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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (/ r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər /; RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere.
[6] [7] Lally offers a range of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, with specializations in areas such as business analytics, management, entrepreneurship, and finance. The school places a strong emphasis on research and interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on RPI's strengths in science, engineering, and technology to prepare ...
The history of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) spans nearly two hundred years beginning with its founding in 1824. RPI is the oldest continuously operating technological university in both the English-speaking world and the Americas. [1] The Institute was the first to grant a civil engineering degree in the United States, in 1835.
Rensselaer at Work is the online division of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, operating administratively from facilities in Hartford, Connecticut, since 1955.Until 1997, it was known as the Hartford Graduate Center.
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She was the subject of false claims (made by others, not by Jackson herself) that she invented caller ID and call waiting.
In RPI's 1953 pamphlet, An Entirely Different College, Hibbs defined a professional institute as a college or university that arranged most of its programs of study around occupations or professions. [16] Not abiding to the traditional University system, RPI gained a reputation as a unique institution in conservative Virginia. [17]
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008. The building is named after Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA and graduate of the RPI Class of 1982, who donated $40 million to the Institute in 2004.
Master's Colleges & Universities: Small Programs New York Institute of Technology: Old Westbury, New York: 1955 Private, not-for-profit 7,872 – Master's Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs Oregon Institute of Technology: Klamath Falls, Oregon: 1947 Public 4,260 – Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...