechanics Institute's 1885 founding in name as well as charter, until in 1944 it became the Rochester Institute of Technology, re-established the Athenaeum's 1829 charter and emerged as a full-fledged research university.自 1891 年合并至 1944 年间，校方沿用机械学院之名并称贺其 1885 年创校，至 1944 年改名罗切斯特理工学院，重新启用文学馆 1829 年特许状，成为名副其实的研究生大学。

• The university long sat in downtown Rochester on a block bounded by the Erie Canal, South Plymouth Avenue, Spring Street and South Washington Street, its art department housed in the Bevier Memorial Building.大学久设罗切斯特市区，占地为伊利运河、南普利茅斯大道、斯普林街与南华盛顿街所围街区，艺术学系曾设于贝维厄纪念楼。

• By mid-century the city site had been outgrown, and in 1959 the New York Department of Public Works announced that the Inner Loop freeway would be built along a path bisecting the campus and requiring demolition of key university buildings.至二十世纪中叶城中原址已经不敷使用，1959 年纽约州公共工程局宣布内环线高速公路将纵贯校园，须拆除多栋重要校舍。

• A donation of 3.27 million US dollars by Grace Watson of Rochester in 1961, later honoured in the name of the dining hall, funded the purchase of a 1,300-acre campus several miles south along the east bank of the Genesee River in suburban Henrietta.罗切斯特名士格雷斯·沃森 1961 年捐赠 327 万美元，后以她命名校餐厅，此款购得亨丽埃塔镇杰纳西河东岸 1300 英亩新校地。

• Upon completion the university moved to the suburban campus in 1968, the year the National Technical Institute for the Deaf admitted its first students after Washington's federal government selected RIT in 1966 as its site.新园 1968 年落成后大学迁往郊区，同年国立聋人理工学院迎来首批学生，该学院系联邦政府 1966 年选定 RIT 为校址而设。

• The National Technical Institute for the Deaf is among the country's oldest higher-education institutions for deaf students, second in founding only to Gallaudet University in Washington, and its sign-language instruction ranks first in the nation, with a three-year track in computing technology and business that feeds into RIT's other colleges.国立聋人理工学院是全美历史仅次于华盛顿高立德大学的聋人高等学府，手语教学居全国之首，其计算机技术与经营三年制课程结业后可转入本校其他学院。

• In 1979 RIT took over Eisenhower College, a liberal arts college in Seneca Falls, New York, but despite a five-year pledge announced its immediate closure in July 1982, the programme surviving one final year on the Henrietta campus before a last graduation at Seneca Falls in May 1983.1979 年 RIT 接管纽约州塞内卡福尔斯的文理学院艾森豪威尔学院，虽承诺维持五年却在 1982 年 7 月宣布即刻关闭，课程于亨丽埃塔续办一年，1983 年 5 月在塞内卡福尔斯补行最后一届毕业礼。

• The microelectronic engineering program created in 1982 was the nation's first bachelor of science degree specialising in semiconductor device and integrated-circuit fabrication and remains the only ABET-accredited undergraduate program of its type in the United States.1982 年设立的微电子工程专业是全美首个以半导体器件与集成电路制造为方向的理学学士，至今仍为美国唯一获 ABET 认证的同型本科项目。

• RIT founded the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science in 1986 and launched the first PhD program in imaging science of its kind in the United States in 1990, together with the country's only bachelor's and master's degrees in the field.该校 1986 年创建切斯特·卡尔森成像科学中心，1990 年开设全美同类首创的成像科学博士项目，其成像科学学士与硕士亦为全国独有。

• RIT launched the first bachelor's program in information technology in 1991, had that degree nationally recognised in 1993, and in 1996 became the first college in the United States to offer a software engineering degree at the undergraduate level.该校 1991 年开设全国首个信息技术学士，1993 年获国家学科认定，1996 年成为美国首个设软件工程本科的院校。

