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Better opportunities.
Bigger impact.
An overview for deaf and hard-of-hearing students
Join our
community of…
scientists Coming to RIT is
about getting access
artists to opportunities
and people who will
innovators support you and
challenge you to
athletes
be your best.
problem solvers It’s about getting experiences
that will shape you and take
you where you want to go.
performers
We are creating the most
researchers powerful, successful network
of deaf and hard-of-hearing
professionals in the world.
creators Join us and help move the
world forward.
filmmakers
doers
makers
Find your fit.
Connect with other students like you.
Diversity at RIT is about students, meaningful connections with classmates,
faculty, and staff with unique identities, faculty, and staff and find a sense of
experiences, and perspectives coming belonging from the minute they step
together to collaborate, create, innovate, on campus.
and thrive.
At RIT you’ll find other students like you,
Here you can be who you are and explore and you’ll discover more about yourself
who you want to be. This community than you ever knew.
will welcome, support, and celebrate you.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students make rit.edu/ntid/fit
RIT caters to both my general needs
and my specific needs as a deaf
student. All campus activities are
inclusive, and it’s incredibly easy to
develop as a person here. I found my
identity at RIT, and I have done things
I had never imagined were possible.
BOBBY MOAKLEY
Environmental Science/Science,
Technology & Public Policy
Boston, Massachusetts
RIT Student Government
President, 2019-2020
At RIT, I’m surrounded by many other
people just like me. I love that there is
such a diverse group of deaf and hard-
of-hearing people here. This university
is so much more than a campus. It’s a
community that I truly feel a part of.
VICKY MOREL
Applied Liberal Studies/Criminal Justice
Cornwall, New York
I decided to travel across the country to RIT
because it offered the right resources to
help me be successful. I like the mainstream
environment. I get access to full communication,
I’m involved in many different clubs and
organizations, and I feel comfortable here.
NELSON PALACIOS
3D Graphics Technology
Hayward, California
RIT bridges the gap between the
deaf and hearing worlds, so I can
grow in both, and it challenges
me to step out of my comfort
zone and try new things.
MICHAELA MULLIN
Computer Aided Drafting Technology
Alameda, California
From here
to anywhere.
No matter what you’re planning next, you can hit the ground running
with an RIT degree. Pursue the degree program that suits you best.
And if you’re unsure about what you’d like to study, we’ll work with you
to discover your passions and unleash your potential.
Jump Start Your Career to a real-world job before you Each year, more than
4,500
You can engage in internships, graduate. Your co-op can offer you
undergraduate research, study abroad, paid professional experience and is a
service learning, and more to gain great way to develop connections and
RIT students complete
leadership experience, global awareness, relationships that can help advance work assignments
and marketable skills that set you apart your career, add depth to your resume, with more than
and make you more marketable.
3,400
in your career or graduate study.
With RIT’s cooperative work RIT’s co-op partners include Apple,
Boeing, Google, Microsoft, and many employers around
experience program, you’ll apply
the world.
what you’re learning in the classroom other Fortune 500 businesses.
Individual Career Guidance NCE staff network with employers across
Employment specialists in the NTID the country to develop opportunities for
Center on Employment will work with deaf and hard-of-hearing students and
you throughout your time at RIT. Services graduates. Two campus-wide career fairs
include employment advising and are held annually, including one specifically
assisting with job search preparation. to recruit deaf and hard-of-hearing students
for co-ops and permanent jobs.
