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The university began as a result of an 1891 merger between Rochester Athenæum, a struggling literary society founded in 1829 by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and associates, and The Mechanics Institute, a Rochester school of practical technical training for local residents founded in 1885 by a consortium of local businessmen including Captain Henry Lomb, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb.
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In 1944, the university adopted its current name of Rochester Institute of Technology. At this point, the RIT campus was still in downtown Rochester, and the engineering college was still in the original Mechanics Institute buildings. In 1968, the RIT moved to a combined campus in Henrietta, New York. The college remains there today and is ...
In 1952, RIT acquired the McKechnie-Lunger School of Commerce in Rochester, which was renamed after E. Philip Saunders in 2006. The college's dean is Jacqueline R. Mozrall. [ 1 ] Hospitality and Tourism and Service Leadership programs were transitioned into the college from the College of Engineering Technology on July 1, 2019 [ 2 ]
Also in 2005, the college established nation's first lab for social computing as part of a new research initiative, the Center for Advancing the Study of Cyberinfrastructure. In addition, McAfee donated more than $1 million in technology to the college to be used as part of a new master's degree program in computer security and information ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, New York: 1824 Private not-for-profit 6,835 $0.677 Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity Rochester Institute of Technology: Henrietta, New York: 1829 Private not-for-profit 16,310 $0.759 Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology: Terre Haute, Indiana: 1874
The RIT Tigers are composed of 22 teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, crew, cross country, cheerleading, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, and track and field. Men's sports include baseball and wrestling.