• In 2005 the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research named RIT to lead the University at Buffalo and Alfred University in a microsystems, photonics, nanomaterials and remote-sensing collaboratory that drew more than 35 organisations including Boeing, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Intel, SEMATECH, ITT, Motorola, Xerox and NASA.2005 年纽约州科研学术局指定 RIT 牵头与布法罗大学、阿尔弗雷德大学共建微系统、光子学、纳米材料与遥感合作平台，波音、伊士曼柯达、IBM、英特尔、SEMATECH、ITT、摩托罗拉、施乐、美国航空航天局等 35 家以上机构加盟。

• In 2017 the US Department of Energy selected RIT to lead the Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions Institute, the REMADE institute established under the Manufacturing USA initiative to forge clean-energy manufacturing measures.2017 年美国能源部选定 RIT 主持再制造能源减排研究所 REMADE，该所依制造业美国计划设立，专攻清洁能源制造技术。

• The Global Cybersecurity Institute was founded in 2020, part-financed by a 50 million dollar gift from RIT alumnus Austin McChord that also endowed four student and research chairs, and in 2022 ESL Federal Credit Union added a 3 million dollar naming gift.全球网络安全学院 2020 年成立，校友奥斯汀·麦克霍德捐资 5000 万美元为其主要财源并设四个学生与研究员讲席，2022 年 ESL 联邦信用合作社再捐 300 万美元冠名。

• In 2026 the US Department of the Army awarded RIT a cooperative agreement to establish and lead the Army STEM Education Consortium, a nationwide STEM education and workforce-development effort spanning elementary school through postdoctoral study.2026 年美国陆军部与 RIT 签订合作协议，委托其组建并主持陆军 STEM 教育联盟，这是一项覆盖小学至博士后阶段的全国性 STEM 教育与人才工程。

• As of July 2025 the university's eleventh president is William H. Sanders, formerly dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, who succeeded David C. Munson, retired after eight years at RIT, while Prabu David, formerly vice provost at Michigan State University, was named provost in August 2023 as successor to Ellen Granberg, the first woman in the role.2025 年 7 月起第十一任校长为曾任卡内基梅隆大学工学院院长的威廉·桑德斯，接替任职八年的戴维·芒森，副校长一职 2023 年 8 月由前密歇根州立大学副教务长普拉布·戴维出任，其前任埃伦·格兰伯格为该职位首位女性。

• Provost Thomas R. Plough twice served as acting president, once in February 1991 while M. Richard Rose was on sabbatical with the CIA and again in 1992 between Rose's retirement and Albert J. Simone's installation.教务长托马斯·普劳曾两度代理校长，一次在 1991 年 2 月理查德·罗斯赴美国中央情报局访学期间，一次在 1992 年罗斯退休至艾伯特·西蒙就任之间。

Academics

• RIT is chartered by the New York state legislature and accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, operating as a member of the Association of Independent Technological Universities and the Rochester Area College consortium, whose students may register at partner colleges without tuition.学校由纽约州议会颁状、中部各州学院与学校协会认证，系独立理工大学联合会成员，并为罗切斯特地区高校联盟成员，盟校学生可免费跨校选课。

• The university comprises nine colleges, the College of Art and Design, the Saunders College of Business, the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, the College of Engineering Technology, the College of Health Sciences and Technology, the College of Liberal Arts, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the College of Science, alongside the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and the School of Individualized Study.全校设九学院，即艺术与设计学院、桑德斯商学院、戈利萨诺计算与信息科学学院、凯特·格里森工程学院、工程技术学院、健康科技学院、文理学院、国立聋人理工学院和理学院，另有戈利萨诺可持续发展研究所与个人研习学校。

• Overseas campuses include RIT Croatia in Dubrovnik and Zagreb, formerly the American College of Management and Technology, RIT Kosovo in Pristina, formerly the American University in Kosovo, and RIT Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.海外校区有克罗地亚杜布罗夫尼克与萨格勒布的 RIT 克罗地亚学院，前身为美国管理技术学院，科索沃普里什蒂纳的 RIT 科索沃学院，前身为美国 Kosovo 大学，及阿联酋的 RIT 迪拜校区。