Finding a mentor while mastering microbes
RIT/NTID student Samuel Lum and that led to identifying the genes
his faculty mentor, Robert Osgood, most likely responsible for hospital-
share a passion for research. Lum’s associated catheter infections. Their
background in mechanical engineering working relationship and involvement in
technology and Osgood’s microbiology different research projects at RIT
expertise in studying biofilms were set Lum on his career path.
the perfect multidisciplinary approach
Hit the ground running Abraham Glasser credits his co-op Nicole Pannullo, a biochemistry major, Joan “Jo” Bempong is thankful experiences at Microsoft and NASA is the first hard-of-hearing RIT student she transferred to RIT, and credits for helping him determine that he to be named a Barry Goldwater Scholar. her three co-ops as well as access didn’t want a typical 9-to-5 job. Instead, It is the highest undergraduate award to deaf-oriented researchers and he realized that a career developing of its kind in the natural sciences, mentors for becoming the person accessible technologies for deaf and math, and engineering fields. As an she is today—a leader, entrepreneur, hard-of-hearing people would fulfill a undergraduate research fellow at the and researcher. Texas Instruments passion for research. His participation in National Eye Institute, she learned how was so impressed with this computer the National Science Foundation-funded to think independently as a researcher engineering student’s skills during Research Experience for Undergraduates and gain the confidence in both her her co-op that the compnay helped him home in on his passion. technical and intellectual skills. Her permanently hired her after Glasser earned the 2018-2019 Outstanding career goal is to pursue a Ph.D. and run she graduated. Graduate Award in the bachelor’s degree her own lab in the future. category and is continuing his education in RIT’s computing and information sciences doctoral degree program.
when you graduate.
Christopher Caulfield, a web and Miko Arayata traveled more than 8,000 Sara Blick-Nitko earned an associate
mobile computing graduate, began miles from home to get a degree from a degree in laboratory science technology
his career at Microsoft AI in Seattle college that specializes in working with and a bachelor’s degree in biomedical
as a program manager in the Cloud deaf students. As a design and imaging sciences. She also completed three co-ops
& Artificial Intelligence Division. technology major, he did a co-op where at an environmental science laboratory.
Caulfield credits his success to the he worked as a multimedia designer, Blick-Nitko decided to further her
RIT community that continuously photographer, and videographer. The education in the science field, and enrolled
encouraged him to push his goals. courses in his major applied directly to in RIT’s Bridges to the Doctorate program
“RIT had the overall package…academic the work he did, and his co-op helped to gain additional research experience
support, accommodations, vibrant him build a strong portfolio of original and take advanced scientific courses. She
social atmosphere, and research work that is sure to help him land a job recently graduated with a master’s degree
opportunities, so I could develop upon graduation. Coming to RIT has given in interdisciplinary/professional studies
a strong foundation for success.” Arayata the opportunity to return home with a focus on biology, health systems
with a degree he wanted and the skills administration, and bioinformatics.
necessary to pursue a successful career in She now is pursuing a Ph.D. program in
graphic design. pathology at the University of Rochester.
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135
in-house interpreters
47
real-time captionists
400
trained notetakers
1,355
35,664 hours
hours outside
outside classroom
classroom
82,576 20,501
hours in hours in
classroom classroom
118,000+ 21,000+interpreting hours captioning hours
Access your future.
Access Services and Support § printed/visual aids If you take courses in the other eight
RIT provides one of the most accessible § web-based instructional materials colleges of RIT, you can request access
education communities in the world for services and can choose from among:
§ individual tutoring
deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
In cases where a faculty member’s § sign language interpreting
If you take courses at NTID, faculty communication strategies do not § FM systems
members will communicate directly appropriately meet your needs, you § real-time captioning services
with you using a variety of strategies, can request access services from § notetaking
which may include: the Department of Access Services.
You also will have access to a unique
§ sign language with voice An assigned counselor will work closely system of educational support services
§ sign language without voice with you to help you plan your collegiate such as tutoring by experienced faculty
§ spoken language experience and provide you with tutors, personal and career counseling,
(FM systems are available) personal, social, career, and academic and academic advising.
advising and counseling services.