• RIT offers more than 200 academic programs with 13 doctoral programs spanning imaging science, microsystems engineering, computing and information sciences, color science, astrophysical sciences and technology, sustainability, electrical and computer engineering, biomedical and chemical engineering, business administration, physics, mathematical modeling and cognitive science.全校开本科与研究生课程逾 200 项，博士项目 13 个，涵盖成像科学、微系统工程、计算与信息科学、颜色科学、天体物理科学与技术、可持续发展、电机与计算机工程、生物医学与化学工程、工商管理、物理、数学建模与认知科学。

• In 2008-2009 RIT awarded 2,483 bachelor's degrees, 912 master's degrees, 10 doctorates and 523 other certificates and diplomas, and the five most commonly awarded degrees are in business administration, engineering technology, photographic arts and sciences, art and design, and information technology.2008-2009 年度授学位学士 2483 个、硕士 912 个、博士 10 个及其他证书文凭 523 件，授予量最大的五个领域为工商管理、工程技术、摄影艺术与科学、艺术设计和信息技术。

• Enrolment shares by college were 25.4 percent in the college of applied science and technology, 18.0 percent in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, 15.0 percent in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, 13.9 percent in the imaging arts college, 6.8 percent in the Saunders College of Business, 5.7 percent in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 4.3 percent in the College of Liberal Arts and 9.2 percent in the College of Science.各学院学生占比为应用科学与技术学院 25.4%，戈利萨诺计算与信息科学学院 18.0%，凯特·格里森工程学院 15.0%，影像艺术学院 13.9%，桑德斯商学院 6.8%，国立聋人理工学院 5.7%，文理学院 4.3%，理学院 9.2%。

• The full-time undergraduate and graduate programmes long ran on a ten-week quarter system beginning each Labor Day, and RIT converted to a semester system in August 2013, a change that an informal survey showed a majority of students opposed and that the Student Government voted against.全日制本研教学长期行十周学季制，自劳动节起三学期连排至五月末，2013 年 8 月改行学期制，学生与学生会经非正式民调多数反对仍被推行。

• RIT enrolled 18,532 undergraduates and 2,875 graduate students in fall 2025, students hailing from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.2025 年秋在册本科生 18,532 人、研究生 2,875 人，学生来自美国全部 50 州及 100 余国。

• For undergraduate admission in fall 2023 RIT received 24,269 applications, admitted 71 percent and enrolled 18 percent, with median scores of 680 on SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, 690 on SAT Math and 31 on the ACT Composite, and 88 percent of students re-matriculated as second-years.2023 年秋本科收到申请 24,269 份，录取 71%、报到 18%，SAT 读写中位 680、数学 690、ACT 综合 31，第二年续读者达 88%。

• Of the 2018 incoming cohort 28 percent graduated within four years and 71.5 percent within six, reflecting the co-op model, and 91.3 percent of fall 2009 freshmen returned for fall 2010, a school record noted by then president William Destler.2018 级四年毕业率 28%、六年毕业率 71.5%，与工学交替模式相关，2009 年秋新生次年返校率 91.3%，创当时校史纪录。

• RIT's co-operative education program, begun in 1912, is the fourth-oldest in the world and the fifth-largest in the United States, with roughly 3,500 students completing placements each year at over 2,000 businesses, working up to five alternating quarters without paying tuition while keeping full-time standing.其合作教育项目始于 1912 年，为世界第四老、全美第五大的合作教育体系，每年约 3500 学生赴 2000 余家机构实习，最多轮替五段，期间免缴学费而保留全日制学籍。

• Admissions are characterised by the Carnegie Foundation as more selective with higher transfer-in, and retention improved markedly during the tenure of president William Destler.卡内基基金会将其录取定性为渐趋择优且转学生占比高，学生保持率在威廉·德斯特勒校长任内显著改善。

• Library services are based in Wallace Library, whose collections sit beside the Cary Graphic Arts Collection of books, manuscripts and letterpress equipment tracing the history of graphic communication, the RIT Archives documenting more than 180 years of institutional history, and the RIT-NTID Deaf Studies Archive preserving deaf history, art, culture, technology and language.图书馆服务以华莱士图书馆为本部，馆藏含追溯图形传播史的凯里平面艺术收藏、逾 180 年校史的 RIT 档案馆，以及保存聋人历史、艺术、文化、技术与语言的聋研究档案。

• The Vignelli Center for Design Studies was established in 2010 and houses the archives of the Italian designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli as a hub for design education, scholarship and research.维尼耶利设计研究中心 2010 年成立，藏意大利设计师马西莫与莱拉·维尼耶利档案，为设计教育、学术与研究枢纽。

• RIT has collaborated with IBM, Xerox, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Siemens, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and its imaging research spans digital image restoration, remote sensing, magnetic resonance imaging, color science, nanoimaging and astronomical imaging.该校与 IBM、施乐、《罗切斯特民主与纪事报》、西门子、美国航空航天局及国防高级研究计划局广泛合作，成像研究涵盖数字图像复原、遥感、磁共振成像、颜色科学、纳米成像与天文成像。

• Research grants to faculty totalled 105 million US dollars in fiscal year 2025, and in June 2026 Jeff Harris and Joyce Pratt committed 24 million dollars for AI leadership, scholarships and faculty endowments, including a Harris-Pratt directorship for an AI institute scheduled to open in early 2027.2025 财年教师获科研资助 1.05 亿美元，2026 年 6 月杰夫·哈里斯与乔伊斯·普拉特认捐 2400 万美元支持 AI 领军人物、奖学金与教职捐赠，并为拟于 2027 年初挂牌的 AI 研究所设哈里斯-普拉特讲席。

• RIT began a bachelor of science in artificial intelligence in fall 2026 combining programming, algorithms, co-op placements and specialised AI topics.2026 年秋该校首创融编程、算法、带薪实习与专业 AI 课题于一体的人工智能理学学士。

• RIT also operates the university press RIT Press, which publishes works on the institution's own history and innovation festivals.学校自办 RIT 出版社，刊行校史与创新节庆相关著作。

• Two smaller academic units, the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and the School of Individualized Study, grant RIT degrees without maintaining full college faculties.戈利萨诺可持续发展研究所与个人研习学校两处较小学术单位可授予 RIT 学位而不设完整学院教职。

• RIT is governed under a shared-governance model in which the Student Government, the Staff Council and the 43-member Academic Senate bring recommendations to the president through the University Council, the president holding the final decision.学校行共同治理体制，学生会、职员委员会与 43 席的学术参议院经大学理事会向校长提出建议，最终决定权归校长。

Campus

• The 1,300-acre main campus, much of it woodland and fresh-water swamp hosting rare plant species, comprises 237 buildings and 5.1 million square feet of floor space, was listed as a census-designated place in 2020 with 7,322 residents, and was named a Campus Sustainability Leader by the Sustainable Endowments Institute in 2009.1300 英亩主校园多为林地与淡水沼泽，栖息若干珍稀植物，有建筑 237 栋、建筑面积 510 万平方英尺，2020 年列为人口普查指定地点时住 7322 人，2009 年获可持续捐赠基金研究所评为校园可持续典范。

• Some 15,710,693 bricks had been laid on campus by August 6, 2018, earning RIT the students' nickname Brick City, reflected in the annual Brick City Homecoming, early buildings being in brutalism whose severity the warm brick softened.至 2018 年 8 月 6 日校园已用砖约 1571 万块，学生遂昵称为砖城，年度砖城返校节即由此得名，早期粗野主义建筑因暖色砖墙而减其冷峻。