§ fingerspelling
rit.edu/ntid/accessAudiology and Speech/ § FM/Roger loans § speech intelligibility
Language Services § speechreading and/or listening training § grammar and technical/professional
You don’t have to leave campus for § hearing aid and cochlear implant vocabulary and practice
audiological and speech/language adjustments § communication strategies for work-
services. RIT/NTID in-house audiologists related interactions/job interviews
§ troubleshooting, repairs, and upgrades
and speech-language pathologists
§ presentation skill development
are certified by the American Speech-
An additional advantage is discounted and practice
Language-Hearing Association and are
pricing for new hearing aids and § use of current mobile applications as
specifically trained to work with deaf
accessories. You also can purchase communication tools
and hard-of-hearing individuals.
batteries, custom sound/swim plugs
and earmolds, and other supplies. The Speech & Language Center offers
Audiology
equipment and software that provides
The Audiology Center offers a variety
Speech/Language visual feedback for production and
of free services including:
The Speech & Language Center offers facilitates conversational practice.
individualized services, and can focus
§ hearing tests on a variety of areas, such as: rit.edu/ntid/css
§ consultationsAn investment
that pays.
When it comes to helping deaf and hard-of-hearing students graduate
and get jobs, there is no better place than RIT.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing RIT alumni thrive in Selected national and international
all economic sectors companies that have hired RIT/NTID
students and graduates:
> BNY Mellon > Solar Turbines
building8 briefcase building9 book5 building7 > Caterpillar, Inc.
> Defense Finance and
Accounting Service
>
>
>
Tesla Motors
Texas Instruments
Toyota
> Dow Chemical Company > Tufts University
Business and Education and Government > General Electric > U.S. Department
Industry Non-Profit > Google of Defense
77 % 16% 7%
> IBM > Whirlpool
> Lockheed Martin > Yahoo!
> Merck
> Microsoft
> Monroe County Medical
Examiner’s Office
> NASA
> National Institutes
Deaf and hard-of- of Health
Each year, on hearing RIT grads > Naval Supply
average, more than are in demand. Systems
Command
180 95
deaf and hard-of-hearing
%
of students who seek
students complete jobs after graduation
cooperative work find one within a year.
assignments with
employers throughout
the country.Higher career earnings
According to a study conducted with the Social Security Administration, deaf and hard-of-
hearing RIT graduates had higher career earnings than their deaf and hard-of-hearing peers
who attended other postsecondary institutions.
Median Salary
178 %
at Age 50*
*Median salary at age 50 according
to a study conducted with the Social
more Security Administration.
95
% more
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing RIT Graduates
(Bachelor’s)
Average Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing RIT Graduates
Salary (Associate)
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Graduates of
Other Postsecondary Institutions
Research shows that deaf and hard-of-hearing students who attend
RIT are significantly more likely to earn a degree than deaf and hard-
of-hearing students who attend other postsecondary institutions.†
† 44% of deaf and hard-of-hearing RIT/NTID students from the incoming classes of 2010-2012 earned a
degree. Of deaf and hard-of-hearing students who considered RIT, but chose to enroll at other mainstream
postsecondary institutions in the same time period, only 28% earned a degree.9,500+
deaf and hard-of-
hearing RIT alumni
Exceptional
value
Because RIT receives 2021-2022
Tuition Comparison
special federal support,
students who are deaf
or hard of hearing pay
less than one-half of
RIT’s regular tuition rate.
In addition to the tuition reduction, you’ll
have a full array of financial aid options
$52,030 $18,330
to help you cover the cost of education,
RIT tuition RIT tuition for deaf
including scholarships, grants, loans, state- and hard-of-hearing
based Vocational Rehabilitation support, and students enrolled in any
Supplemental Security Income assistance. undergraduate program
(U.S. citizens only)
rit.edu/ntid/affordableexcellence
By the numbers
$ 19,429 90
average financial aid
%
of undergraduate deaf and
$ 20.8m
in financial assistance last year
per domestic deaf or hard-of-hearing students from all sources for deaf and
hard-of-hearing student receive financial aid hard-of-hearing studentsDon’t just take our word for it.
Each year, RIT is § U.S. News & World Report: Ranked 33rd
among “Best Value Schools (2021).”
recognized by several § Princeton Review: Named among “Best
Value Colleges for 2021.” Only just over
external guides and 1 percent of four-year colleges qualify for
the annual list.
rankings for its value § Money Magazine: Named among “The
50 Colleges that Add the Most Value.”
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