• A walkway called the Quarter Mile links the residence and academic sides of campus, the latter centred on the Infinity Quad with Jose de Rivera's 1968 stainless steel Mobius strip sculpture that casts an infinity-shaped shadow, the former graced by a sundial and a clock.四分之一英里步道连接住宿区与教学区，教学区中庭置何塞·德·里维拉 1968 年不锈钢莫比乌斯环雕塑，日光斜照时投出无穷大符号影，故称无穷庭，住宿区一侧则有日晷与时钟。

• Albert Paley's steel sculpture The Sentinel, 70 feet tall and weighing 110 tons, stands between the Administration Building and the Student Alumni Union and is described as the largest sculpture on any American university campus.阿尔伯特·帕利的钢结构《哨兵》立于行政楼与学生校友会馆之间，高 70 英尺、重 110 吨，被称为美国大学校园最大雕塑。

• Campus art includes Josef Albers's Growth and Youth murals in the George Eastman Building, Larry Kirkland's Principia mural etched into the College of Science atrium floor, Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 1 in the Eastman Kodak Quad and a 24-foot Grand Hieroglyph tapestry by Shiela Hicks, while the RIT Art Collection holds thousands of works grown yearly through the Purchase Prize Program.校园艺术藏有乔治·伊士曼楼内约瑟夫·阿尔伯斯《成长与青春》壁画、科学楼中庭拉里·柯克兰 Principia 花岗岩地刻、伊士曼柯达方庭亨利·摩尔卧像青铜，及希拉·希克斯 24 英尺 Grand Hieroglyph 挂毯，RIT 艺术收藏数以千计并循购藏奖逐年扩藏。

• Along the Quarter Mile stand the 160,000-square-foot Gordon Field House, opened in 2004 and named for Lucius Bob Gordon and his wife Marie, second-largest venue in Monroe County and inaugurated with concerts by Kanye West and Bob Dylan, plus the Hale-Andrews Student Life Center, Ingle Auditorium, Clark Gymnasium, Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena and Schmitt Interfaith Center.四分之一英里沿线有 2004 年启用、以卢修斯·戈登夫妇命名的 16 万平方英尺戈登体育馆，为门罗县第二大场馆，开幕音乐会由 Kanye West 与鲍勃·迪伦献演，另有学生生活中心、英格尔礼堂、克拉克体育馆、里特纪念冰上竞技场与施密特跨信仰中心。

• MAGIC Spell Studios, a 52,000-square-foot games and media facility with animation labs, sound mixing and a sound stage, opened in 2018, and the Student Hall for Exploration and Development followed in 2023 with 22 classrooms, makerspaces and the Sklarsky Glassbox Theater, the largest RIT project since the 1968 move.5.2 万平方英尺的 MAGIC Spell 工作室 2018 年启用，设游戏与媒体动画、混音与录音摄影棚，2023 年落成的探索与发展学生厅含 22 间教室、创客空间与斯克拉斯基玻璃盒剧场，为 1968 年迁校后最大工程。

• A 39,000-square-foot Research Building with 19 laboratories for artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, advanced manufacturing and wet chemistry opened in December 2025.2025 年 12 月，3.9 万平方英尺的研究楼启用，设人工智能、认知科学、神经科学、先进制造与湿化学实验室 19 间。

• The 50,000-square-foot RIT Performing Arts Center followed in April 2026 with a refurbished Barton Opus 234 organ and an outdoor amphitheater, ranking with the SHED among only two primary non-brick buildings on campus.2026 年 4 月，5 万平方英尺的 RIT 演艺中心落成，内置修复后的巴顿 Opus 234 管风琴与露天剧场，与探索与发展学生厅同为全校仅两处非砖砌主楼。

• Student housing spans the residence halls plus four on-campus apartment complexes, Global Village, Perkins Green, Riverknoll and University Commons, and the off-campus 175 Jefferson Road and the RIT Inn and Conference Center.学生宿舍除新生宿舍楼外尚有四处校内公寓，环球村、珀金斯绿地、里弗诺尔与大学公寓，及校外 175 杰斐逊路公寓与 RIT 旅舍会议中心。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place RIT in the 951-1000 band and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 in the 701-800 band, the US News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 list it at world number 721, and the ARWU 2026 main world university ranking does not list the university.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将 RIT 列于 951-1000 区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名列于 701-800 区间，2026-2027 年 U.S. News 世界大学排名第 721 位，而 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录该校。

• In the 2026 edition of the US News national rankings RIT stood 88th among National Universities, improved from 105th in the 2023 edition.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 版全美大学榜中 RIT 列全国第 88 位，较 2023 版的第 105 位前进。

• Business Insider ranked RIT 14th in the Northeast and 36th nationally for computer science, and RIT was placed 24th among the top 30 US universities for computer-science return on investment and in the top 50 for high-school counsellors' college picks.商业内幕将其计算机科学列东北部第 14、全美第 36，另列全美计算机投资回报前 30 中的第 24 位，并入选高中升学顾问首选校全国前 50。

• The Saunders College of Business was ranked 26th in the United States for best online MBA programs by US News and World Report for its online executive MBA, and THE and The Wall Street Journal placed its MBA 54th worldwide in 2019.桑德斯商学院在线 EMBA 被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为全美最佳在线 MBA 第 26 位，其 MBA 2019 年获泰晤士与《华尔街日报》列全球第 54 位。

• The Princeton Review ranked RIT's game design and development program 6th nationally at undergraduate level and 10th at graduate level in 2025, and 4th among the top 75 US universities for video game design.普林斯顿评论 2025 年将该校游戏设计与开发专业列本科全美第 6、研究生全美第 10，并居全美电子游戏设计前 75 校中的第 4 位。

• RIT was ranked among the top 20 universities nationally for excellent co-operative learning and internship programs, and was named a Campus Sustainability Leader in 2009 by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.该校位列全美合作学习与实习项目最佳 20 校，2009 年获可持续捐赠基金研究所评为校园可持续领袖。

• OpenAlex records 31,139 research works carrying 2,002,340 citations for the institution, and faculty research grants reached 105 million US dollars in fiscal year 2025.OpenAlex 收录该校科研著作 31,139 篇、总被引 2,002,340 次，2025 财年教师科研资助额达 1.05 亿美元。

• Eleven RIT alumni, affiliates and faculty members have together won 15 Pulitzer Prizes, the closest thing the institution keeps to a Nobel tally, since no Nobel, Turing or Fields honour is recorded among its affiliates.11 位 RIT 校友、附属人员与教师合获 15 次普利策奖，堪称该校的荣誉计数，因在册人员尚无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖记录。

Student life

• RIT hosts more than 150 student clubs and 10 major student organisations alongside 30 Greek-letter bodies, eighteen fraternities and twelve sororities accounting for 6.5 percent of the student body, five self-governing Special Interest Houses, Computer Science House, Engineering House, House of General Science, House of the Arts and Unity House, and an Air Force ROTC detachment and Army Tiger Battalion whose unit won the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America's Eastern Region award in 2009 and a national MacArthur award in 2010.校园有学生社团逾 150 个、主要学生组织 10 个与 30 个希腊字母社团，18 个兄弟会与 12 个姊妹会占总学生 6.5%，另有计算机房、工程房、普通科学房、艺术房与团结房五个自洽特色宿舍，空军后备军官训练队与陆军虎营分设，虎营 2009 年获创始人爱国者协会东区最佳单位奖、2010 年获全国麦克阿瑟奖。

• Deaf and hard-of-hearing students make up 8.8 percent of the student body, lectures across the university being interpreted into American Sign Language or captioned in real time, a presence that contributes to Rochester's high number of deaf residents per capita.聋人与重听学生占全校 8.8%，课堂普遍提供美国手语传译或实时字幕，这一群体推高了罗切斯特每千人聋人比例。

• RIT's teams, the Tigers, were so named after the undefeated men's basketball season of 1955-1956 and their costumed mascot RITchie was chosen by a 1989 student contest, the college having earlier been represented by a First World War-era terrier called Brownie and by a live Bengal cub named SpiRIT, bought in 1963 with student Tigershares and put down for illness in 1964.校队名虎队，得自 1955-1956 赛季男篮不败，1989 年经学生票选定名人偶吉祥物 RITchie，此前代表学校的是第一次世界大战时期的梗犬 Brownie 与 1963 年学生募虎股购得的孟加拉幼虎 SpiRIT，幼虎 1964 年因病安乐。

• The athletics programme competes in NCAA Division III in the Liberty League since 2011-2012 after long membership of the Empire 8, except the ice-hockey teams, the men reaching the 2010 NCAA Frozen Four as the first Atlantic Hockey side to do so and the women winning the 2012 Division III title 4-1 over Norwich.体育队 2011-2012 年起加入自由联盟打三级联赛，此前长期属帝国八联，惟冰球队例外，男队 2010 年成大西洋冰协首进全国四强之队，女队 2012 年以 4 比 1 胜诺里奇夺三级全国冠军。

• Men's lacrosse won NCAA Division III championships in 2021 with a double-overtime win over Salisbury and in 2022 by 12-10 over Union College, the Gene Polisseni Center ice arena was funded by a 4.5 million dollar gift from B. Thomas Golisano and the Polisseni Foundation in 2011, and Judson Stadium opened in 2026 for soccer and lacrosse.男子棍网球 2021 年双加时胜索尔兹伯里、2022 年以 12 比 10 胜尤宁学院，连夺三级全国冠军，2011 年戈利萨诺与波利森尼基金会捐 450 万美元建吉恩·波利森尼冰上馆，2026 年贾德森体育场启用承办足球与棍网球。

• Tom Coughlin, later coach of the NFL Super Bowl-winning New York Giants in 2008 and 2012, taught physical education at RIT and coached its football team for four seasons in the early 1970s, guiding the club programme's rise to NCAA Division III in his first head-coaching job.日后率纽约巨人两夺超级碗的橄榄球教练汤姆·考夫林早年在 RIT 教体育，并于 1970 年代初出任校橄榄球队主教练四年，在其首次主教练任上把俱乐部队升格为大学三级校队。

• Student media include Reporter magazine, founded as a newspaper in 1951, relaunched in magazine format on 10 January 1969 and monthly since 2013, the student FM station WITR 89.7, and the amateur radio club K2GXT, the oldest club on campus, established in 1952 at the downtown site.学生媒体有 1951 年创刊的《记者》杂志，1969 年 1 月 10 日改版为杂志、2013 年起转月刊，学生调频电台 WITR 89.7 与 1952 年创立于市区老校区的业余无线电社 K2GXT，该社为校内最老社团。

• The open festival Imagine RIT, launched on 3 May 2008 under president William Destler, drew more than 17,000 visitors at its first edition and almost 35,000 a decade later, and the Rochester Game Festival sponsored by the MAGIC Center and ROC Game Dev drew over 1,300 players in 2019.2008 年 5 月 3 日在校长威廉·德斯特勒推动下创办 Imagine RIT 公众开放节，首届访客逾 1.7 万人，十年后近 3.5 万人，MAGIC 中心与 ROC Game Dev 等合办的罗切斯特游戏节 2019 年参会逾 1300 人。

• A student-run 911-dispatched ambulance corps, RIT Ambulance, provides basic life support under New York State certification, while RIT Public Safety officers, licensed under state education law, run a dispatch centre, patrols and a campus call-box network and added long-gun-equipped responders for active-shooter response in 2016.学生自办的 RIT 救护车队持纽约州基础生命支持资质并接入 911 调度，校内公共安全官员依州教育法持证上岗，运营调度中心、巡逻队与报警柱网络，2016 年起配长武器处置枪手事件。

Notable people

• RIT has more than 154,000 alumni worldwide, and eleven alumni, affiliates and faculty have won 15 Pulitzer Prizes between them.RIT 全球校友逾 15.4 万人，校友、附属人员与教师中共 11 人获得 15 项普利策奖。

• Among founders and shapers were Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, who started the 1829 Athenaeum, and Captain Henry Lomb, co-founder of Bausch and Lomb who helped launch The Mechanics Institute in 1885.创办与奠基人物有发起 1829 年文学馆的纳撒尼尔·罗切斯特上校，与博士伦（Bausch & Lomb）共同创办人、1885 年机械学院发起人亨利·洛姆上尉。

• Koo Kwang-mo is chairman and chief executive of LG Corporation, Daniel Carp was chairman of the Eastman Kodak Company, Tom Curley served as president and chief executive of the Associated Press, and Bob Duffy was a lieutenant governor of New York.具光谟任 LG 集团会长兼首席执行官，丹尼尔·卡普曾任伊士曼柯达公司董事长，汤姆·柯利曾任美联社总裁兼首席执行官，鲍勃·达菲曾任纽约州副州长。

• John Resig, creator of the jQuery JavaScript library, Austin McChord, founder and chief executive of Datto whose 50 million dollar gift founded the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, and Roman Yampolskiy, a researcher on AI safety and cybersecurity, are leading technology names on the alumni roll.校友中有 jQuery 库作者约翰·雷西，以 5000 万美元捐建全球网络安全学院的达托公司创办人兼首席执行官奥斯汀·麦克霍德，以及 AI 安全与网络安全研究者罗曼·扬波尔斯基。

• Design and imaging alumni include Steve Matteson, designer of the typefaces Curlz and Open Sans, Jack Van Antwerp, former director of photography at The Wall Street Journal, photojournalist Bernie Boston, and critical theorist N. Katherine Hayles.设计与影像界校友有 Curlz 与 Open Sans 字体设计者史蒂夫·马特森，《华尔街日报》前摄影总监杰克·范安特卫普，摄影记者伯尼·波士顿，以及批评理论家凯瑟琳·海尔斯。

• Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry, granddaughter of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, was a philanthropist and pioneer of child welfare for Black children in Kansas City.废奴主义者弗雷德里克·道格拉斯之外孙女弗雷德里卡·佩里投身慈善，开创堪萨斯城黑人儿童福利事业。

• William H. Sanders, the eleventh president as of July 2025, came from the deanship of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, following predecessors such as David C. Munson, Albert J. Simone and M. Richard Rose.2025 年 7 月上任的第十一任校长威廉·桑德斯出身卡内基梅隆大学工学院院长，前任包括戴维·芒森、艾伯特·西蒙与理查德·罗斯。

• Prabu David, provost since August 2023, arrived from the vice-provostship of Michigan State University, and Ellen Granberg, his predecessor, was the first woman appointed to that office at RIT.2023 年 8 月起任副校长的普拉布·戴维来自密歇根州立大学副教务长任上，前任埃伦·格兰伯格是 RIT 这一职位首位女性。

• Grace Watson, whose 3.27 million dollar gift in 1961 funded the Henrietta land purchase and later gave RIT its dining-hall name, and B. Thomas Golisano, whose name carries the computing college and the sustainability institute and whose 4.5 million dollar arena gift with the Polisseni Foundation built the Gene Polisseni Center, head the university's roll of consequential benefactors.慈善家中有 1961 年捐 327 万美元购得亨丽埃塔校地、后以她命名食堂的格雷斯·沃森，以及冠名计算学院与可持续发展研究所、并同波利森尼基金会捐 450 万美元建吉恩·波利森尼中心的 B. 托马斯·戈利萨诺。